FatboyFlash
Senior Member
Switched my 1050 over to 9mm this morning. I loaded about 30 rounds for chrono and accuracy tests.
I hung a 70" 4K TV.
S&B, I live dangerously, they take 135pf just fine.I read somewhere that someone had found brass-washed steel cases with a CBC or S&B headstamp, I can't remember which it was. I guess I need to find a big magnet to pass over the piles of brass.
Once I find a load that works well, making production runs of it is almost boring. Almost.
"But I don't make the wine."
Did you try lee first. They have been shiping replacement parts for freeBroke the handle/lever on the loadmaster. Ordered a new one from Titan. Ordered new yoke pins as well, figure I might as well rebuild it while its apart.
NopeDid you try lee first. They have been shiping replacement parts for free
Dangit!!! I did NOT need to see that.Whoever told me to buy a Co-Ax to load precision rifle ammo is my new hero! Sooo smooth! If they made a progressive press, I’d have a Dillon for sale!
Dangit!!! I did NOT need to see that.
Whoever told me to buy a Co-Ax to load precision rifle ammo is my new hero! Sooo smooth! If they made a progressive press, I’d have a Dillon for sale!
Yep. Last couple things I needed they sent me for just the cost of shipping.Nope
I learned not to tumble 9mm with 45. I had way too many 9mm stuck in 45 cases with walnut media.
Throw some 40 in it'll be fun.I learned not to tumble 9mm with 45. I had way too many 9mm stuck in 45 cases with walnut media.
It wasn't too bad, only a few hundred pieces so maybe 3 dozen nested pieces of brass. I'll stick with sorting my brass first vs dumping a range pickup bag in the tumbler.You didn't have plans for tomorrow anyway. Did you?
That's one that one day you will relate on this forum and follow it with, "ask me how I know".
Sorted a couple thousand cases of range pickup, mostly 9, 40, and 223.
Loaded 100 133s over 3.6gr CleanShot in 9mm, and filled primer tubes for more.
Dry tumbled 500? 45acp cases, sorted 1k into LPP/SPP
Decided to try wet tumbling, that was dumb. Now I've always been content, maybe even happy with horribly tarnished/dingy brass, the kind of stuff that people would assume had been there for years if it ever came under scrutiny, but the spider nests have been giving me fits lately causing powder spills and general obnoxiousness, plus that dingy brass is just hard to find in my ranges dead weed bay. So anyway a trip to Harbor Freight, on 20% coupon and $48 dollars later I have a dual drum tumbler, I was content to order pins later, then about 2100 I decided pins are dumb and put 15oz of water, an ounce of vinegar, three pumps of dishsoap a pinch of salt and three handfuls of nine in each and let 'em roll. Three hours later once the mass of foam was cleared (may have been a little heavy with the detergent) I had near new looking brass, and I like it, a lot. Problem it's geologically slow and I'm not even drying it yet. I may have to fabricate something with a higher capacity.
Problem it's geologically slow and I'm not even drying it yet. I may have to fabricate something with a higher capacity.
loaded 1000 9mm yesterday and will do another 1000 or 2 this morning.
Not sure what the difference is, but there's a PTX available from Mr. Bulletfeeder for Hornady, I am guessing it is more cast/coated friendly. Ben Stoeger's Pro Shop has them. They don't come cheap.Well yesterday I finished up another chunk of the pistol brass cleaning backlog. There are 3,000 45acp and 1,000 45LC on towels in the garage ready to be boxed up.
Today will be about getting the LNL setup for 45acp and running the first batch. Having a bullet feeder and preferring the Lyman M style expanding die (I believe now also implemented by Redding and RCBS, but not available in Hornady PTX bushings) I already want a press with more stations! Yes, I’m over thinking it.
It takes about 40 minutes per thousand. I timed myself for an hour and had loaded about 1600. I'm getting ready to switch it back to .40 to load some 165gr and a friend is coming over this afternoon to load some .40.With that new 1050 set up, what did you do with the other 23 hours of you day? More time to shoot? More time to load different calibers? More time to rake the leaves? (if the latter, don't tell me).
Seriously though, you have had it running for long enough to be getting proficient with it. How long does it take to do 1K? I only ask so as to begin my justification process by moving it from a "naw, don't need one" to "well, that wouldn't suck", to "what if I..."
You know the drill.