Reeder Custom Guns - Got Out On The Range Early The Other Day

to beat the heat. Started shooting around 8:30 and wrapped it up in a couple hours. Was shooting my old 1911 and my Star PD carry gun.

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I saw the shots going into a nice group and at the last shot I thought, "This will be easy." And it was ... eased it to the left and low.
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I have a habit of doing that for some reason. :-|

Yesterday I cleaned the brass and this morning while it was cool I sized, deprimed and neck expanded them. Now all I have to do is prime them and load them.

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I am going to load the 230 gr. cast flat nose bullet. I like this bullet for serious stuff. I believe it will work well should I have to shoot a fat armadillo.

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One load I have chronographed with this bullet is 10.5 gr. of Blue Dot. It does 1034 fps out of my old 1911. I will not shoot them in the Star! And that load is not a plinking or practice load. I believe a steady diet would hammer the 1911, even with a heavy recoil spring.

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. . . a single-stage press in action in these days of super-dooper-whizz-bang-multi-stage progressive presses.

Of course, I never need to load more than fifty cases at a time and usually spread that out over several sessions, one each for each step in the process. ;-)

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Been using the RCBS Rockchucker since the late 1970's and don't need anything more. I do have some Lyman 310 Tools and a couple Lee Loaders . the old "hammer your ammo together" tools. Covers everything I need. :-)

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. . .but otherwise we're on the same page. :-D

Tap, tap, tapBANG!! ;-)

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time to time. My problem is loading all our cartridges for test firing at the shop. I have 8 Dillon progressive presses, 2 RCBS Turret presses and the Rockchucker. But I need them as I reload every night of the week for test firing the next day.

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C&H H-frame press off Ebay. I spoke to the grown woman whom was selling off her father's old stuff. She remembered puling the lever as a little girl! Was happy I was so enthusiastic and intending to actually use it. They modded the press style over the years with multiple top stations and currently "both" multi-top and bottom stations. Four of them, the 444 Magnum press. I guess you'd need a whole bunch of shell holders for the same case! Hard to find in stock and well north of $400.

I like the open front and the only slightly limiting element is a flaky attention to expelling and capturing spent primers. But I adapted mine. If I'm loading less than 200 rounds, at one sitting, this is what I use even today.

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Got Out On The Range Early The Other Day

A great way to spend the day.

Always good to see . . .

SINGLE STAGE

I don't have the 310's . . .

I have a Rock Chucker from 1970 that I use from

A few year's back I bought a 1958-59