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Old 01-11-2023, 06:29 AM
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Not in my reloading room yesterday but I did drive out near evansburg to meet with Al Szautner at his gun shop.Had a great visit with a very friendly and informed hunting / shooting enthusiast. I made some great purchases for reloading my sons 32 special.Good prices and no gouging or upselling. It was a great experience all round. Also did some ice fishing on my way back home lol.
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Old 01-13-2023, 06:39 PM
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I converted some Norinco 7.62x51 into "Mexican Match" for my 10tr. Try it out next week.
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Old 01-13-2023, 08:56 PM
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Not so much a reloading room more like a corner…. But I finally am setup and ready to start loading! After a couple months of gathering materials and contemplating if I made the wrong decision with the lack of large rifle primers in the world I have located enough to make my first couple batches of reloads! Doesn’t look like much but I’m working with what I’ve got!
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Old 01-16-2023, 06:41 PM
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Just received a 46b from Inter surplus. It had a base screw sheared off, which I could see from the picture, other than that It was drilled and tapped. I was able to drill out the sheared off screw and and remove it quite easily. Then when I went to install the Weaver bases I found the holes were smaller than the 6x48 screws which came with the bases. So after a lot of searching I measured the screw which I had extracted and found it to be 3mm. At Canadian Tire I found (4) 3mm x50 screws. So I took them home and tried them; they fit perfect. then I found the holes for the rear base were drilled too close together, then ground out holes in the rear base. To make a long story short a scope has now been mounted. That's my last two days in the reloading room.
Didn't work could not sight in. Scope moving around. Back to plan a A: Redrill holes to 6x48.

I finally got my taps, redrilled and tapped to 6x48. Sighted in and got a 1/2" group.
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Old 01-17-2023, 10:45 AM
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Finally got my hands on some lapua brass for my 300 Norma
So prepped and turned 100 of them and see if it gets rid of the clickers like a lot of people have said
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Old 01-18-2023, 12:12 PM
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My super trickler gets shipped next week
Sweet
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Old 01-18-2023, 12:41 PM
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Is the super trickler any better than the V4 or just more complex. I know it’s a few hundred more than a v4
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Old 01-18-2023, 02:53 PM
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My super trickler gets shipped next week
Sweet
They look very nice, I'm more than a little jealous.
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Old 01-18-2023, 02:57 PM
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Got all set up and loaded a bunch of test rounds for my 450 Rigby.
500gr Campro spitzers with IMR4831
Reduced load of 100grains lol
Tried a couple, worked and shot great, so loaded another 30 or so up for the range.
Prepped a bunch more 223
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Old 01-19-2023, 11:10 AM
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- I did the musical chairs thing with some scopes moving to different rifles.

- Prepped some 30-06 brass for one of those rifles.

- Tinkered with some 760 308 mags trying to get them to work in my 760 35Remington. <no luck>

- Went through my gun safe and found $900 cash I forgot about. <JACKPOT!>
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Old 01-19-2023, 12:37 PM
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I wet tumbled a bunch of 22-250, 6.5-284, 270 win, 300wm and 7 LRM all together. I won’t do that again as it was a pain sorting head stamps. As good a job as the wet tumbling with pins does, I find it a painful process sorting the pins from the brass.
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Old 01-19-2023, 12:45 PM
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They look very nice, I'm more than a little jealous.
Ya it should be pretty cool to use
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Old 01-19-2023, 04:38 PM
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I did some clean up and organizing in the storage cabinet and on the bench and on the shelves under the bench, I finally went through a couple boxes from the last estate sale stuff and refreshed my memory, I got a bunch of stuff that's going to go soon, some good some to just give away once I get it all listed on a paper.
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Old 01-20-2023, 09:00 AM
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Last night I prepped 103pcs of 45-70 brass for my new rifle. Sized and primed; ready for powder and bullets.
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Old 01-20-2023, 01:38 PM
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Finished priming and expanding last of the .38spl for cowboy loads.
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Old 01-21-2023, 11:11 AM
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I rolled up a large coffee can of loose change I had in the gun safe.

$918 <jack pot!>
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Old 01-21-2023, 04:36 PM
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I got around to clean up my loading desk. Seems like before you know it everything else is on there that doesn't need to be.

Aaaahhhh, now it is fresh again.


Still trying to figure out what I will do for annealing. Building my own induction, or flame annealer?
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Old 01-21-2023, 06:51 PM
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Nothing but I put a bunch more bullets in my cabinet that I found at the gun show, good score .264 - 143 gr ELDX for my 6.5 PRC it loves them and I found 4 boxes
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Old 01-21-2023, 06:55 PM
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loaded 200 22 Hornet with LIL Gun and 40 grainV Maxes

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Old 01-22-2023, 06:29 AM
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Prepped 32 special cases and set up dies for crimp.will load them tomorrow
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Old 01-22-2023, 05:28 PM
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Was prepping some new 6.5 creed brass for an upcoming build. Lol, had some time and figured I'd start to prep for it. Still need an action to complete the build, but that is gonna be soon.
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Old 01-22-2023, 07:36 PM
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Reconformed my 6mmBR , replaced the int'l butt plate with a standard prone butt plate, then reset the front ladder down 6MOA and the rear sight settings at 500 meters for the zero.
Now to load another 150 rounds of 108 AMax's with a boat load of 4895
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Old 01-22-2023, 08:01 PM
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I rolled up a large coffee can of loose change I had in the gun safe.

$918 <jack pot!>
Almost enough for 1000 primers and a box of Accubonds…..
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Old 01-23-2023, 07:24 AM
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Loaded thosec32 special rounds and tumbled a bunch of brass.will work on loading some 223 and maybe some 22 250 today
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Old 01-23-2023, 05:04 PM
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Loaded 584 of our 130gr RNFP .38spl cowboy loads with 3.6gr Hodgdon HiSkor700x. Now out of 700x and changing over to Alliant Bullseye.
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Old 01-23-2023, 05:54 PM
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Sized, preped, primed and loaded 60 22-250.
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Old 01-23-2023, 06:02 PM
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My new AGS annealer arrived today so setting it up
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Old 01-23-2023, 09:29 PM
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Prepped and loaded 100 7LRM with 180 Berger hybrids and prepped and loaded 50 257wby with 110 accubonds.

I have to prep about a 100 6.5-284 and load them tomorrow then I just have to load some for the wife’s 270win and I’m all caught up.
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Old 01-24-2023, 09:31 AM
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Well, I broke down and ordered the parts to get an induction annealer going.

My son is into 3d printing, and in electronics class in school, so we will be working together to get a self feed going. Just happen to have an old computer tower sitting there doing nothing, and he needs to complete a few projects for class.
Our 3d order of filament should arrive this week, and he can start setting things up and getting some 10/22 parts printed to work out the settings.

Already have plans floating in the head of what I want it to do and look.
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Old 01-24-2023, 10:14 AM
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I bought a Ruger #1 in 303 British about 10-12 years ago and finally got around to loading some batches of test ammo for it. 150 grain spitzer bullets by Sierra and Hornady pushed by varying charges of IMR 4064. So far all the rifle has seen is some Federal factory ammo producing 1 1/2" 5 shot groups at 100 yards. It would be nice to see those groups tighten up a bit with my test loads. D.H.
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