What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Rifletom]

Loaded up 100 rounds of .45 Colt for the new Uberti/Taylor. Ohh, am liking this gun the more I just handle it. Going to try and make a desert trip over the Holiday weekend. I want to shoot, wife wants some rocks for backyard stuff. I'll drink to that. Happy Turkey Day everyone!

[BigAl52]

No loads today only smoke and lots of it. Love that BP smoke.

[Hatchdog]

No loads today only smoke and lots of it. Love that BP smoke.

Maybe no loading at the bench but plenty of loading at the firing line. Back in the day when I had a Thompson Center 54 cal Hawken I always brought it along when some buddies and I would go shooting. When we ran out of ammo for the modern firearms the ole’ muzzle loaded never did.

[Oldbrass]

Tumbled some 9mm range brass

[Rifletom]

Loading 50 more .45 Colt using 7.2gr Universal/250gr Missouri rnfp plain bullets. Accurate and pretty pleasant to shoot from the two 1873's.
Will try and get to the desert again this weekend. Sure do like shooting those two.

[fortyshooter]

Cleaning up some .45 Colt brass today and need to get on top of my brass cleaning....full coffee cans of brass piling up.
Will load up some 45 Colt today and tomorrow.

[Rifletom]

forty, what's the ingredients for the .45 Colt rounds?

[BigAl52]

Nothin yet but UPS man just dropped of 500 balls I bought on line for 45.00. Thats less than 10.00 a box they sell locally for 12.99.

[Rifletom]

Nothin yet but UPS man just dropped of 500 balls I bought on line for 45.00. Thats less than 10.00 a box they sell locally for 12.99.

You and RR are going totally retro! Looks like a hoot.

[BigAl52]

Its alot of fun Tom. I like shooting steel with the muzzleloaders as much as centerfire its at a much slower pace.

[fortyshooter]

forty, what's the ingredients for the .45 Colt rounds?

This batch would be 8-8.5 Unique with 250 gr. MB RNFP and CCI 350 Mag. primers. Seemed to work fine in my 45 ACP Unique loads.

[fortyshooter]

Its alot of fun Tom. I like shooting steel with the muzzleloaders as much as centerfire its at a much slower pace.

Did you check on the buffalo target?

[Rifletom]

forty, what's the ingredients for the .45 Colt rounds?

This batch would be 8-8.5 Unique with 250 gr. MB RNFP and CCI 350 Mag. primers. Seemed to work fine in my 45 ACP Unique loads.

forty, I just got done reading some posts regarding using mag primers for the very same load. It is NOT recommended. The posts come from a CCI tech.

[BigAl52]

Its alot of fun Tom. I like shooting steel with the muzzleloaders as much as centerfire its at a much slower pace.

Did you check on the buffalo target?

I havent yet Forty need to decide which size I want.

[bandit1250]

My time at my bench was clearing it of a lot of stuff I dug out to get ready for deer season. Getting it back in order now.

[Hatchdog]

What did I do at my reloading bench today”

Why, I spilled my powder trickler full of the H4895 I drove 100 miles round trip to buy.

I got into such a hurry to clean it up I didn’t think to take a picture until it was too late. In the pic below imagine the trickler laying on it’s side towards the scale and powder everywhere.

It reminded my of those ole Crown Royal magazine ads showing a broken bottle of Crown with the caption, “ever seen a grown man cry?”.

I did manage to charge 154 .308 cases with 42 grains. Ran out of powder with 15 empties to go.

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[Rifletom]

Ouch! Not good. I am talking about the Crown Royal you know! . Kidding of course. You have any more of the 4895?

[CT_Shooter]

What did I do at my reloading bench today”
...I spilled my powder trickler full of the H4895 I drove 100 miles round trip to buy.

Ouch! I do hope you recovered the spilled powder. The Lyman trickler that I use is heavily weighted at the bottom and luckily doesn't require a step up to reach over the scale and powder pan. I could be wrong, but yours seems to sit high enough that you wouldn't need to set it on that box, either.

[Oldbrass]

Made a bunch of lubed wads for the cap & ball with wool felt, 1 part bees wax, 2 parts lamb tallow, punched out with a 45 colt case. About 500 for $4

[Hatchdog]

Ouch! Not good. I am talking about the Crown Royal you know! . Kidding of course. You have any more of the 4895?

I hear you but these days a pound of powder is about the same cost as a bottle of Crown. Out of 4895 and I’m thinking about driving over to Coeur d’Alene Idaho tomorrow to see if they have any left. I have been trying to meet up with a guy over there who had a 50 round box of 32 H&R mag ammo for sale at a pre-Covid price. I want to give it a try in my 327 Ruger pocket revolver as the 327 ammo is down right punishing.