What did do today on your loading bench !

Lane · May 1, 2020

Turned everything on yesterday and leveled the scales; everything worked fine... The only problem was that it is impossible to read the display on the RCBS Chargemaster screen without viewing directly above it. My current goal is simply a functional and ergonomic setup. The original layout was nice; but if I can't read the screen, the Chargemaster is difficult to use. So today I worked on a new arrangement.

Spent a little while passing the dish around, and so far it's not all that bad. I might make it a higher priority to adjust the Chargemaster screen if it slows me down; but I think I can get used to it. Sadly there is no contrast adjustment; and I'm not sure it would help anyway. That would require taking it apart the scale module and "fixing" the angle of the display. First order of business is programming loads into the memory slots while it's up front and handy.

shooterrex · May 1, 2020

A mirror at the proper angle might work.

Sisco · June 8, 2020

Sorted brass. Lots and lots of brass

Sisco · July 25, 2020

Loaded 60 rounds of 44 magnum brass. Cci Primers, 24 grn H110 powder, and 240 grn Hornady JHP’s. 400 308.- 200 ea PPR brass and Winchester Brass. 168 Grn Hornady AMAX bullets, 42.5 Grn RL15 powder. Thanks DPete!

Edited July 28, 2020 by Sisco

dpete · July 25, 2020

Your welcome @Sisco! As long as I'm here I'll add that I loaded up 194 pieces (all I had that came with the rifle) of the 375 Socom. 46.4 grains of AR Comp under the 200 gr Sierra flat point. Time to see what they do at more than 50 yards.

Edited July 25, 2020 by dpete

Albroswift · July 26, 2020

On 7/24/2020 at 5:19 PM, Sisco said:

Loaded 60 rounds of 44 magnum brass. Cci Primers, 24 grn H110 powder, and 240 grn Hornady JHP’s. 400 308.- 200 ea PPR brass and Winchester Brass. 168 Grn Hornady ELX bullets, 42.5 Grn RL15 powder. Thanks DPete!

24 of H110 behind a jacketed bullet is a tight fit. What do you end up with for COL?

No whimps 44 loading for sure! :hail:

XTP mags or corelocks?

Ever try the 260gr Interlock? Designed for 444 marlin but a good bullet for the 44.

Sisco · July 26, 2020

2 hours ago, Albroswift said:

24 of H110 behind a jacketed bullet is a tight fit. What do you end up with for COL?

No whimps 44 loading for sure!

XTP mags or corelocks?

Ever try the 260gr Interlock? Designed for 444 marlin but a good bullet for the 44.

XTP’s, actually still had a little room Left. No flattened primers, no signs of overpressure. Quite accurate in my Henry 44 mag carbine. Haven’t tried it in my S&W wheel guns yet. That is the max H110 load without going into the red in the Hornady reloading manual for that bullet.I can’t remember the COL offhand, but it was the spec in the Hornady manual for that bullet.

98Z5V · July 26, 2020

6 minutes ago, Sisco said:

That is the max H110 load without going into the red in the Hornady reloading manual for that bullet.I can’t remember the COL offhand, but it was the spec in the Hornady manual for that bullet.

From what I've seen throughout the years, the Hornady reloading data is conservative, quite a bit so. All my precision rifle loads are always over whatever the max listed is. Just where ever they work out for that particular gun or load, but they're always over the top of the table numbers.

NOTE FOR OTHERS - I do NOT condone starting out with a load that's OVER the max listed in any reference material. However, if you're well-versed in this stuff... Where you end up is where you end up. Just be smart about it.

Sisco · July 27, 2020

1 hour ago, 98Z5V said:

From what I've seen throughout the years, the Hornady reloading data is conservative, quite a bit so. All my precision rifle loads are always over whatever the max listed is. Just where ever they work out for that particular gun or load, but they're always over the top of the table numbers.

NOTE FOR OTHERS - I do NOT condone starting out with a load that's OVER the max listed in any reference material. However, if you're well-versed in this stuff... Where you end up is where you end up. Just be smart about it.

