I have a 5 gallon bucket of federal 38 special once fired to work on next.
(Posted this over on the "Did you go shooting" thread. Then I figured it would be better here.)Not terribly surprised by that one. I just finished a ladder to shoot tomorrow. Will use it as a baseline and ask Santa for the rest of the equipment to neck turn .223. Good thing Santa gets paid Friday.!!!!!
Well this was a few weeks ago. But I had hemmed and hawed for a couple years about the Inline Fabrication reverse rotation case ejector for the Lee Classic Turrent. During the “Black Friday weekend” I finally caved and ordered it..
Hadn’t been in the reloading mood in months but was all excited to play with this new toy.... Or so I thought. I’m going to blame the one too many beverage/late night timing of my order. But I fat fingered it and got the wrong item.
What showed up was the Lee Breechlock Classic Cast ejector system. I am sad... I call them up and explain the mistake I made. Begin the return process, then it dawns on me I have the single stage I ordered parts for accidentally... mention out loud to the fella I’m on the phone with a inline fab I have one but idk what I’d need it for.
This guy proceeds to mention exactly what I use mine for. Which is resizing rifle brass. Boom mind blown. It never occurred to me to have an “auto eject” on my single stage. It halves my time lol. Instead of remove sized brass, insert new, repeat. It’s insert new, cycle, repeat
So I kept that kit plus ordered what I meant to. That jerk at inline fab had me sizing every piece of brass I own lol. Now that the kit I meant to order is in. I gotta switch around the dies and play with that too
Oh wow, I am gonna get this in my life.
Prepping 223/556 brass is an absolute PITA.
Sorted and cleaned the brass from my trip to the range today. Took my revolver apart to clean/lube since it has not been out of the safe for a few years. Does anyone recognize this? @JohnFreeman you don’t get to guess.
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I feel honored.You've seen parts of it I never saw.
That's an important firearm. It's the only pistol I've ever sold!
Made my maiden voyage into the world of reloading with some .223 on a single stage today thanks to a good friend and mentor. Going to be ready for Service Rifle come the new year
Sorted and cleaned the brass from my trip to the range today. Took my revolver apart to clean/lube since it has not been out of the safe for a few years. Does anyone recognize this? @JohnFreeman you don’t get to guess.
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LOL. You've probably run into a few of those over there, haven't you. I had not shot this one in a while, and it took me a little bit to remember how to work the wonky extractor. And I forgot how bad the DA trigger pull was, felt like 15lbs.Yeap, I recognize that 7 shooter.
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Actually haven't run into any of them. TT33 or Webley's on the other hand.LOL. You've probably run into a few of those over there, haven't you. I had not shot this one in a while, and it took me a little bit to remember how to work the wonky extractor. And I forgot how bad the DA trigger pull was, felt like 15lbs.
I had determined that the bullet jump in my 20" Wylde AR was about 0.130" when loaded to mag length. So, I worked up some loads with the OAL at 2.330" (the longest that will fit in a modified mag) and also 2.370" (single loaded only, 0.020" off the lands). At the same time I created those test loads, I also loaded my normal precision load at 2.260" as a control group. I did not modify a mag yet since I first wanted to see how they worked, so I single loaded all of them by hand.
Shot them yesterday at Frontline. I was grouping right around 1.0" with my control group. I've done better, but this seems to be about normal lately. Then I went to the test loads, and the the ones loaded to 2.330" were about half the group size, the best being 0.4" @ 100 yards. The longer ones were not quite as good but still better than my control group. I would prefer the shorter ones anyway. I was very happy with that. So, I will be looking around for some 10 round mags that I can modify by notching the front for the longer bullets.
Not exactly sure what your question is.Wow, big move with seating depth. Obviously your Cartridge base to ogive (CBTO) increased the same as OAL assuming using the same bullets, but I am curious as to what your jump to lands is based on CBTO rather than OAL.
Not exactly sure what your question is.
I cleaned some brass, semi-re-arranged my extremely small ammo stash and hand-made a modified-case for .224 Valkyrie for my Hornady overall length gauge:
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So I am preparing to do the same for 7.62x54R. Any tips, especially for centering the hole in the primer pocket would be appreciated. I am concerned the bit will grab the case and make it off center even on a drill press.
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