What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Vaquero]

I haven't been doing anything on the bench lately, due to the wind, rain, and large tree branches hanging over my range, so no unloading of rounds. I don't want to say that I'm all caught up, but it's darn close. I've been in the same area however (garage) on my Ham Radio. Thankfully I have that. Here's a picture of my station.
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Are there still a large group of folks into ham radio? My brother and I were into the CB radio action back in the late 60's.
He worked at a CB radio repair shop and had his 1st class FCC license when he was 18. He also worked at various radio stations
as engineer on the night shifts. He used to build power amplifiers for some CB guys back then.
One time back then we were talking to some guy in the Virgin Islands on a 5 watt walkie talkie hooked up to a 100 watt amp
at night when the skip was good!

Back in the 70's dad was heavy into the CB"s, the mobile unit he had was BA and could really talk.
He'd get up early and go sit in his Dodge van with coffee and talk to people all over. He talked about the skip also.
It was more powerful than his base sat.

More good memories of dad. Thanks guys.

RP

[Vaquero]

Xtreme Bullets emailed me with the bullets I ordered on the way. I also pulled some bullets out of some 41 mag cases that I have been having issues with.

Hey Al, where ya been? haven't seen ya in a min.
What issues with the 41's and which bullets?

RP

[Rifletom]

I haven't been doing anything on the bench lately, due to the wind, rain, and large tree branches hanging over my range, so no unloading of rounds. I don't want to say that I'm all caught up, but it's darn close. I've been in the same area however (garage) on my Ham Radio. Thankfully I have that. Here's a picture of my station.
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Dang moe, you have yourself a heck of a set up! Like you said, you can talk anywhere in the world. That's impressive.

[dasmoeturhead]

Heck yeah Al, I could always put it to good use, but I'd feel better if I sent these 45 LC Factory Cowboy action stuff that I've had in the armory for awhile.

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[dasmoeturhead]

I haven't been doing anything on the bench lately, due to the wind, rain, and large tree branches hanging over my range, so no unloading of rounds. I don't want to say that I'm all caught up, but it's darn close. I've been in the same area however (garage) on my Ham Radio. Thankfully I have that. Here's a picture of my station.
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Dang moe, you have yourself a heck of a set up! Like you said, you can talk anywhere in the world. That's impressive.

Thank you.

[dasmoeturhead]

I haven't been doing anything on the bench lately, due to the wind, rain, and large tree branches hanging over my range, so no unloading of rounds. I don't want to say that I'm all caught up, but it's darn close. I've been in the same area however (garage) on my Ham Radio. Thankfully I have that. Here's a picture of my station.
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Very nice setup. Moe
Have fun.
I've got the same wind, rain, trees, branches to deal with. Seems
to never end.

Thanks Larry. Under these trees ain't no fun. Maybe one of them cowboy hard hats would work. I should have kept mine when I worked in the field. Lol

[fortyshooter]

Heck yeah Al, I could always put it to good use, but I'd feel better if I sent these 45 LC Factory Cowboy action stuff that I've had in the armory for awhile.
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I have a box of those too but only 12 left. Had them since 2011.

[fortyshooter]

Well moving on to load up 15 rounds using same 230 lead bullet but with the .050 shorter Hornady FTX case and 25.9 gr. of MZ.
The shorter case places the bullet at just touching the powder which is what Alliant recommends. I then can seat the bullet at or just a hair below the step before the nose radius begins and a medium crimp over top. COL works out to 1.540. 1.590 is where I was at with the std. Colt 45 brass when loaded with Red Dot.

[BigAl52]

Heck yeah Al, I could always put it to good use, but I'd feel better if I sent these 45 LC Factory Cowboy action stuff that I've had in the armory for awhile.
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Just send me your Address PM wise Moetur. Is it better to do UPS to you are USPS. Heck Moetur you better keep that ammo for urself. I see a Henry BB 45 Colt in your future

[BigAl52]

Xtreme Bullets emailed me with the bullets I ordered on the way. I also pulled some bullets out of some 41 mag cases that I have been having issues with.

