What Did You Do in the Reloading Room Today?

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I wept as I watched the stock of my SR primers dwindle away while making up some 5.56 after yesterday’s range trip. Oh the agony 🥲
 
Found myself scouring the floor and countertop with a magnifying glass to salvage any powder that may have escaped during the reloading process today, desperate times, desperate measures!
 
20 Gauge and .410 bore. The next session is 9MM and .45 ACP and perhaps .380 ACP also.
 
i tried to sell more, but no takers so, i just stashed'm, oh well, no more community service for me, lol.
now i kinda wished i'd a not sold any, oh well, life happens, still have about 30k of reloads in 9, maybe 8k in 38spl, another 4 k in 357, and have no idea of .45 and .223
but i'm a reloader, and a shooter, just haven't been able to get out in the last month of so, to burn some, probably gonna regret it, hope to get out as i have a couple builds to test fire and a .45 acp ar to finger out damm thing is kinda finicky
Rj
 
If I have time this weekend, I'm going to throw together a tilted table base for my HF Chop Saw/300 Blackout cutting jig. I think it'd work a lot better if the cut brass and waste simply slide out of the way and into a bin. Have also though about mounting it horizontally so that the brass gets fed from the top rather than the side.
 
FWIW, I started using a gallon of distilled water for a final rinse, and a hair dryer to dry my brass after wet tumbling. Don't mind spending a buck a batch, and seems to be working pretty well so far.
 
Loaded a couple hundred rounds of 9mm today...with a new to me powder.

Used Unique for the first time. Available load data is sketchy at best, but I've got 100 in 115gr and 100 in 147gr.

This is my first go around with 147gr projectiles. If I like the load, I'll do up the rest. I've actually been shooting a little, so I hope primers become available, sooner than later. #smh
 
I think you'll be happy. Unique is the only powder I've ever used for 9mm. 115gr has functioned well from anywhere between 4.6-5.0 grains, and 147s with 3.7-4.2 grains.
 
Tumbled a batch of 9mm and a batch of .223 in the garage while cleaning out the work truck. Received Lee 9mm dies yesterday from Midway. I’d been watching for them for a while, they popped up, I bought. My son is having some buddies over tonight for an end-of-school year celebration. Perfect time to be left alone in the reloading room while they have the Xbox cranked up.
 
Old Jeff H said:
I think you'll be happy. Unique is the only powder I've ever used for 9mm. 115gr has functioned well from anywhere between 4.6-5.0 grains, and 147s with 3.7-4.2 grains.
I went a little hotter on the 115gr. Data I found said up to 6.3. I loaded mine at 5.4.

I went 3.9 on the 147gr.
 
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