What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[BigAl52]

That Bandit he has a neat set up for sure. Way to organized for me. Oh and and I ever mentioned I hate triming cases worst job in the reloading room

[Ojaileveraction]

I ever mentioned I hate triming cases

Maybe a couple times.

[fortyshooter]

Haven't trimmed one yet.

[Vaquero]

Sized and primed 45 25-20's, then loaded 25 with 62 gr Hornady pills.
Short break then load the rest with some 86 gr cast.

RP

[BigAl52]

Got my 3 boxes of 210 gr xtp 41 mag bullets yesterday and a new kinetic bullet puller from Hornady. That bullet puller is alot heavier than any of the others I have had. Hopefully it will last alot longer.

[dasmoeturhead]

I've loaded Remington, and Wolf gold .223 six times so far. They all still work perfect. Figured it was time to trim them all the same. Probably didn't need to. The Hornady trimmer is nice. Now swaging the primer pocket in a military 5.56mm just plain stinks. Got a bunch of them to do. At least it's better than a poke in the eye with a hot branding iron.

[RanchRoper]

Will do some more 200 gr lead this weekend. Supposed to snow.

[Ojaileveraction]

Sized and primed 45 25-20's, then loaded 25 with 62 gr Hornady pills.
Short break then load the rest with some 86 gr cast.

RP

What powder, Im going to do a quick pressure ladder load , min to max in half grain steps, w H4198 just to check for pressure. close to 2200fps max.
buying a couple boxes every time i order.

[Vaquero]

I did those with 12.5 grs IMR4198.
I did a small test a couple weeks back, 12.0, 12.5, and 13, not much difference at 35 yds.
Gonna try these at some different yards and see what they do.

Did do two different loads with the 86 gr cast to try.
5.5 of 2400 &
9.5 of H4198.

RP

[runnin n gunnin]

Hey RR, sorry to hear about the snow. Its a balmy 100 with 10 per cent humidity here in Arizona with a light breeze. I'm going to hit the range Monday or Tuesday and chrono those 45-70 and 45 colt rounds I just loaded.

[RanchRoper]

Typical Alberta springtime....

[JEBar]

what did I do about reloading today.. .. well, I made an absolute and final decision .. .. that being when we head west in a few weeks to send the summer in South Dakota, I'm going to take pack supplies to load 2 levels of 44 Mag and a light load 38 Special ....


disclaimer : my absolute and final decisions are subject to change at any second ..

[Vaquero]

How many different powders does this involve?

RP

[JEBar]

depending on what I have the most of, W296 or H110 for the full power 44's

here again, depending on what I have the most of, Unique or Bullseye for the low power 44's and 38's

[Vaquero]

I was thinking at least two, those would be H 110 and Unique here.
Always have a pretty good supply of Unique here and a bit of 110, never tried Bullseye.

RP

[JEBar]

W296 and H110 are very close to being the same powder .... I prefer Winchester simply because it was the first powder I tried loading 44 Mag hunting ammo and it has served us well .... in recent times its been easier to get H110 and I have no qualms about it whatsoever .... I also prefer Unique and it is usually relatively easy to find .... for low power 38's I have found that Bullseye is a reasonable substitute

[Grunt67]

I used W296 in the 44 mag pistol I had yrs ago, worked good for me.

[Greyhawk]

Loaded up my first swack of Buffalo rounds..... You know just in case of a stampede or something.

[runnin n gunnin]

Hey Greyhawk, did the same thing last week with the same MB Buffalo. I dropped 36.5 grn of IMR4198 on half the rounds and 43.5 of H322 on the other half. Hope to Chrono them this week. What powder did you load with?

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I also loaded 50 rounds of .357 for the Henry using the Missouri Bullets Hi Tek 180 grn Striker's. I am looking forward to putting them through the Henry as well.

Please post how you like them.

[Rifletom]

Man, you guys have some impressive .45-70 loads going on there. r n g, bet you like those 180's in your .357. What's the powder?