gungate
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Thanks! I picked those out of the home Depot 2x4 pile and made this myself. Only took a couple hours. I have a very specific size I needed for my space.
Thanks! I picked those out of the home Depot 2x4 pile and made this myself. Only took a couple hours. I have a very specific size I needed for my space.
Picked one up and going through all the mods to make it run smooth, seems to do the job.Finished setting up the Lee APP, at least for the moment. Whenever I finally have a decent use case for it, I'll probably buy a Dillon case feeder and hook that up.
Also set up the 45 Auto bullet feeder on 650 #2. The bullet feeder was easy enough (and required almost zero tweaking besides the ramp position and the feeder angle), but the die was a complete pain in the neck. I eventually had to relocate the ball bearings down to the lower position, which I hadn't had to do on either 9mm or 223. I'm happy now, though, it's working great and I can load all the 45 Auto I could ever want. Next stop will be setting up the 308 toolheads for prep and load.
As people can see from the ads lately, I've also been spending some quality time cleaning out old reloading gear I don't need anymore. My reloading space is a total mess, and I need to get rid of things I don't use/need (soon to include a Uniflow and a bench primer).
'Murica!Good day.. went to the range, rezero'd the wsm with hunting ammo, had some 15-20 gusts from 9:00, good read on the wind at 100. Sent a bunch of handloads through the Sig P228 and processed the brass to be reloaded. Finally got a break in the humidity and made some 'merican looking 147gr 9mm boolits.
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Yes you can still use the bullet in that case.I did the first seating-depth test putting an actual bullet in a case. Case was empty and clean (no primer or powder) but I wanted to test bullet seating depth. It was exactly 100% spot on the first time exact measurement (using calipers) as my factory ammo. Then I used my bullet extraction hammer and got to see how that worked. Took more force than I anticipated but I was able to slam the bullet out after around 10 raps.
I also put 4 cases in, ran the ram to the top, and loosened all 3 carriage locking screws trying to get my bullets to line up better with the dies. That doesn't seem to have done much good I still have to guide the bullets into several of the dies. I hope this will work itself out when I do an actual run. Next up is check the powder charge.
Question: My bullets have a wax ring around them. Putting one bullet in and removing it I can still use that bullet again right?