who's reloading tonight?

[medalguy]

Finished off 600 rounds of 5.56mm for the M16. Now we need a nice cool day to go to the BLM area and pop off a few. Too hot today and no breeze.

[JLA]

I gotta do some five-five-sixers tonight. My FIL has an itchy trigger finger and a hungry Rem 700 Tactical..

[jonboyc]

Just finished up a hundred 9mm's on my Lee single stage. I'm almost having as much fun making the ammo as shooting it.

[the wolf]

Yep I got a basement.. always stays cooler there.. still needs some improvements on the storage and benches add on soon. It can get darn cold during the winter time.
I got the results back from a pal who use 221 fireball. I had set up 50, 50.4 and 50.6 grains of H4198 with 50 gr v-max bullets.. the 50 and 50.4 dead on in center tight group, 50.6 is 1 inch high above dead-eye. the 60 gr was hitting 3 inch low.. this was set at 100 yds.
soon will be back at the reload bench once I get my woodpile chop up.

[JLA]

If you have 50.0 and 50.4 gr charges grouping together, you have accidentally, and quite luckily i might add, hit a low and high node (google OCW load method) with those 2 loads. The ideal load for that rifle/cartridge/bullet/powder combo will be 50.2 gr H4198..

See there, advance reloading skillz and you didnt even know you had them..Nice work Wolf.

[gdmoody]

I thought about reloading this afternoon, but just didn't make it out there! Way too hot out there in my reloading building.

[sting75ray]

Originally Posted by gdmoody

I thought about reloading this afternoon, but just didn't make it out there! Way too hot out there in my reloading building.

I agree. I came home from work, ate supper and made the mistake of sitting down in my recliner.

[JLA]

I make that mistake almost daily..

Like yesterday, it was about noon:30, I laid down with the wife for a 30 minute nap and got up 4 hours later

[the wolf]

Originally Posted by JLA

If you have 50.0 and 50.4 gr charges grouping together, you have accidentally, and quite luckily i might add, hit a low and high node (google OCW load method) with those 2 loads. The ideal load for that rifle/cartridge/bullet/powder combo will be 50.2 gr H4198..

See there, advance reloading skillz and you didnt even know you had them..Nice work Wolf.

thanks yep I am surprise I got the skills for it.

[the wolf]

ah the ocw load information.. something I didnt know about.. I tried to copy off the site.. it wont let me.. I would like a print copy where I can read and study along with relaoding.

[JLA]

It wont let me cut and paste either, you have to print from your browser.

[jonboyc]

Here's about 8 hours work over the last 2 nights. I love this stuff.

[JLA]

very nice. I like shiney new ammo..

[todd51]

Oh man, I am drooling all over the key board.

[cpttango30]

I cleaned up my bench and moved my dillon over about 6" so I had some more room on the right hand side.

Tomorrow night is a loading session for 100 308 175gr SMK over 43.0 gr Varget lit off by some Wolf Large Rifle Primers.

[David8989]

Originally Posted by cpttango30

I cleaned up my bench and moved my dillon over about 6" so I had some more room on the right hand side.

Tomorrow night is a loading session for 100 308 175gr SMK over 43.0 gr Varget lit off by some Wolf Large Rifle Primers.

I'm so jealous! I'm out of town so my 100 .308 168gr AMAX's have to wait to be loaded till monday

[quigleysharps4570]

Haven't done much around here lately. Plenty of empty brass of all calibers, but no ambition. Nephew was back on leave this past Wednesday so I loaded up him a box of 300 win mag and that was it.

[garydude]

Originally Posted by jonboyc

Here's about 8 hours work over the last 2 nights. I love this stuff.

Absolutely Beautiful jonboyc;

I also like your security setup for guarding your stash!

[jonboyc]

Originally Posted by garydude

Absolutely Beautiful jonboyc;

I also like your security setup for guarding your stash!

Thanks, he looks mean and his name is Zeus but his nick name is Wussy and if you look at him wrong he'll squeal and run away. I saved him from a home where he was being used as a bait dog for fighting dogs. I went over there to check out a gun that was posted in a classified on ******** and left with a pitbull mix, and then I called animal control. He's a real sweetheart but does have one mean bark.

[gdmoody]

I did some trading last week and got about 2 or 3 hundred primed .380 brass with the .380 Russian Makarov I got. I can't wait for my off days (Tue/Wed) this week so I can load a bunch of them.

[cpttango30]

I got 50 out of 100 loaded last night.

[the wolf]

wohooo.. finally got the best load for my pal 221 fireball and thanks to JLA on the information on it. its 15.2g of H4198 with vmax 50 gr bullet. tightest group at 100... now I have to start working some of my 357 mag. I am already set with my 3006 and 270 cal for deer season.

[JLA]

[JohnTheCalifornian]

Figured I would ressurect this thread and show what I have been up to the last 2 nights.

357 Sig, 124 Grn FMJ

[garydude]

Nicely done John. You are one of the few that I have heard of loading sig 357. Can you tell us how it would be different from say loading 40's?