Yeah, I realize that. Generally unless I have. a specific goal I don’t load up to the max anyway. I wanted this load to be comfortable to shoot in the carbine and the wheelguns.interchangeably.

98Z5V · July 27, 2020

20 minutes ago, Sisco said:

Yeah, I realize that. Generally unless I have. a specific goal I don’t load up to the max anyway. I wanted this load to be comfortable to shoot in the carbine and the wheelguns.interchangeably.

Makes perfect sense to me, especially to run it in both. My 45/70 load could go up another 5.0 grains. Yeah, fuk that. Everyone here that has shot that bastard knows that another full 5 grains of powder would be just brutal. It sucks as it is now... :laffs:

MikedaddyH · July 27, 2020

28 minutes ago, 98Z5V said:

Makes perfect sense to me, especially to run it in both. My 45/70 load could go up another 5.0 grains. Yeah, fuk that. Everyone here that has shot that bastard knows that another full 5 grains of powder would be just brutal. It sucks as it is now...

Duct tape a Maxi-Pad on the Buttstock and just do it .Bitches will bleed ! 😭

Sisco · July 27, 2020

On 7/24/2020 at 10:22 PM, dpete said:

Your welcome @Sisco! As long as I'm here I'll add that I loaded up 194 pieces (all I had that came with the rifle) of the 375 Socom. 46.4 grains of AR Comp under the 200 gr Sierra flat point. Time to see what they do at more than 50 yards.

Wish I had brought my phone today. Shot that load in Your PPU brass. Five shots , 100 yards, could cover them with a quarter out of my M1A. Found my new go to load and bullets. Shot 20 total and my M1A loved them.

Edited July 27, 2020 by Sisco

Sisco · July 27, 2020

On 7/26/2020 at 4:19 PM, Albroswift said:

24 of H110 behind a jacketed bullet is a tight fit. What do you end up with for COL?

No whimps 44 loading for sure!

XTP mags or corelocks?

Ever try the 260gr Interlock? Designed for 444 marlin but a good bullet for the 44.

Thanks for the 260 gr interlock tip. May try that. Might be good for Alaska for the bear medicine we have to carry fishing.

Albroswift · July 28, 2020

May have misspoke, 265 gr. 260s are for the 454.

Sisco · July 28, 2020

12 minutes ago, Albroswift said:

May have misspoke, 265 gr. 260s are for the 454.

Gotcha, thanks.

shooterrex · July 28, 2020

.452 jacketed projectiles for my 454.

.454 lead cast in my 454.

.430 would be a little small.

Albroswift · July 28, 2020

8 hours ago, shooterrex said:

430 would be a little small.

Yes, the 260gr bullets I was thinking of were .452 FAFPs, bought a bunch from Freedom Arms a while back. Doesn't look like they sell bullets any more. Brain getting a little fuzzy.

Sisco · July 28, 2020

Error: Those were AMAX 168 gr Bullets I loaded not ELX. Ordering more right now. They are great!

Sisco · August 1, 2020

Strange thing my box of 100 AMAX bullets only contained 90. Call Hornady Monday.

Albroswift · August 9, 2020

Loaded up a couple ladders for the 6.5CM, 123gr SSTs and 143gr ELD X with H4350.

Then 500 rounds of 45ACP. Got 10 lbs of the cleanest brass I've ever seen, bro got it off Facebook something or other. Problem was it was about 15% small primer 45. What a pain, if you are listening Speer, Federal, Blazer, WTFO?

Man it's hard to tell the difference by eye! And sorting brass with the progressive is not the way to fly.

At least the blazer headstamp was all the small, but Fed and Speer headstamped brass came in both large and small.

MikedaddyH · August 9, 2020

Scored the last brick of 1000 Win WLP primers in town 🤸 also picked up a 1000 CCI#34 primers. Got. Pound of Varmint and Longshot along with a box of Hornady 150gr fmj/bt . It was a good week. Can't find any SRP or SPP in the east valley of Phoenix. I went to six stores. Supplies are getting thin again.