you guys that hate the thought of loading 200

Gary Reeder
[subject]
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 11:20 (2322 days ago)

rounds of ammo for the weekend shooting, take a look at what John Taffin does in his spare time..


I've taken advantage of the lockdown stay at home to finally attack three five-gallon buckets of spent .45 ACP brass accumulated over the past couple years. They've all been sorted by headstamp plus some older ones and those with
small primer pockets tossed in the recycle box. I wound up with a total of 5,250 usable rounds. Turning to the RockChucker each one was individually sized and de-primed using the Lee Undersized Carbide Sizing Die, they were then
just barely kissed on the case mouth with the Lee Universal Expander to allow bullets to be seated without opening up the case mouth enough to lessen the bullet pull, and then all primed one at a the time using the RCBS Bench-
Mounted Priming Tool. Adding that all up comes to 21,000 separate operations. The next step is to charge them with powder, seat the bullet, and then use the Lee Factory Crimp Die. That will add 15,750 more individual operations for
a total of 36,750. If I had figured this out before hand those three buckets would still probably be full of spent brass. But I will have a large supply of perfect rounds when I am finished. Doing the same with over 700 rounds of
.45 Auto Rim brass. My two daughters and granddaughter insist I not leave the house until this crisis is over and they are doing all the grocery shopping so I will abide by their rules. For now. GOOD SHOOTIN' AND GOD BLESS, JOHN

well WB has loaded the same .348 case 5200 times LOL

jthomson
[subject]
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 11:24 (2322 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

- No text -

and then when the case mouth split he trimmed it

Gary Reeder
[subject]
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 11:38 (2322 days ago) @ jthomson

down to 500 Linebaugh length. When that case mouth split after 4100 loadings he trimmed it again to 510 GNR length and loaded it another 4800 times. When that one eventually splits he will have a formal burial and memorial for it with lots of wailing and ripping of shirts and ashes in his hair and 2 weeks of mourning.

Haha....

ChrisG
[subject]
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 14:36 (2322 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

- No text -

Chris thinks we are kidding...

Gary Reeder
[subject]
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 15:06 (2322 days ago) @ ChrisG

- No text -

It it will hold a primer, it shoots something.

WB
[subject]
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 15:36 (2322 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

- No text -

Scott and I must be related. I can relate

Abin Sur
[subject]
Sunday, April 12, 2020, 14:08 (2321 days ago) @ WB

- No text -

life is way too short to try to save every messed

gary reeder
[subject]
Sunday, April 12, 2020, 20:11 (2321 days ago) @ WB

up piece of brass. I have spent most of the day reloading 5 or 6 calibers and threw away probably a dozen pieces of brass that has bulges at the base or the mouth of the case was dinged in from a jam in a 45 ACP. Building 1911s from scratch we go thru a lot of dinged up pieces of brass before we get the gun functioning perfectly. All our brass is saved and I tumble them while I am bluing (last night). Today i went thru several hundred rounds of brass and dumped maybe 1 1/2 dozen. Just not worth the time and effort trying to baby a piece of brass into one more shooting.

That's a lot of work...

Huey
[subject]
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 13:59 (2322 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

- No text -

I have been getting some casting in

Sean Harper
[subject]
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 14:24 (2322 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

My 8 cavity aluminum mold came in, a copy of the Lyman 358429
Cast bullets are dropping like rain.

Sean

powered by my little forum