My Gunpa passed away recently and I’m trying to help my Nana sort through and sell his reloading stuff. Any advice about best way to go about it? They were in the process of building a new home so she has about 6-9 months before she moved.

Update
I appreciate all the heartfelt messages, he was an awesome guy.

We are located in central Oklahoma

I would love to get into reloading and carry on his passion however I wouldn’t even know where to start and have enough space for it at my house. He died pretty suddenly and I regret not asking him more about it. He did take me shooting often and taught me a lot about proper gun safety. If my Nana had more time before she was moving I would try to sort through it and learn.

He wasn't big, but for a first time, with my own hand loads, to fully processing it to wrapped packages. What an experience. 178eldx dropped him in his tracks.

223 brass deprimed and ready for a wash

Any recommendations for something other than stainless steel pins not often but they have a tendency of getting stuck in the primer hole

The drum on my lee auto drum- post drop doesn't come back to the top center any farther than this. I believe its supposed to to about another 10-15 degrees counter clockwise. The drum spins freely enough and ive tried different tightness on the drum screw. When its at the top there is some play in how i can spin it back to center but the spring tension doesn't (for lack of a term) push, it there? This causes my throws to be variable in weight? What am I missing to fix this?

Lee wack a mole decapping pin for the .303 Brit stuck in empty casing. How do I get it out without damaging the pin (this is my second pin and I’m not tryna pay 39 bucks for another one😭🙏🙏🙏🇮🇱)

I got a bit of a chuckle. I saw the buckets appear a few weeks ago and they originally said “brass”.

I saw some normal trash in them a week later.

Today both the bucket and the garbage had signs.

Hello, a while ago I inherited a RCBS rock chucker press from the family. I also inherited a 300 weatherby rifle that was my grandfather's. Im thinking about getting into reloading, specifically the 300 brass from said rifle, maybe other cailbers later on. But im wondering what exactly I would need to get started. Like I said ive got the press already, which has what I believe is a #4 holder in the piston. I know the press alone is a good chunk of money so the other supplies I need shouldn't be a crazy amount from my understanding. Ive done a little research already and found a die set on RCBS website for this caliber.

Those who reload for a shadow 2, what projectiles have worked well for you? Looking for 124-130gr.

So I ran 400 rounds of my load fine up until the second to last stage of today’s match. When making ready at the second to last stage, my gun would not go into battery. Is that ammo issue? Or is it because I hadn’t cleaned my gun lol. I know a dirty feeding ramp can cause this? I’m just paranoid there’s something wrong with my reloads now lol

I’ve been loading 178gr ELD-X over 43.5 gr of Varget and getting good results. I just bought a box of 175gr Barnes LRX and would like to start finding the best load for my rifle. Barnes says 39.5-43.9 Varget but I was wondering if anyone had experience that would help me narrow it down a bit more. I’m thinking 42-43.5 but thought I’d jump on here and see if anyone had other/better thought.
.308 bolt Tikka w/ 22.4” bbl 1-10 twist
Starline brass
CCI 200

Hello, i was thinking about buying a new progressive press. I want to reload 223. I was thinking about x-10 or Dilion 750 but I don’t know what is better.

X-10
I like the x-10 because of the 10 stations also it is cheaper and I like how it looks, but I when I checked reviews lot of people say it jams, powder is inconsistent, support is bad and in general that is not as good as it looks (at least what I heard)

Dilion XL-750
On the other hand there is dilion. I didn’t really find people saying bad things about it. It is more expensive, it has fewer stations(5- which is not a problem but I wanted the crimp and seating die separated but also with a powder check a bulletfeeder). Also I like that Dillon makes it own dies.

So what is your opinion is one of them better or are they in performance the same. What is from your perspective better and more consistent press

Also can I use my Lee dies or should I go with buying new if yes which?

I know there was a post 2 years ago but I was wondering if something changed. I think I was really negative on the X-10

Loaded up a ladder of 223 using ramshot x-terminator and 55gr hornady fmj-bt's. 2.200 COAL

Seating was a very satisfying experience compared to all the labour for case prep.

