What Handgun Reloading Did You Do Today?

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Fyodor wrote:On Thursday I realized I'm out of stock. So I needed to sit down and quickly make 600 .38spl and 150 .44-40...
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Been doing this, and tumbling, for ten hours now. Had a huge stock of range brass, but no loadable cases.

Must be about:
2000 .38spl
2500 .45Auto
1500 .44-40
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Fyodor wrote:[BBvideo 560,340][/BBvideo]

Been doing this, and tumbling, for ten hours now. Had a huge stock of range brass, but no loadable cases.

Must be about:
2000 .38spl
2500 .45Auto
1500 .44-40
Fyodor, I have a turret head with only a decapper on it. I wash all the dirt off the brass with Dawn dish detergent in a tumbler basket and dry it. Then I dump it in the case feeder.
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The four way case kicker speeds up that process incredibly. And the drilled out turret, that doesn't index.
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Ranch Dog wrote:Fyodor, I have a turret head with only a decapper on it. I wash all the dirt off the brass with Dawn dish detergent in a tumbler basket and dry it. Then I dump it in the case feeder.
Ugh... I forgot to say that this is with the Load Master.
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More like unloading. Nothing like the firm smack of a 1911 to clear a bit of the fog. Ran a selection of my 1911s mostly with remans I buy at the range.

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Ohio3Wheels wrote:More like unloading. Nothing like the firm smack of a 1911 to clear a bit of the fog. Ran a selection of my 1911s mostly with remans I buy at the range.

Make smoke,
I use the .454 for that...Nuthin makes Ya forget about Everything and Concentrate on that front Sight like that old Darlin does...
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Loaded up some Lyman 160g WC's with BullsEye for My old Colt 'Official Police' .38special.
At 25ft still Shoots sweet as ever....
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Just finished a little session with the .45 auto stuff .... loaded another 50 round test batch of the RimRock 230 gr RN with 8.2 gr of AA#5. Then finished off by priming 300 pre-prepped pieces of brass to be ready for the next chance I get to re-load.


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I may have to forfeit my "Boolit Caster" card, but I ran across some Hornady 240 gr. XTP bullets in my component cabinet and loaded them over a light (starting ) load of Universal. I prefer lighter loads for my 629 and normally use a 240-250 LSWC loaded light in it (it has an "unpinned" barrel and since I got it back from being repaired at the factory, I keep the loads down)...
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