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I've spoken in the past about not using Blazer pistol brass for reloads and people tended to doubt me on my claims of case failures and inferior quality brass and also pointed out SPEER was made by the same manufacturer. When I do end up with Blazer brass it goes one of two places - the scrap...

have a problem I can't quite seem to diagnose to my satisfaction so I'm fishing for suggestions - I've got my swaged .40 JHPs I've mentioned before. Thing is - of late, when I seat them into the brass, they form a crease in the case . The crease is not overly profound and doesn't prevent the...

My cell phone camera is crap - but had the digital out this morning and grabbed a better picture of my swaged JHP .40 S&W projectiles. This started life as 2 fired 9mm shell casings. These were them polished, annealed to a cherry red and polished again. Then a 165 grain 9mm lead core was...

Smoked my new NOE 402-160 3 cavity mold this afternoon and put out 99 rounds. Finally down to the high 60's here in Dallas. Time to clean up the garage for the season's first reloading gathering......

has anyone ever seen an HK UMP40 in semi-auto only? If so - where might I come across one?

I'll pick up just about any piece of brass on the floor of a range as allowed. I recently picked up a bucket of range brass and came across something different I hadn't seen before - ( see attachments ) I was processing brass in my Lee - take one down, pass it around - put another in - remove...

Does anyone here have experience making brass gas checks out of flattened shell casings? I want to use what I have laying around the reloading bench which includes a lot of brass in calibers I don't shoot. Also - has anyone here used the die set for punching gas checks offered by Pat Marlins...

A nagging curiosity - Does anyone here know why Winchester seems to have so many different headstamps? Is it a factory designation? Is it historical? Is it an ammo grade indication?

I'd like to print up a bunch of ammo trays for .40 S&W and am looking for a good STL file source for those. The front runner seems to be .40 Caliber Ammo Case (50ct.) by BHunter13 off thingverse as it's specifically for .40 and not a .40/,45 one size fits no-one design. Specifically I want...

Can anyone direct me to a scientific study on "once fired brass"? I ask as I've never seen one. Even if you are opening what you believe to be a box of factory ammo that you bought at a gun show - are you prepared to guarantee that the brass you've just picked up after ending a target is once...

I had MUCH higher hopes for finding more .40 S&W in this 5 gallons of brass - but it's 2/3rds 9mm and a mix of other stuff and so far I'm on track to only get 20 pieces of .40 S&W brass out of it :( I'll clean up the 9mm and .45 for trade - and hopefully find someone local to me to trade for...

Later this fall I'd like to do some backstop mining to pick up some lead. Does anyone know of any ranges that allow backstop mining or even that sell lead to customers in the greater Dallas / Fort Worth area? The in door ranges I have asked have contracts for both lead & brass and don't sell...

I'll be going into powder coating cast rounds later this year and want the wealth of experience of this group. My research tells me to stay away from Harbor Freight white as it doesn't give a good single coat finish. What powder coat media do you like & why?

I've been using my Lee melter for about 5 years now. It's got a significant amount of build-up. When I reduce wheel weights and scrap I do it in an old aluminum pot and pour ingots first in the hopes of keeping the Lee clear of the worst of the crud. Can this rogue's gallery give me ideas...

There I was pressing away making .40 JHP out of annealed 9mm brass & lead cores and then there was a PANG!!! and a piece of the frame broke off my rock-chucker..... Well she did about 600 rnds before she popped and I got her used..... The replacement press will be a machined steel swage press...

Perhaps I shouldn't say boat-tailing as that's more severe than what I do. I put my .40 cast rounds through a lee sizing die - but due to case variances, I still occasionally have narrower cases on the small side of tolerances that shave small bits of lead off unaltered rounds. Now there's one...