What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Vaquero]

Cleaned some 270 and 44 mag brass yesterday.
Loaded 20 of the 270's.
Then I loaded 10 30-30's with a 173 gr cast over 18.0 grs of 2400 to try.

RP

[Oldbrass]

Cleaned some 270 and 44 mag brass yesterday.
Loaded 20 of the 270's.
Then I loaded 10 30-30's with a 173 gr cast over 18.0 grs of 2400 to try.

RP

Never tried cast in my 30-30. Does the Marlin micro groove rifling work with those ?

[BigAl52]

There is back and forth arguments about cast in microgroove Marlins. But I read about alot of guys having success with it. Just need to give it a try

[Vaquero]

Cleaned some 270 and 44 mag brass yesterday.
Loaded 20 of the 270's.
Then I loaded 10 30-30's with a 173 gr cast over 18.0 grs of 2400 to try.

RP

Never tried cast in my 30-30. Does the Marlin micro groove rifling work with those ?

Yes sir, a friend and I played with some about 3 years ago. We got some pretty good groups shooting at 75 yds., believe that was with Unique though. He's no longer with us so I can't inquire.
This load was given to me by another friend I trust.

Need to load a few more now that I found where the rest of the 30-30 brass was hiding.
Even found 20 already sized and primed.
As I do have 5 candidates.
Not all Marlins though.

RP

[BigAl52]

Gonna be a while before I see my loading bench but when I do Im going to have some things to clean out. Ive thinned the herd quite a bit at my house and Im going to have some brass and bullets for sale.

[Vaquero]

Depending on what you have, I could be interested.

RP

[Grunt67]

Cleaned some 270 and 44 mag brass yesterday.
Loaded 20 of the 270's.
Then I loaded 10 30-30's with a 173 gr cast over 18.0 grs of 2400 to try.

RP

Randy, that 270 is a good round. Had one myself yrs ago. Jack O'connor swore by it, back in the day. Kinda hard to argue with him.

[Vaquero]

Hey oldbrass, that load wasn't very popular with the girls. The '66 Winchester like it best, and the '75 Marlin came in second, and the scoped Westerfield next.
When I was pulling the rifles out of the safe, the Ranger had a nylon shellholder on it with 4 cast loads.
Not knowing what they were I tore one down, looks like 18.5 grs IMR 4198.
Not bad with the scoped one. Definitely a good starting point.

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RP

[Oldbrass]

That's some fine shootin' Vaquero, I'd take that seven days a week and twice on Sunday

[Oldbrass]

Stuffing some lead 158gr RNFP (round nose flat point) into 38 special cases over 4.5 gr unique.

[runnin n gunnin]

Love the 158 grain for the .38 OB, I drop Bullseye or HS-6 (HS-6 the most consistent). Looking Good !

[.45Steel]

I got the 500 .223 cases that I wet pin cleaned and dried yesterday all annealed today.

[Oksrt]

Loaded 150 rds 41 mag

[Hatchdog]

I got the 500 .223 cases that I wet pin cleaned and dried yesterday all annealed today.

Do you find that pins can get stuck in the flash holes?

[Vaquero]

Never had that problem, well
So far anyway.

RP

[gpraceman]

Do you find that pins can get stuck in the flash holes?

I get some that hide inside the case. None stuck in the flash holes.

[Vaquero]

Do you find that pins can get stuck in the flash holes?

I get some that hide inside the case. None stuck in the flash holes.

Oh yeah, definitely have to dump the cases.

RP

[Vaquero]

Just finished 107 45 colts, last of the clean ones.
There are about 2 dozen from the other afternoon that need cleaning.
These I loaded with 6.5 grs Red dot and some 190 gr swc. The bullets were free, a friend gave them to me year before last.
Nice little plinkers for the back deck.

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RP

[Oldbrass]

Just finished running 500 more 38 special thru the crimp die. Wish I had some more storage boxes.

[Cofisher]

Yeah, I’m running out of storage boxes too. Cleaned and prepped another 100 cases. Sized, belled and primed.

I ordered a batch of 125 grain plated flat point bullets. Trying something new to me. Looking for that elusive 2000 FPS round. Not a hunting load, just for fun. Paying $.15 each for bullets is annoying.

Everglades bullets providing the little fun pellets.