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Yeap, one of the most underrated reloading tools...

 

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Going to give the R22 a try in the old M96 Swede.

 

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Will do, I'd tried it in the M38 and it did well (if I ignore the pull), shown below, so this will be to try the M96.

 

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Just got a chargemaster for Christmas. My shop / reloading area isn't heated and the manual seems to warn about exposure to extreme cold, so I've brought it back down to the house.

To prep for this weekends loading session, I think I've found a use for all my Type 1 diabetic son's test strip containers I'd been saving over the years...they should be inert so can't imagine they would bother the powder. Guess we'll find out. Loaded some up and will just dump the powder into primed cases this weekend when I get a chance to reload. Pre-measuring 48 grains for 7.5x55 rifle loads (that pretty well fill the case) so no chance for double charging and the flashlight test after filling all the cases will quickly show if I messed up somewhere +/-.

 

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Got some good Finnish M39 Mosin food finally

 

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Not ammo but related: I wanted my primer portable so I mounted it to some boards and added a bungee so it self returns to high port.

 

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Just some general use ‘06 for the Garands and springfields

 

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Converting some 270 and 30-06 brass to 7.65 Argentine.

 

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Cowart's may have some PPU 7.65 Argentine in stock. I know he had some a couple of months ago.

Now, you know half the fun is making your own LOL.

Thanks, but truth be told, I have about 80 rounds of PPU but I just can’t stand to shoot factory hardly anymore. I’ll slowly shoot it but going ahead and doing this so I can work on some hand loads that are fine tuned for the rifle.

To answer Hotrod, it’s no more trouble than converting 06 to 8 mm. I just chop it to a close length so it won’t outgrow the die length, lube and resize, then trim. Annealing is probably needed but I’ll wait and see how these last.

 

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New 6.5x55, blasphemy! Lol

You need some brass?

 

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I've never had a 9mm case with a crimped primer pocket.

With 400 cases primed, do you load that many in one setting? I usually only load at most a couple hundred at a time. Can you leave primed cases in storage and load at a later date? If so, is there a specific way to store them to maintain the integrity of the primers?

Just store them like you would the primers...away from heat and moister. Ammo can, zip lock, desiccant if desired. Just because they got pushed into a case doesn’t cause them to age differently than in the sleeve/box.

 

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Started working on prepping some .223 brass, got down to the last (06) pieces and this happened. Oh well, I'll get the sized pieces swaged after lunch.

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Get a Lee universal decapper and install the Squirrel Daddy hardened decapping pin and you’ll never be down again. It even turns berdan into boxer lol

Replacement Decapping pin for Lee 90783 / 90292 die set

Squirrel Daddy Decapping pin are offered in hardened steel or standard high grade USA melt steel. Replacement pins fit Lee Dies and are offered in high grade steel or heat treated steel either expanding or straight side decapping pins.

www.squirreldaddy.com

 

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Swede

 

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Helped a friend build a jig to cut 223 brass down to blackout. Cut 300 cases down, ran through a die to form and trimmed to length. Working on a jig for me to trim down 223 to make 7.62x25 Tokarev brass.

The blackout ones or getting to be common 3D printer items

 

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Getting the 270 dies set up. For the record H4831SC smells almost as bad as Varget.

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Do they show crimping?

 

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Trying out some hi-tek coating (2 coats so far)

 

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0.311 174gr w/ IMR4350 for the Argentine Mauser next Saturday.

 

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Rob the expander from a 7.62x54R or even a 30-06 or 308 die (if they are boat tail and not flat base).