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  1. Posted

    15 hours ago, jbendix said:

      -- Is this a good on-line supplier, for powder, bullets, primers? 
    https://www.midwayusa.com/reloading-supplies/

      -- Other?, please feel free to suggest or generally comment opinion. 
      -- Gotchas to look out for, recommendations of "better for the few cents more" stuff; or, no not worth it use [some-other-clever-way]?

    [Do I need to start a new thread with this, my question(s), or OK to proceed from here in this one? Let me know the "protocol", preference, "culture" here, -- I would not otherwise know.] 


     

    Midway has a lot of stuff but I find they are slow. things usually take more than a week to get to you. Sorry i missed this post, yesterday brownells had 1 cent hazmat and free shipping on $150+  on powder/primers. They do it once a month or so and their prices and speed are better than Midway.

    I have ordered powder from

    Grafs(they are a great company never have free hazmat but occasionally 1/ price and they have flat rate shipping. If you're ordering a bore brush only dont order from them but if you are ordering 2 tons of lead its the same shipping price.)

    Powder valley (used to have the best prices but I have noticed thats not true anymore)

    Brownells(good sales, good stock)

     

  4. Posted

    Reading through this thread , and being new here, Im thinking wow these guys are real mean to this guy. But then I saw he swings left so I guess its justified

    Curious though you mentioned it was stuck in the barrel in the beginning. Do you mean it was a poorly sized case stuck in the chamber?  I rarely case gauge maybe once every couple hundred rounds while loading. Ive had some bad loads over the years and even the worst ones, if you put some pressure on the charge handle and bounce the rifle on the bench it usually pops right out. If you cant take the gun apart this is the safest way. Just keep it aimed upward in the general direction of downrange. Seek help from a RO if your range has one if you need to do this.

  5. Posted

    Not if its done before tumbling. I used to manually go though all cases and check each would clear with a straight dental pick. Switched to lizard bedding and pieces were too small to stick. Then switched to wet ss pins don't stick either

    I suppose you could run a universal decapping die to clear them if you have a spare station before priming

  6. Posted

    Plinking ammo shouldn't be this hard to make. There are some weird things that happen though. I'd just try a little bit faster burning powder. I wouldnt push seating depth or trim length too far. You also want something that will drop into your other guns 

    So try a different powder

     

  7. Posted

    Any development on this? Loads improving? I generally in any rifle stick to factory dimensions with the exception of only bumping the shoulder back a few thousandths of an inch assuming all the rounds are for the same rifle. The brass will last longer(assuming no annealing)  and be a bit more accurate this way. The powder is generally where I play

    Dillon 600 swage tool is great if you only pick up your own brass. I bought 5k once fired LC a few years ago and processed it all. I havent had to reprocess yet but I'm affraid I've picked up more than my own brass so I may have to reswage it all. It would be nice if it were on machine like the 1050. I may be forced to put the 3rd party swager on my 650 to save the time

  10. Posted

    Dont do it. Go to a real plumbing supply shop and buy a decent valve name brand(apollo,nibco, etc) and domestic. If they dont have one with cpvc ends get a threaded one with cpvc male adapters. I have had them slip on me. Im not sure what kind of pressure you are running in your house but ive had caps push off of copper on me at around 50 psi

    and dont forget the 3rd valve if you are running a bypass around the softener. 

    As a side note most softeners have a bypass built into the head.

  16. Posted

    Fully loaded I have 4000 9mm, 3000 45, 1000 22, 1500 223, 400 308, 200 6.5 grendel

    I like to set up 1 process at a time. So once any caliber is getting low Ill load it to my max. This may take multiple sittings as I have a 6 month old baby that gets in the way :)

    I usually shoot 200 9mm, 100 45, and 150 223 or 50 308

    Ill sort after each shooting day and when a box is full Ill clean(wet in the warmer months and dry in the coldest months)

    I used to go crazy sorting head stamps but now I only do that for 6.5 and 308

  17. Posted

    I was out saturday. about an hour outside 30 minutes inside

    Pros: your shooting and there's not a line

    Cons: you lose most of your brass if there's snow, Its cold,

    Glove shooting has never worked for me so i glove up while not shooting and load mags in the truck.

  18. Posted

    I think you can go more on the soap but stay where youre at with the lemishine

    Im not sure of the exact mix for your size tumbler. I use a tumbler which is is 2 gallon,s 13lbs of brass, and 15lbs of media(just a little bigger than the FA which is 1.84 gallons

    My recipe that has worked very well is 2 -1 second squirts of dawn and a 45 case of lemishine. I know it sounds like an italian grandmas sauce recipe but it works.

     

  19. Posted

    I think it probably was how it dried. I started with the 2 towels and a fan technique. Dump brass in a colander and drain as well as you can, then dump in a bath towel and make like your polishing a bowling ball, then dump and spread out on a towel on the floor, and finally run a fan over the brass to help evaporate the remaining moisture. Not the most effective but it works pretty well I was never left with too much moisture. I just always felt that the primer pockets were left a little damp.

     

    Some people will place on a baking sheet and stick it in their oven at 200 or so, my wife didnt like this

    I bought one of these https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1016931592/hornady-case-and-parts-dryer

    they work very well brass is toasty warm and dry within an hour

  20. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Heavyopp said:

    Wow $10 a bucket,  It's not even worth it for me to keep tripping over these things,  Guess I'll just throw them in them away...

    Allow me to throw them away for you. best I,ve found is 60 per 1000 shipped from an online store/ gunbroker starts @60 and you have to add shipping

    Privately 30-40 per 1000 is a good price

    One of the best prices aside from private forums on any brass is Monmouth reloading in Manalapan but they wont allow you to pick it up so the shipping kills it.

  21. Posted

    9 hours ago, Heavyopp said:

    How much .45 you looking for? --  I have buckets upon buckets of .45 acp -- mostly federal once fired police range brass

    I'd have to look up the going rate per 1000 -- I have no idea what it cost to buy brass -- I'd be happy to meet you somewhere to save you any shipping cost

    I think its 10$ a bucket I'll take 2

  22. Posted

    There's a guy at my range that is there 2 hours before they open to hit the entire range and he cleans up after every event. I asked him about it because I kept getting frustrate about never finding any brass. He goes 3-5 times a week and shoots maybe 1 event a week. I asked him what he sells the brass for. He says he doesn't and that he has 100x the brass he'll ever need

  24. Posted

    Honestly, Id buy twice. Buy yourself something that will get the job done for the time being. More than 1/2 of precision shooting is the shooter. So if you buy a sub $1000 gun you will be happy with is precision for a while. until you better yourself with precision shooting. a $10000 rifle wont do you too much better than the $1000 one. I should have gone this route, instead I bought a custom 1st and it took me 9 months to get the first time and I shipped it back 8 times over the following 3 years and eventually parted it out. I could have been out shooting a 1/2-3/4 moa gun instead of waiting 3 years for a 1/4 moa gun that on the last attempt fired by itself as soon as the bolt closed.

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