JT
Reloading/handloading can really be work.
Sunday, November 15, 2020, 10:32

I used to be able to shoot 12 months a year when I was in my invincible time of life, however now that I my fragile period I am a fair weather shooter and normally my shooting time is April through October with the other months being for reloading/handloading. Writing and picture taking can happen at any time.

During the original obnoxious lockdown I went out to my storage/work shed and gathered up all the .45 ACP brass I had been tossing into buckets over the past few years. There were over 5000 pieces and I spent two days sorting them by headstamp, then tumbled them clean and loaded them one at a time on the Rockchucker. That required about 35,000 single operations.

Now November is upon us and it is reloading/handloading time again and I'm doing the same thing with 9 mm brass I did with the .45 ACP with two exceptions. There is a lot more 9 mm and I speeded up the process slightly by using the Progressive 2000 to size, de-prime, re- prime, and slightly bell the case mouth. I then load in quantities of 100-200 On the Rockchucker. I was just out to the shed to tumble some more brass and I found a another 5 gallon bucket of 9 mm brass and even better I found the same amount of .38 Super brass I had forgotten about.

Diamond Dot is fixing cheeseburgers for lunch and that it is back to "work". I have until late March to finish everything including 1200.44 Special .44 Magnum cases primed, expanded and loaded into MTM cartridge cases ready to receive powder and bullets.