Lol, I'm one of the lucky hubbies. My wife lets me do my thing in the kitchen as long as I clean up my mess and do not leave it where she cannot get dinner ready or have the counters loaded up where she cannot make Heath bar cookies. And she can make the best cookies ever. When its just too hot outside to cast up some boolits I get out the casting pot with the water heater pan and get it set up on the stove and have at it. I'll never cast outside in the summer again. What a treat to do it inside with a/c.

This was my first group at 1250 with mine. Went 9 for 10 (have no idea where one shot went! LOL)... not bad for a little underpowered groundhog rifle....

Started on getting the brass I'm using to form 40-70 Sharps Straight cartridges processed. I am using 30-40 Krag for the donor brass, I just got the dies in yesterday so time to anneal the necks and shoulders for fire forming so as to remove the bottleneck shoulder, and to resize the base down to the size of the sharps. I use a cordless drill and a socket to spin the case in front of a torch and then dump the case into a water bath. Then I dry them in the oven at 235 for one hour, I then lube and run them through the sizing die to get the base of the case sized to the dimensions of the Sharps case, then I'm forced to wait, which I hate. I will not be able to do the fire forming for the shoulder removal until I get the rifle back with the new chamber cut to the Sharps cartridge. Oh how I hate waiting for this type of work to be finished, I'm always so in a hurry to have these projects finished so I can go play with a new shooter.

Good post. Do you not use Templaq?

trlrdrave, No, I've been doing this for quite a while, and when i started doing it there was not much out there like today to help you know kinda where you were temp wise. I'm not doing heavy annealing on these cases for this latest project, just enough so the chances of splitting the necks is reduced greatly. I rotate for about 6 seconds on the shoulder in this instance as opposed to the neck which is the usual reason and location of annealing. I'm moving both the neck and the shoulder so just a little softening in that area should produce the wanted results for the change in my fire forming. I'm sure one of these days I'll ruin some brass, you do anything long enough and the odds will no doubt catch up with you.
Here's some annealing to some 9.3 x 74R cases that I used to make my 3" 410 shotgun shells from. The two on the right are annealed by the factory, and look that way when you get them from Hornady. The two on the left are annealed by me in preparation for causing the back half, which is the thicker area, and the hardest area to fill out in fire forming for the 410 to fill out all the way.

Just got some HDS basic brass in that I've been looking for. Loaded them up with a Lyman 480 gr Postell.

Dang son

Just got the new resizing die in .501 so I can get the new cast boolits for the Swede rolling block loaded up with the new profile from MP molds I got a few weeks ago.
Had to trim some more 50 Alaskan down to 42mm and then load with about 4 grams of BP topped with a juice waxed carton wad and then topped with my olive oil and Crisco lube. Now their all ready to go.

Finally got around to loading some 40s. Gonna take these to the farm and make sure everything feeds like it’s supposed to.
165g Speers and 5g Bullseye.

Finished loading up the 38's and now see how they fit in the speedloader blocks we had the shop turn out with the help of the CNC router,











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I sized and sorted 1,000+pcs of .300blk

I set up my 9yr old swaging 5.56. He did quite well. He swaged at least 800pcs. He's about to have a couple of chores in the loading room. My bulk brass prep days may be over

I've been working on a good 300blk subsonic load that works in my AR pistol and bolt gun. Found one and loaded up 300rds.

Today I cleaned and sorted all of the smaller quantity brass I had laying around...

7mmRM
35Rem
308ME
7mm08
30-06
270
6.8SPCII

I did a lot of sorting a rainy day couple weeks ago. In the tumbler an 40S&W fits perfectly inside a 44mag. Had to use the bullet puller to get a bunch of them out.

A 223 Rem fits perfectly in the mouth of a 375 H & H magnum.

"Someone" once stuck a .32 acp case inside a .45 acp case. Had to take a hammer to separate them then lost that .45 case 2 range trips later. Rest in peace LC78.

I "thought" I was going to crank out a lot of 9mm today since it's been nothing but rain. Instead, I had to conduct a measuring and sorting experiment to get everything going. To make a long story short, not all 9mm cases will work with 147gr bullets. I finally started loading at about 2pm. I spent all morning and most of the afternoon measuring, pulling, and sorting.

Also, aguiila, cbc, and s&b headstamps are the ones that don't work with 147gr

(Also, aguiila, cbc, and s&b headstamps are the ones that don't work with 147gr)

CKyleC, that's great info to have. Guess it's time to start some sorting of my 9mm's too.

Why won’t they work?

9mm cases taper on the inside. 147's seat deeper than other bullets. Those cases apparently have sharper taper than other cases. Because of this taper those 3 cases have a ridge on the outside of the brass at the base of the bullet. The ridge is concentric and consistent.

The other cases also have the ridge, but it doesn't keep the cases from chambering.

The ridge on Aguila measures 0.391, CBC 0.390, and S&B 0.388. Some of the Aguila actually has what looks like a cannelure on the outside of the brass. I assume it's where it was crimped from the factory.

Win measures 0.386 and works. FC, PMC, Speer, Geco, R-P all work fine

I made 10 different measurements on 9 different headstamps, before and after sizing, seating, and crimping trying to figure out the issue.

I posted about this issue on 2 other forums and my results were consistent with other's experience. There's not a lot of documentation out there concerning this issue, but there is some.

Last night I sorted a 50cal can of 9mm brass.

Tday I loaded up 1k 9mm 147gr HST's