What Handgun Reloading Did You Do Today?

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Picked up a Rock Island, 1911 38super, the other Day...
NOE 357-135, with a Starting load of Bullseye....At 20yds off Sand bags...Nice!!
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I love that feeling of shooting my reloads. I load 9mm, for me, it's a weekly process. I only load 100 at a time for the range on Sundays. I wet tumble my spent casings from Sunday Shooting. I let them dry for a couple of days. I deprime the on Wed or Thurs and on Saturday's I load em up. I love it! FYI, I'm very new to this, I just bought my first gun ever in my life in June 2020. Reloading is the hobby I was looking for. Very Rewarding:)

Mixed Brass casing loaded with 5.0 GR. CFE Pistol / 124 HP Extreme copper plated Bullets / OAL 1.075
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.44 Mag, 200gr Missouri Bullet's hard cast RNFP, 23.0gr Ramshot Enforcer, OAL- 1.570, and,
.44 Mag, 300gr Missouri Bullet's hard cast TCFP, 17.0gr Ramshot Enforcer, OAL- 1.595
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I loaded 100 rounds last night on my Lee Value Turret with the Auto drum.
5.1 grains CFE Pistol powder/ CCI 500 Primers / 124 Gr. Copper Plated HP / OAL 1.080
But OAL varies from various cartridges.
Thank you for any advice!
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I reloaded 96 rounds of 45acp on my Load Master. with Hornady XTP 200 gn. I have 2 cartridges that I messed up on and have to pull the bullets. The other 2 I have no earthly idea where they are. At the price of these things it is driving me crazy trying to figure out where those two little buggers went to. I guess I will figure it out, sometime I am sure they will jump out and say surprise here we are. :D
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Loaded 30 Lee 200 SWC 45 acp and 20 Lee RN 230 grain 45 acp cast bullets 4.3 Grain BE
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100 rounds of 9mm on my Breech Lock Challenger.

Berry's 124gr non-HB plated bullet on top of 4.1 grains of HP-38 in a range pick up Federal case with Federal small pistol primer.

Did 10 test rounds about a week ago and they did well out of my S&W SW1911.

I think this will be "my" load. But, I do have 100 Hornady 147gr XTP bullets I'm going to have to do something with.

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you can just send em My way... pretty short on bullets round here...!!!
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ryanr256 wrote:
But, I do have 100 Hornady 147gr XTP bullets I'm going to have to do something with.

-Bob

If you have some AA7 powder load those xtp's over 6.5gr with an OAL 1.15. That's 2 tenths UNDER max and shoots very well. Start is at 6.0 so you have some room to work.
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Is it inappropriate to ask about your load data recipes? I'm very interested to hear about your Powder and OAL details. If so, Sorry.
Thank you for any advice!
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