This should make a few antis cry a river, or three... This is how I wasted a Saturday night... I had better plans, but they got destroyed... so I basically said... "Well, f**k it.. I'm not going to sit around doing nothing... " and then decided to RELOAD.
400 230 gr JHP rounds all crimped and ready to go... (one set is already boxed up and QCed. ) 7.0 grains of Power Pistol over a Winchester 230 gr JHP. Straddles 900 fps out of a 5" 1911. And that load isn't even the max. Even at 7, these loads are not for pussies. These are mainly for killing wood bowling pins.
Major PF... Bah. Try 207.
Every round was checked for powder and case gauged. These WILL work in all of my .45s. Of course, some of them will be more brutal than
others.
After packaging, plus another 100 rounds that I loaded with 4.7 gr WST in the blue box... those are pussy loads for plinking, etc. They still make around 800 FPS out of a 1911, though.
Obligatory alcohol, tobacco, firearm pics. (No, I didn't drink that whole bottle of merlot...
Whatever was left of the La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero DL700 I smoked... Please ignore that shitty IBM craptiva carcass in the background.
Before anyone gives me a ration of shit, the cigar was smoked well away from the reloading area, and the alcohol was consumed slowly over a
very long time... although now it's starting to kick my ass.
Moral of the story... anyone can reload- I reloaded all this stuff on a SINGLE STAGE press. It is not the best way, but it works.
I strongly suggest anyone that burns more than 1000 rounds of a pistol caliber in a year learn how to reload. All the ammo I created above is stuff
you can't even buy in a store. (Well, at least not without paying some absurd amount of money for it... ) That's incentive enough alone, never mind
the cost savings.
-Mike
Special Thanks To:
RCBS
Winchester
Federal
Frankfurter Arsenal (for making my cheap pos brass tumbler that works)
MTM case gard (those guys that make the plastic boxes and trays)
Everyone at NES.
Music Used While Reloading:
-The Who
-Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Karn Evil 9 / Brain Salad Surgery)
-Rush (Exit, Stage Left)
That is all.
400 230 gr JHP rounds all crimped and ready to go... (one set is already boxed up and QCed. ) 7.0 grains of Power Pistol over a Winchester 230 gr JHP. Straddles 900 fps out of a 5" 1911. And that load isn't even the max. Even at 7, these loads are not for pussies. These are mainly for killing wood bowling pins.
Major PF... Bah. Try 207.
Every round was checked for powder and case gauged. These WILL work in all of my .45s. Of course, some of them will be more brutal than
others.
After packaging, plus another 100 rounds that I loaded with 4.7 gr WST in the blue box... those are pussy loads for plinking, etc. They still make around 800 FPS out of a 1911, though.
Obligatory alcohol, tobacco, firearm pics. (No, I didn't drink that whole bottle of merlot...
Whatever was left of the La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero DL700 I smoked... Please ignore that shitty IBM craptiva carcass in the background.
Before anyone gives me a ration of shit, the cigar was smoked well away from the reloading area, and the alcohol was consumed slowly over a
very long time... although now it's starting to kick my ass.
Moral of the story... anyone can reload- I reloaded all this stuff on a SINGLE STAGE press. It is not the best way, but it works.
I strongly suggest anyone that burns more than 1000 rounds of a pistol caliber in a year learn how to reload. All the ammo I created above is stuff
you can't even buy in a store. (Well, at least not without paying some absurd amount of money for it... ) That's incentive enough alone, never mind
the cost savings.
-Mike
Special Thanks To:
RCBS
Winchester
Federal
Frankfurter Arsenal (for making my cheap pos brass tumbler that works)
MTM case gard (those guys that make the plastic boxes and trays)
Everyone at NES.
Music Used While Reloading:
-The Who
-Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Karn Evil 9 / Brain Salad Surgery)
-Rush (Exit, Stage Left)
That is all.
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