Lee Loader

Having been hooked on cast boolits in my MG 336 30-30 for the last couple of years (thank you to the enablers that prodded me into loading cast for the 30-30) I haven't slowed down. Pistol powders have become my favorite since my shooting is almost all from the bench now, and Unique has seemed to fit in perfectly with the 30-30 loads. While doing other things around the loading area this morning I ran across a baggie with 30 pieces of brass ready to load and had 30 Rim Rock 165 gr bevel based boolits already given their additional dose of LLA …. so, those got their little dose of 9 gr of Unique.

Then tumble lubed (LLA) another batch of boolits for the 30-30 and for the .45 auto. I don't care how much lube the commercial casters pack into the grease grooves, I'm still giving them a nice thin coating of LLA.

Also got out the "seamstress board", cutting wheel and steel straight edge and cut out a big batch of 2"X2" cleaning patches from my stash of worn t-shirts.

jd

Glad to see you at work!

mr surveyor wrote: Also got out the "seamstress board", cutting wheel and steel straight edge and cut out a big batch of 2"X2" cleaning patches from my stash of worn t-shirts.

jd

I do the same thing.

mr surveyor wrote: Then tumble lubed (LLA) another batch of boolits for the 30-30 and for the .45 auto. I don't care how much lube the commercial casters pack into the grease grooves, I'm still giving them a nice thin coating of LLA.

Also got out the "seamstress board", cutting wheel and steel straight edge and cut out a big batch of 2"X2" cleaning patches from my stash of worn t-shirts. jd

100% agree, LLA & old t-shirts. Can't beat either one.

looks like we're a bunch of cheap old pharts. lol

jd

I started on a new lot of PPU brass for my SMLE Scout. Going to load another 50. I took the time to make a comparison of primer pockets and the work it takes to uniform them based on whether they passed through the APP Swagging or not. The is a huge difference. Those that didn't go through the APP take about three minutes to bevel and uniform. Those that went through the APP, take no more than 30 seconds with little effort. This reinforces my thoughts that the APP was worth its weight in gold and also, that I can stop the beveling and uniforming of my pistol brass before it heads to Load-Master priming.

Should finish up this today...

Put together a ladder for the Hornady 240 gr FTX Mag for the 450 Bushmaster using Lil'Gun. With all the local ranges temporally closed don't know when I'll get to shoot them.

Make smoke,

Ohio3Wheels wrote:Put together a ladder for the Hornady 240 gr FTX Mag for the 450 Bushmaster using Lil'Gun. With all the local ranges temporally closed don't know when I'll get to shoot them.

Make smoke,

Who else uses Lil'Gun? I have for 357 mag in a revolver with reasonable results until I got to above 11.5 grains and then it had such wide velocity fluctuation that I stopped shooting. I was working up the load while "negotiating" with myself over a sweet deal on an 1873 carbine as well as trying to duplicate the ballistics of the 38 Special "Police" load. I haven't got back to that experiment (204 grain hard cast in a 38 Special case).

As I have time and energy I've been trying to move my H110 loads to Lil'Gun. I haven't got to the 357 yet as I've got a lot loaded and I've not been shooting it much, maybe this spring or summer I'll get to it.

Make smoke,

I kinda played hookey from work today so I loaded up a few .45 auto rounds Then had chores to do and had plans to load up a batch for the 30-30. Since RD and a bunch of other long time cast bullet lever gun loaders (typical enablers) got me totally hooked on the cast 30-30 loads, I can't stop playing with them danged things with a dose of pistol powder. Had the brass already sized, expanded and primed sitting out, the Oregon Trail True Shot 170 gr GC bullets ready to go, AA#7 sitting out with all the tools …. then the more serious half conned me into making the trip to the grocery store with her. Knowing the current situation I figured it would be good for her to have an armed guard escort for that excursion, just in case she was able to find a couple rolls of toilet paper left on a shelf. Wow, I wouldn't have believed I'd ever see so many empty shelves in what has always been the best stocked store I can ever remember here. I think I'd be much better off if I'd just begged out of that trip and stayed and finished loading the 30-30 rounds. There's still tomorrow though …. I hope

jd