DeepSouth

My son sent me a marketplace ad link. Metal carts $35. Some have casters on corners and some Uboat style. Some have drawers, doors or shelves. They are at Holiday Lodge on Sardis Lake, MS. I sent a message for best time to see them.

No reply yet. Try to get there this weekend.

American Reloading, one order was taxed and the other wasn't last month.

I carried it to a local scrapyard. The guy said we don't buy ammo brass. What, I bought some 223/556 cases not to long ago. Yep, the guy got mad cause we wouldn't buy it, left it, gone before we could stop him. You got it before we could figure out what to do with it. My son said decap them, run fishing line through as many as needed for a slinky sinker.

Aquila is the only 9mm cases I've found with the ring. I scrap all Aquila and Perfecta, 223/556 flash holes are off center. Don't want to find in their other calibers.

Greg, all the ammo boxes that were rescued were painted blue, white tape added for load data of that box. Tape removed and trashed. Lost data.

Sorry if anyone thought I was selling this brass. Going to the scrapyard for a cheap price.

The manager wasn't there Saturday. I left my phone number so he can call me later.

Mine is a 12X26X31" shop cart. 3/4" plywood added to the bottom frame, pistol lock box added for storage, shelves on the side. The top is 2 layers of 3/4" plywood. Lee O frame mounted to the right. Lee powder measure mounted at the left. Lee bench mount primer behind it. Lee C frame mounted on the left end. Can roll it to any room in the house and fits all chairs. A 15" wide desk cabinet, shortened with casters added. Counter top flush on front, 3/4" overhand on sides, a bit more on the rear. Door and drawer on front for storage, Lee Loadmaster mounted on the rear, Lee C frame mounted on a side.

Dang, I remember buying it at gun shows for $2 per box.

I'm finding some 223 cases that won't fit a shell holder. Going through some old notes I found it. A Lyman TC-38 357-FL die, sizing die with the guts removed used as a bulge buster. Use a pusher from a bullet sizing kit. Lube the cases extra well. I know you're thinking, 1 case doesn't cost much, scrap it and replace it. A quart or gallon bag or 2 full is a bit different.

Not much going on here. I shoot at Sardis, MS, McLver gun range. $20 for half day noon till evening. Pistol and 100 yard rifle bays are covered and next to each other. Longer range a walk or short drive. Skeet, trap and archery areas too. I can check to see if we can set up canopies and grill for a meet.

RangeUSA had Magtect 9mm ammo for $14.99 on their Black Friday sale, back up to $19.99. With my order of 115 gr bullets It's about $9.50 per 100 to reload. The last new primers that dad got were when he helped Dennis at a Memphis gun show. Unload the trailer and set up displays Friday night, help with sales Saturday and Sunday, reload the trailer Sunday night. He got a sleeve of primers each day. Dennis pushed to many bottles of HP-38 on the display and 2 fell off the back. Dad put the lids back on, swept up the powder for the trash and brought the 2 half bottles home. Dennis was selling 223, 55 gr pulled bullets for 9 cents. Dad bought 500 for 5 cents.

"Are you lubing your cases and making sure you pull the handle all the way to the bottom?" Years ago I used SAE20W oil to lube cases. A bit messy but no stuck cases. I thought I'd move up some, spend some money and do as others. I went to Sportsman's Warehouse and bought a can of One-Shot. Read the label and applied to the cases. Of the first 10 5 got stuck. That wore me thin. I wiped them down pretty good with paper towels. Got my bottle of SAE20W oil out. Applied very little to my finger, rubbed my thumb on it, rolled a case between them and sized 10 cases before having to get another dab of oil. It took me longer to remove the stuck cases than sizing a 2 gallon bucket with the oil.

Found the problem, worn/broke linkage handle pin. Replaced with a 4" bolt for now. Sent about 300 through the sizing die last night. Will test load a few dummies today.

The sizing die isn't sizing the neck small enough for bullet not to fall into case body, none of them.

Who in the Memphis area loads 223? I'll bring my dies and a bag of cases to see what you can do.

"Your seating die isn’t the issue." It won't crimp enough, why isn't it the problem?

I counted 1,000 cases to work with. Measured until I found 1 at 1.755 and set the seating die to barely crimp the neck. Ran all through the seating to crimp the neck some. Measured with a bullet, separating those that a bullet would fall through and those that won't. Turned the seating die 1/2 turn in and ran those that go through again. Measured again with a bullet and separated. Did that 3 more times until bullet wouldn't fall through any of the cases. Used a nail set by hand to expand the neck enough so the bullet would start into the neck. Set up for making a few dummy rounds so seating die would be set. Screw the seating die in until it touches the shell holder and adding 1 full turn. Very little crimp on the neck using the RCBS die. Can turn bullet in crimped neck. Press bullet by hand into the case body. No crimping action with the 3 Lee's or 1 Lyman seating dies. Tried the factory crimp dies, no increase in tension on neck. I tried the Lee seating dies by hand. Can push case in until the head is flush with the bottom of the die and touching the crimp area. Sounds like the die is to long.

Primers were removed using a universal decapping die. I screw the die down to where I think it should be. Put a case in the holder and press down. While the handle is down I screw the die down until I see the handle move. Press the handle and adjust die depth until it can't move anymore. The Lee sets were new, the Lyman and RCBS bought used.

I went through a 2 1/2 gallon bag of 223/556 cases. Looked at headstamps first. Aquila and Perfecta cases went into the scrap bucket. Then I used a pin light down the neck, added some Berdan primed cases to the bucket. Then measured length, all cases over 1.755 got trimmed to 1.750. Then they were decapped. Then polished. (All 223 cases were between 1.735 and 1.756. All 556 cases were between 1.762 and 1.772) Only difference in length was the neck. Now here's my problem: I set the sizing die in the press and run a few through. Test with a .224 bullet, it falls through all of them. Have tried 3 Lee, 1 Lyman and 1 RCBS sizing dies, all the same. Measured the bullet, .224. Measured the decap pin, all 5, .220.

All the SPM primers I've shot fired right. You said, "one case of them just fizzed." 50,000 primers fizzed? I found blems at American Reloading $56 per 1,000, no shipping just state tax. The 200 I loaded hit the paper at 10 and 15 yards.

I'm reloading for free. Dad left me everything and I'm going through his records. The last primers he bought were $9.95 per 1,000. There are 12 of those 5 packs in a large box. Got lots of powder, most is in 8# jugs and 16# kegs. I went to an auction in April, different brands of primers, 100 per pack were selling for $15 to 22. My 9mm and 38spl don't have a problem shooting cast bullets and I've got tons of lead. New problem, both my sons' 9mm don't like lead bullets. Looking online jacketed bullets are $16 to 22 per 100. Range USA has ammo for $15 per box. Need a source for cheap bullets in 115 or 125 gr range.

I started out helping my dad and granddad cast sinkers. Molds were made of sheetrock mud and would have to be remade a lot. 1969, my first job was casting babbit bearings while at Dover Elev in Horn Lake, MS. Saturday overtime I cast sinkers for whoever wanted some. Started helping dad cast bullets in 1974, 38spl 100 to 160 grain round nose mostly. Wheel weights were pure lead. All loads were under start data. I've got lead, no hardness tester, $1 per pound, no shipping, pick up in Horn Lake, MS.

For those of us in the Memphis area Range USA has opened a location in Southaven, MS. It's on Hamilton Rd. Exit I-55 onto Stateline Rd headed east, Turn right at the first traffic light.