Hola todos, mi nombre es Cleto, hace unos 20 años que recargo, arma corta sobre todo.
Hace un par de años consegui una RCBS Ammo Master bastante destartalada y con bastante paciencia logré hacerla andar y con muy buenos resultados.
Basicamente es una progresiva de 5 estaciones, con colocador de fulminantes.
Tuve que usar la imaginacion para algunos repuestos que ya no se consiguen, pero salió andando y con excelentes resultados.
La uso solo para 9mm, el primer die lo hago en una mono estacion, para tener mejor control de las vainas.
En la primer estacion tengo un expanding die Hornady, segunda hacia abajo coloca el fulmi, hacia arriba vuelca la polvora con un tolva Lee automatica ( la RCBS original estaba molida ), tercera estacion un bullet feeder die Lee con capacidad de 50 puntas en un tubito, la cuarta estacion altura y crimp con die Lee, y la quinta y ultima estacion un 4to die Lyman que repasa toda la muni armada.
Me gustaria escuchar sus comentarios.

Made a knockoff black hills 77gr TMK load.
22.6gr of IMR 8208 XBR, Sierra 77gr TMK bullets, Winchester No 41 primers, and spent Monarch brass. Trimmed to 1.75” and OAL of 2.255”

Intend these to be my pig hunting load. What do y’all think?

Can you all provide recommendations/recipes for cleaning brass without using those expensive dry/tumblers?

Been hunting for over 25 years, 1 year into reloading and I filled my first tag with my own hand rolled rounds.

175 eldx over 70 grains of StaballHD in Hornady brass giving me 2790 fps from a 22" Proof barrel. Had to back down powder charge & give up some velocity to get the grouping I want, but this load is pretty consistently sub 0.75 MOA from my gun with me on the trigger.

414 yard shot, broke both shoulders and was a full pass through so no bullet to recover/examine. The cow made it about 20 yards and was dead.

Same loads one annealed one not. I expected a velocity gain before looking at the data due to the significantly cleaner brass. Better chamber seal on the annealed brass = more efficiency and velocity. 🤷 not so based on the numbers. Oddly enough both first rounds were the fastest out of the group. Fired days apart with the same brass.

Does anyone have quickload account. I don’t have a desktop to get my own account. I accidentally bought Hornady 190gr sub-x instead of 170gr for sub loads in 30-30 and want to know if it’s a possibility since Barnes has 190gr load data but I have found nothing for the 190 sub x for 30-30. TIA

Bought a couple of totes of brand new 12 and 20 gauge ACTIV hulls. Problem is, I can’t find any load data for BP’s DGS line of slugs. The manual has cheddite and fiocchi hull load data, so I’m not sure if you can use ACTIV hulls as a sub for those or not. Thanks!

If you do, where do you get your supplies?

Was thinking of making sabot rounds for .223 Rem, 30-06 and 45-70.

Finally have the rifle to proceed with load development, I waiting on my 203 grain hammer hunter tippeds to get here as an alternative to the 212 lrx. Gonna pick up 1 more powder probably but my local selection is thin so I gotta figure that out soon. Ignore all the parts on the ground im building a 5.3 Chevy too and my reloading room has turned into a storage room for the time being. The rifle has exceeded my expectations so far handling it, the fit and finish is awesome, the trigger is insanely crisp, I got a new fortis scope mount to replace the rings on there currently the scope itself is an Athlon cronus 4.5-29x gen2 and I also have a brake for the suppressor if recoil ends up being an issue. I really dig the color and pattern I requested these colors and a chunky camouflage pattern and they totally delivered. The mcmillan elr hunter stock feels excellent although I kinda wish I would have waited for the rok stok because I like the negative comb. I will be trying to do a complete review when I have loads developed for it and can confirm its accuracy. Shout out unknown munitions and suppressors they knocked it out of the park on this custom tikka. The loads im developing first will be

1. 212 grain lrx bore rider

2. 203 grain hammer hunter tipped

3. 215 grain berger hybrid

4. 178 grain absolute hammer

5. Maybe a bonded bullet like accubond lr or terminal ascent.