I went to a gun show today and found and purchased 1 pound of Accurate 1680 (for which I have been looking for 3 years) and one box each of CCI No. 34 & No. 41 primers. After I got home I sorted my most recently tumbled batch of .45 ACP brass.
I went to a gun show today and found and purchased 1 pound of Accurate 1680 (for which I have been looking for 3 years) and one box each of CCI No. 34 & No. 41 primers. After I got home I sorted my most recently tumbled batch of .45 ACP brass.
My local cabelas has had 1680 pretty regularly for the last year or so. I finally picked up a pound to try out, still haven’t even opened the container yet though.
I stopped at a Cabela's in North Georgia in the Summer of 2015 and didn't find any. I did find it online, but didn't want to pay the hazmat fee.
I sorted more .45 ACP WCC headstamp brass and knocked the primers out of some .45-70 cases and a few more .30-06 cases.
If you buy it online and pick it up at the store you can avoid the hazmat. I’m only about 40 minutes from a cabelas, so it’s not a huge deal for me.
Mebbe.....but there ain't no Cabela's near me. But, I have two different places that run gunshows quarterly in town on two seaparate places. If I run low I can just go to one of them. But really, I am pretty stocked up on everthing. This is because I wait for one of the online places to have sales where they waive the hazmat fees. Sooner or later one of them does it and I usually go bam, and order a few more jugs.
I try to cash in on grafs $20 hazmat on occasion
I piddled around in the garage, knocked primers out of some .30-06 brass, running a flash hole uniformer in some different .30-06 cases, and cleaning some NOS Bair dies I recently bought off of Gun Broker.
I'm ran some .45 ACP and .45-70 brass through the tumbler today.
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I need to spend less time playing video games on my days off and more time reloading
Sold my Saiga AK .223. It was sort of a redundant gun after I had swapped a pistol with a guy for an AR. I actually liked the Saiga a bit better, it was very accurate. But I like I can switch uppers and fire 300 AAC Blackout and shoot two calibers out of the same lower. Also I can shoot both .223 and 5.54 with the AR, could only shoot .223 from the Saiga.
Still on the process of replacing all my cardboard boxes of reloads to plastic boxes. Some of my cardboard has been used and opened so many times they are getting pretty ratty. I get like 10 new plastic boxes a week and start transferring reloads. Was .45 ACP turn's yesterday.
Replaced more .45 reloads from cardboard boxes to plastic. Started on some 9mm to do the same. Got 2 pounds of Hodgdon Clays powder for when I reload some 12 gauge shotshells, though I still need to mount the Lee Load-All press on a wood base.
WarEagle, too bad your so far away, a local guy i bought some stuff off of has 3 1lb containers of the 1680
I have been a little too busy spending all my free time working on me and my brother's boat and trailer to get ready for fishing. So far we've, replaced a cracked axle and rusted out leaf spring on the trailer, and we've replaced all the rollers and the boat support wood and reupholstered the wood. WE put in two LED taillights and totally rewired everything. We afro engineered some PVC pipe to create new boat guides. We bought a trashed out Mass Tracker boat and cannibalized the 70 horse motor on it for the 30 horse we had on our boat. Stole the speedometer, tachometer, and voltmeter and cut new holes and installed them on the dash. We put in new switches and fuseblocks and a cigarette lighter in the dash to connect a Q-Beam we had for night fishing. We rewired ALL electrical. Acid washed the boat to get all the old stains out. Replaced most of the brasswork. Replaced the bow and stern lights. Rebuilt the carbs on the 70 horse. Put in 4 strips of LED lighting for the boat interior and installed an LED dash light for the console. Finally took the boat out on the river yesterday, she hauls now. Hit the gas and you head snaps back. Ran it full out, hit about 40 going with the wind, and like 35 going against it. That's a little better than the 7-9 we were getting on the 30. Still need to put in a new sending unit for the speedometer and maybe get a second battery to run all the new lighting when we go night fishing at the oil rigs.
Back to processing brass after taking a few days off! Finished up the 40's and started on the 45's yesterday. Found more small primer stuff than I remembered. Probably work on 45's all week and hopefully get back smelting wheel weights Friday and Saturday.
I just got done loading 6,000 223/556. I have been working on that off and on since November. Man I'm glad that's done. I'm moving onto 9mm. I have around 6500 bullets but only 1500 primers so hopefully I can catch a good sale on 5,000 primers soon.
Cabelas has the S&B primers on sale now for $23.79 I used over 10,000 of them last year and never had any problems.
http://www.cabelas.com/product/SELLI...CK/2002898.uts
I picked up 2 boxes of the S&B small rifle primers, only used them on test loads so far but they seemed to work well.
Finally sat down and sized all 150 of my 458 socom cases, they’ll go in the wet tumbler with a few hundred 45acp cases tomorrow.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |