This was the before  I started cutting view looking from in front of my stand


After cutting with the push mower


View back to my deer stand

Quote from: The_Shadow on September 20 2020 08:06:26 PM MDT
This was the before  I started cutting view looking from in front of my stand

After cutting with the push mower

View back to my deer stand

That looks great and makes me jealous.  No hunting for me this fall.

Hey Wade nice pics and nice deer slaughter ground. He He. Anyway I just got done with the two turrets setting up with 10/40 on the Redding and 9mm on the Lyman. Was doing some 40 so It works with plenty of room for all dies with holes left over. It will be the same with the Lyman as with 6 holes I only need 5 on a bad day with 9mm. I can put the decapper anywhere and am still thinking on that.  Craig

threw all my fired 10mm brass in the tumbler. 

Range day on Saturday, because I needed to "empty" some 45 ACP brass. I had none left at home to load! 

Saturday morning I made up a batch of 9mm for my Mrs. with her favorite Unique & 147 grain Blue Bullets. Sunday afternoon was spent cleaning guns from the range trip on Saturday. A good weekend all-in-all.

loaded up that 10mm brass I tumbled the other day. 213 pieces. all with 10 grs of Long Shot and 180 gr HST bullets.

Quote from: gadabout on September 20 2020 04:58:12 PM MDT
I would love some ideas on my latest purchase on the 6 hole Lyman turret press. I have been thinking about moving the lee deprimer back to the Redding as it has a tube for spent primers. Any ideas would be nice even something that you are thinking about but don't have a second press. After all I am retired and a dreamer.   Craig

Check eBay. There is a guy on there that sells 3D printed primer catchers for various presses. I use one of the cheap RCBS partner presses for de capping and I bought one for it.


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Scored 4000 LP primers today. That's a good day nowadays.

How about some long range freedom seeds? 300 win mag....

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Got a little cooler dryer weather, took advantage and sanded the front door and side lights yesterday and put the first coat of paint on today!
I'll let the paint cure a couple of days the sand and repaint with a second coat...  May start on the porch post next...

I rescued a lonely pound of Unique I found at a store while traveling yesterday for $25.
There was also a herd of Varget that all wanted to ride in my truck but I balked at $35/Lb.

OK just finished off 50 9mm cases with the last 25 using the new Russian small pistol primers I got at the last gun show. They seem to go in just fine and I will compare them to the small rifle primers I had to use to empty the primer tube. The official name of the primers is WPA but the fine print on the box says made in Russia. Kind of fun stuff. I will post after I compare. I wish someone would explain to me why Russian primers are available but USA primers are not. Well don't bother to explain really.  Craig

Here is a good example of what a little brain damage can do.  I was finishing the small rifle primer comparison to Russian small pistol primers when I suddenly thought to myself I really need regular small pistol primers to compare to the Russian primers. Well what I loaded will tell me enough I feel. Then to top it off I bet I have 20,000 9mm loaded with small primers just sitting there I could of used to compare. I really need to test a bunch of stuff but it is now bow season so my usual target ranges are connected to land friends use to bow hunt. I don't want to scare the deer off. There is an indoor place but I don't like to spend the money to shoot there.  Craig

On the surface this may not sound reloading related:

We took possession of our mountain cabin/retreat.  The plot is 40 acres and is bounded on three sides by state-owned land.  There is a 2000 sq ft cabin, fully insulated, wired and plumbed.  We spent the weekend up there stocking up provisions and making plans to get the cabin usable year round.  Currently the only water is from a tank on the mountain and the power is from a gasoline generator.  There is a propane tank but heat is wood stove.  In the next four weeks we hope to have a well drilled, get the water line from the well->tank->house buried below the frost line and get 21Kw of solar panels installed along with an 18KwH battery bank (LiFePO) and a propane generator, along with some propane wall heaters.  It will make for some busy weekends.

Reloading related?  Once we get these items done, I will have my location where I can load up and walk outside to test the load.  Already have the 100 yard range defined, as well as a 25 yard pistol range.  With a little judicious trimming of some branches on the aspens, I should be able to see the 100 yard range berm from the deck.  Range from deck to berm will be 135 yards.

Got out to the range to shoot 40 cal and 9mm with the two types of primers. I could tell no difference between the rifle and Russian primers. The Russian shot fine and I will use them up in short order I feel. The 40 call still has problems and I may have to order a new barrel to fix the ramp issue as they are one. The gun shoots great when it feeds.  One last thing to try is FMJ reloads.  Craig