Reeder Custom Guns - Loaded some 480 Achilles ammo this morning

First time I have loaded any of this ammo it 10 years or more. I almost forgot how to do it!!

Cases and Bullets ready
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Powder Charge (Unique for about 720 fps)
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Seat the bullets
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Crimp
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Ready for Lube
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I will lube them by hand before I go to the range.

Fun stuff. I am looking forward to some range time with it.

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or were they left over?

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from years ago. I have the mold for the hollow base bullet and need to cast some.

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I had no bullets but found a .40 cal. .401" cast bullet worked pretty well loaded "backwards" with the truncated nose pointing back into the case. I basically loaded "blanks" with a bullet poked in the case end and placed them into the chamber one at a time to shoot my target groups.

I got 4-5" 5-shot groups at 33 yds. The "backward" .40's hit dead on the butt ends with no instability I could tell. The gun was on old Colt DA Navy 1903 Second Issue. It has not spoken in quite a while and it was a real hoot to hear it go BANG!

Loaded some 480 Achilles ammo this morning

Unique opportunity after a decade, have fun!

Very neat!

Did you cast the bullets after you had the gun coming back,

I have a bunch of the flat nose bullets

Gotcha. Have fun!

I was trying to shoot a heel type .41 Long Colt

what is the base case?

.45 Colt