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Anonymous05/05/26, 01:09No.65130178/rg/ - Reloading General
One loaded cartridge at a time edition
Pic is a .45 Super 185gr FMJ on top of 10g of Long Shot powder.
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Anon05/05/26, 01:10No.65130183
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Anon05/05/26, 01:20No.65130205
Messy Bench Edition, i guess.I still need dies and bullets for .380, but i wanna do it bad enough i knocked the primers out with a punch and hammer.Got 70ish of those tumbling with a few 45acps, a couple 22-250s and the odd fuddy ought sex.The pint sized camp stove was used to heat my water, worked great for the one barrel im using. A spritz or 2 of purple power is my cleaner, ill get a pic when theyre done
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Anon05/05/26, 01:21No.65130209
>10g of Long Shot powder
I haven't used Long Shot before, but that sounds like a lot.
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Anon05/05/26, 05:30No.65130676
Thoughts on 3d printed sabot? Currently have some in .452 that seat a 4.6mm 38 gn varmint round.. also have some that seat .224 diameter bullets, both 36gn and 50 gn. Experimenting with solid sabots vs cutouts to match the 50bmg slap sabot jackets, and print settings shooting for a solid base with hollow “petals”
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Anon05/05/26, 05:38No.65130692
Handloading ammo is man's way of coping. Coping that he can't birth children.
But to be fair, the ammunition children he does produce is beautiful.
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Anon05/05/26, 23:44No.65132768
Loading 9 on a single stage kinda sucks but it works.124grn Plated HP over 6.6grn of HS6.
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Anon05/06/26, 06:15No.65133469
Is reloading coming back because of pricing?
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Anon05/06/26, 15:28No.65134287
Why aren't you loading 300 grain 45 ACP? We like and use 45 because it's heavy and slow. Why go the opposite direction?
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Anon05/07/26, 08:16No.65136132
Reloading 12 gauge shotgun shells with Pyrodex RS and 8-1/2 shot (it was on sale).
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Anon05/07/26, 11:29No.65136358
I have a lee single stage press that I originally bought to reload .300WM but now mainly use for .38/.357. I’m not a super high volume shooter but I would like to increase my output to more than 50 rounds/hour. I’ve read that turret presses are a good compromise and not super expensive, things like the Dillon 550 work well. Does anyone have any experience with something like that? I don’t think I need a progressive press, but I could see the argument of “buy once cry once” applying here
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Anon05/07/26, 13:40No.65136549
Anyone load blanks before? Looking to load launch charges for 37mm. Everywhere says to use 38s&w. Any reason I can't just use 38 special?
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Anon05/07/26, 17:45No.65137030
Going to the range later with these. I'll post notes later.
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Anon05/07/26, 21:36No.65137639
Ok so 4gr of unique in a 38special case won't ignite... I trimmed to 38 s&w length and loaded again.
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Anon05/08/26, 00:01No.65137916
I finally took the plunge and bought a Lee kit
made a bunch of 30-30s: 10 loads of 5 rounds each from 30.2 to 32 grains of Benchmark with 150gn Sierra pro hunter flat noses
looking forward to testing them out
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Anon05/08/26, 02:26No.65138213
3/3
My TLR-4 did break upon the first few shots. It cost me $45 used so I'm not too worried. The DPM spring fell off the barrel when I went to disassemble my M&P. I had to drift out the front roll pin that the recoil assembly was stuck on.
The USP handled it like a champ.
10/10 would reload again.
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Anon05/08/26, 09:20No.65138745
>notified that 140gr fmjs are back in stock same day as the 115gr I ordered in desperation are delivered
just
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Anon05/08/26, 09:47No.65138772
I got 100 pcs of Lapua 7mm PRC brass recently. I'll see what these babies can do.
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Anon05/08/26, 10:08No.65138789
i dropped my frankford arsenal trickler and the tube broke, the tube is shit metal. it looks like the rcbs trickler has a real steel tube, anyone have it?
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Anon05/08/26, 17:33No.65139618
wet or dry tumbling?
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Anon05/09/26, 16:55No.65142845
I just joined the club, I will be reloading mostly .45 and 7.65x54 Belgium.Got a Hornady classic, this week I will buy the rest. Any tips or recommendations before buying the accessories and dies?
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Anon05/09/26, 19:54No.65143266
Bought a Hornay Seating Die and a Redding Type S FSD, cant wait for my 1st bolty tonarrive in 4weeks :3
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Anon05/09/26, 20:04No.65143283
Fired more .45 Super through my M&P
No issues this time with disassembly. I had one FTF that could have been from the mag spring not keeping up with the slide. No surprise but all other rounds fired fine from each of my batches. The 250gr plated flat points with 7.6grs of Autocomp were very manageable and potentially good innawoods loads for this handgun.
