Tales from the Reloading Room

[Chazroh]

Helped a friend get his new to him Dillon 1050 up and rolling.

 

[rockchalk06]

Not gonna lie, I'm kind of in love

 

[Pochanaquarhip]

Not gonna lie, I'm kind of in love
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I have the FART M-Press and love it. I hear that press you have is very nice.

 

[rockchalk06]

It is. Very beefy and feels very positive when you're cranking down. I need a separate shell plate to use my RCBS Ram Prime or I'll have to prime off the top of the press.

 

[rockchalk06]

One of the biggest factors in upping consistency and dropped ES's has been tossing out the expander ball and finishing off with a mandrel as the last step before powder drop.

Running some .300 PRC I fireformed last weekend over a T2. This gets me .003" NT on a 205 Berger Elite Hunter.

 

[rockchalk06]

Got another 50 pieces of ADG 6.5 PRC brass in. Using some pulled 147 ELD-M's, H4350 and 210M's from some 6.5 Creedmoor I loaded several years ago. Going to fireform these for my Bergara.

 

[rockchalk06]

So this is where all my Retumbo went

 

[rockchalk06]

Shitters full!

 

[Ndenway]

Was looking through boxes in my gear room and found bullets I'd cast from wheel weights for my 45/70 loads.

First is lyman solid 405gr, second is lee 405gr hollow base and third is a ranchdog .425gr gas check.

The lyman has the lee lube on it, the lee & ranchdog haven't.

I don't size them as they don't need it, the marlin cowboy has a fat bore, the .460 rancher does well in, it could probably be smidge better if it was .461.

The lyman & lee are for my old style 45/70 1100fps plinking/hunting loads and the ranchdog is my 1700+fps hunting loads.