Hey Al, where ya been? haven't seen ya in a min.
What issues with the 41's and which bullets?

RP

Randy
I have this Chief of Staff here thats retired. Im sure you have one of those at your house dont you? When she has a beer or 2 these yard orders start to appear. Ive been getting the yard up to speed for her. We have some fountains and I needed to get the sprinkler system going. Shes my best friend in life so I dont mind doing whatever she needs done. The 41 bullets are the MC 225 bullets. For some reason when I use those I get a case that will hang and the bolt extractor just wont pull them out. Its the only bullet I have issues with. I have some SWC lead bullets that feed like butter along with the Xtreme copper plated bullets. The Hornady XTP 210 work great also no issues only with the MC 225 bullet. I shot them in my Ruger 41 and got quite a bit of leading. Im just going to shoot the plated and XTP bullets. Might try some Speer deep curl bullets or some Noslers if SPS gets some seconds back in. The Speer deep curls and really reasonable. But there out of stock every where now.

[dasmoeturhead]

Heck yeah Al, I could always put it to good use, but I'd feel better if I sent these 45 LC Factory Cowboy action stuff that I've had in the armory for awhile.
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Just send me your Address PM wise Moetur. Is it better to do UPS to you are USPS. Heck Moetur you better keep that ammo for urself. I see a Henry BB 45 Colt in your future

That might be true, however I have 6 boxes already reloaded, and no gun . my Daughter took a fancy to my Ruger Bisley Vaquero Revolver .45 LC 5.5in 6rd Stainless Ivory Grips, and since she helped me with so many things I gave it to her. Once I got here I found a bunch more 45Lc's.

[BigAl52]

I might of mentioned this before. But I had some 10 meter radios and a Kenwood TS-50. When I was on the road in the truck I would talk to people all over Lower Side Band below Channel 1 on the CB band. We werent supposed to be there but there was people all over the world there when the skip was running back then. Talked to Australia Tahiti and quite a few different places while driving down the road. Sure did pass the time for me.

[dasmoeturhead]

I might of mentioned this before. But I had some 10 meter radios and a Kenwood TS-50. When I was on the road in the truck I would talk to people all over Lower Side Band below Channel 1 on the CB band. We werent supposed to be there but there was people all over the world there when the skip was running back then. Talked to Australia Tahiti and quite a few different places while driving down the road. Sure did pass the time for me.

Yep, done the same thing with my old Stryker 955 10m export on the free bands. What fun.

[runnin n gunnin]

So first thing I did is clean my bench and get everything back in place.

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Now I am kind of a safety nut, so next I installed the latest safety device if things go really bad

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Finally, I was able to load up four versions of 45-70 I want to test/ chrono

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The below load data is for the rounds in the block from left to right

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[JEBar]

looking forward to seeing the results of your chrony test .... what muzzle velocity are you looking for ...

[RanchRoper]

Good looking setup there.

[BigAl52]

Looks well stocked the RG. Those 70's look like they might produce some shoulder massaging to.

[runnin n gunnin]

I will let you know JEBar. Probably be a week or so before I can break lose, but I will post the results.

RR - You are very kind, however I will be happy to trade my set up for your back porch and view ALL DAY LONG ! ! !. I love the desert, but I have to say, you are smack dab in some beautiful gods country !

Now back to business. Readers Digest version around 1500 to 1550 FPS. The Chief bought me my Henry 45-70 side gate for Xmas. I have put factory rounds down range but it took this long to get all of the components - dies, brass and bullet research to get to my first loads.

This is the first of many variations and I am anxious to see how they preform. The Missouri Hi Tek rounds were recommend to me on the forum, and I have to say I am looking forward to see how they preform.

Right now I am at around 99-100 degrees, 15% humidity, weather is clear and beautiful.

[runnin n gunnin]

Thanks Big Al, I started with the goal of loading up 50 rounds, but I am running low on Tonic (Jameson's) for after the shoot !

[Rifletom]

Thanks Big Al, I started with the goal of loading up 50 rounds, but I am running low on Tonic (Jameson's) for after the shoot !

Heh, heh. Easily remedied! . Good luck with the handload. Things looking good.