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What did you do in the reloading room recently?
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You need to add a pic of what shot the shorts
1896 SW lemmon squeezerHammerless, grip safety and a trigger pull weight 5x worse than the MA trigger shit.
gerrycaruso
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Loaded a few rounds for the 03. It seems to like Varget so I loaded a few each with Benchmark, CFE 223 and Varget. All with a Hornady 150 grain fmjbt.
EddieZoom
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Started a long overdue tear down clean/lube of the my Dillon 550.
Did we shoot together at Hanson? If so I must have given you those casings when I shot there a decade ago, box is empty I vaguely remember now I gave em to Someone there. it’s starting to come back to me.
If I didn’t give em to you sorry for the excitement!
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paulleve
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Wet tumbled brass, straight out of the dryer. Nice!
Noice. Which calibers?
paulleve
NES Member
.30-06 and .223 this time around. With nice weather in the near future, I'm trying to process as much brass as possible!
allen-1
NES Member
Loaded 600 rounds of 124grn 9mm, (4.0 Titegroup), for a Glock match this coming weekend.
Pro Tip - Pay attention - when you close the press on your fingers; it's quite possible to gouge yourself with the sharp piece of brass as well as crush a couple fingers.
Pro Tip - Pay attention - when you close the press on your fingers; it's quite possible to gouge yourself with the sharp piece of brass as well as crush a couple fingers.
2 old timer adages Come to mind
1 don’t put your fingers where you wouldn’t put your Wang
2 gotta be smarter than what you’re working with
Prayers!
paulleve
NES Member
Today I tried a few of the 7.62x54r reloads I posted about a few weeks back. The only targets I had on hand were not the best choice for a 3.5x PU scope, and I could only barely see a hint of the red center at 50 yards. It turned into a game of trying to line up the black post in the middle of the black target, but I could not be happier with the results. I usually shoot surplus light ball out of this rifle and had no idea it has the potential to be pretty accurate!
Again, these groups were shot at 50 yards, just to see if handloading this caliber for this rifle makes sense. This included three different powder weights, and that last one could definitely be felt in the shoulder! The center group came it at about .4" and is 43.0 grains of IMR4895 with a Hornady 174 gr FMJBT. I'm going to order up some better targets and experiment more with these loads.
For those interested in Mosins, this is an original 1944 Izhevsk PU sniper. It was part of a batch Samco imported 15-20 years ago from Yugoslavia. Russia sent them to Yugoslavia after the war, so they were not treated to the sandpaper, paint, and shellac most other Mosins got post WWII. It has an original sniper trigger and bolt, but the scope and mount are both pretty decent repros.
Again, these groups were shot at 50 yards, just to see if handloading this caliber for this rifle makes sense. This included three different powder weights, and that last one could definitely be felt in the shoulder! The center group came it at about .4" and is 43.0 grains of IMR4895 with a Hornady 174 gr FMJBT. I'm going to order up some better targets and experiment more with these loads.
For those interested in Mosins, this is an original 1944 Izhevsk PU sniper. It was part of a batch Samco imported 15-20 years ago from Yugoslavia. Russia sent them to Yugoslavia after the war, so they were not treated to the sandpaper, paint, and shellac most other Mosins got post WWII. It has an original sniper trigger and bolt, but the scope and mount are both pretty decent repros.
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EddieZoom
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That brass dryer really does a nice job.
I just saw this pretty nice safe pop up on fb for super cheap in Manchester. One of you guys needs this. I'd grab it myself but I don't have room for it.
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Its very possible ? Although my memory is shit. If you did give them to me thank you . I have traded off so much stuff since NES its crazy.
I have received stuff in the mail for free and have no real memory of who or why lol.
As for my 32 sw I shoot maybe 15 rounds a year. I meet 2 old guys there once a year and we have a shoot off. Winner gets bragging rights
Yeah it was me we were ordering pallets of powder and components together. I had just bought my M1A scout and had to feed it.
I was going through the receipts I have from a decade ago from those shipments and came across your name on one of them
I miss shooting at Hanson, i bought a house with some proprietary in plymouth I was shooting in my back yard till they developed some space behind me
Nice! You need any brass? I’m selling off my Mosin with a bunch of ammo and I kept all the PPU brass I shot. 116 cases once fired and clean
Ah the group buys 10 plus years ago , did you get in on the surplus powder buy?
I miss the primer group buys.
Sadly the core of my group have either passed or have moved.
Old wideners and SOG are gone
And there was another place I have forgotten the name we did well with.
xtry51
NES Member
I do miss $70/$80 8lb jugs of surplus.
xtry51
NES Member
If anyone wants a complete 50bmg setup with components for cheap let me know. It's collecting dust in my basement.
Oh yeah I still have slips
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38ExtraSpecial
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Loaded some 115 V-Crowns and some 124 HST (Pulled components with P marks on their bases. Did not look like regular HST upon expansion)
Pen was right about 16” some just short of the gel and some exited but stuck in the cardboard box behind it.
Pen was right about 16” some just short of the gel and some exited but stuck in the cardboard box behind it.
38ExtraSpecial
NES Member
V-Crowns up top.
“P” Marked “HST” down bottom. Guessing they either missed a step in the processing or the company that sells them mislabeled them because they don’t look like HSTs. Either way near 100% weight retention and great expansion.
I have some of the 124g pulled HSTs as well, but mine aren't marked "P" on the base.
38ExtraSpecial
NES Member
I think these were actually marketed as 125s
I’m going to grab some more next time and see what I get.
steven grammont
NES Member
I've been making a bunch of 9mm the last couple of weeks. I only spend an hour or two in front of the press at a time , I've made around 700-800 so far.
Lee turret press
Mixed brass
Xtreme plated 135 gr rnfp
CCI spp
W231
Lee turret press
Mixed brass
Xtreme plated 135 gr rnfp
CCI spp
W231