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Anon05/09/26, 21:32No.65143469
Remember, kids! Close AND clear your powder drop BEFORE you take it off!I was doing a rough gram>grain conversion to see how much .380 i could potentially do, and got carried away... (About 668 @ 3.6gn, if you wondered)
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Anon05/09/26, 23:00No.65143681
>2512fps fn 30-30
gadzooks
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Anon05/10/26, 01:02No.65143903
There we are, 50 rounds of .380. 115gn Hornady FMJ-RN, 3.6gn Win 231, CCI 450.Range report soonish. Shooting from my IJ70-17AS.
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Anon05/10/26, 01:51No.65144005
How do you know when a shell is too fucked to reload any more
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Anon05/10/26, 03:44No.65144259
well I just went through a clusterfuck of a learning experience
>priming cases with a hand primer, one is being incredibly hard to press. can't pull the case out
>pull the case and shell holder out of the primer. must not have paid close enough attention because the primer is upside down and I was squeezing so hard the primer was folded sticking out
>"okay, I'll just use my press to remove the primer. I can just use the shell holder I have on now" (this shell holder is flat and doesn't hook into my press)
>DIDN'T think to use my universal deprimer, use the fucking sizing die (I just realized this while writing it out, would have saved me a giant headache)
>primer comes right out, case is stuck in die, deprimer preventing me from removing the shell holder
>try to lossen the deprimer nut in the press, break my locking lug (I have a quick swap system and it was one of the lugs that tightens with a set screw)
>out to the vise, get the nut loose, push the deprimer up enough to remove the shell holder, retighten the nut
>back inside, go to put the right shell holder on the die. "oh right, the deprimer". out to the vise 2
>now with the right shell holder on, put the die back in the press, but can't hook the shell holder back into the ram
take the die out of the press, unscrew it from the quick swap piece
>put the quick swap back in the press, hook the shell holder in, screw the die into the quick swap from the bottom
>push the lever, drop the ram, the case comes out, the nightmare is over
>back to priming, finish my batch
not going to make that mistake again
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Anon05/10/26, 20:29No.65145745
anyone have any experience with magtech brass shotgun shells?
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Anon05/10/26, 20:35No.65145762
Had my first squib load the other day. 148gr wadcutter over 3gr of titegroup in 38spl. Bullet made it into the forcing cone and into the rifling about 1/2" and my gun was locked up. Pushed the bullet back into the case and checked it out. There was unburnt powder in the cavity of the bullet so I know I didn't miss charging it. I'm blaming the primers that came in this cheap teardown brass
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Anon05/10/26, 20:52No.65145800
Hey cunts:
Call
Ya MuddasAnd wish her a happy Mothers Day!Pic is the mak i did my 380s out of
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Anon05/11/26, 04:03No.65146473
Here's a wierd question, ball handle vs roller handle, what do you prefer? I have a Lee turret on a pretty compact setup, thinking about getting a roller handle but is it worth it?
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Anon05/12/26, 00:14No.65148405
Really got to see about annealing, god damn.
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Anon05/12/26, 17:39No.65150132
Reorganizing my components onto shelves I put up last week
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Anon05/12/26, 17:40No.65150136
Much better.
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Anon05/12/26, 21:41No.65150667
.45 Super anon. My friend is the most real life min/maxer I have ever met, so naturally, he has a G36 slide on a G30 frame. I was thinking about getting him a barrel and recoil spring and loading up a batch of .45 Super as a birthday gift. Apparently, Lone Wolf doesn't make a barrel for that. What do you think of this barrel and can you recommend a recoil spring? Also, where is the best place for loading data?
https://www.combatarmory.com/combat-armory-barrel-fits-glock-36-45acp-barrel/
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Anon05/12/26, 23:49No.65150882
Got a question for yall as a newfag - how good are ultrasonic cleaners for mopping up brass? Rudimentary searches show they get the job done, but the cases aren't shiny. Don't care so much about the latter if it cleans them up nice, but curious to know if any of yall have experience with using them and if they're worth a damn or not.
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Anon05/13/26, 20:21No.65153041
Bump
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Anon05/14/26, 02:42No.65154027
Wish I could reload 7.62x39 But it's a pipedream because of how it's produced, the boxer primed brass is hard to find in North America, The lighter Odd oversized light .30 cal bullets are uncommon, OH, and now we have Dementia Donald fucking up the supply of everything.The whole powder situation is going to get even worse, I haven't seen a pound of IMR 4064 since 2018
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Anon05/15/26, 21:56No.65158322
Bump