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After a long hiatus while playing with boats in Gulf, have gotten back to shooting again. I was surprised to see this thread I started almost 7 years ago to the day still running! Fun reading through and seeing several familiar names.

Got the Weatherby back out that I was working up loads for in the initial post and bagged a couple of nice whitetails last week. Good to get out and shoot again after so long!

Mike

Living vicariously reading through reloading forums for a few months. After bypass no more pulling on the handle for a while. Keep up the posts, enjoying the read!

I finally started cranking out 45 ACP this past weekend. I was down to less than 100 rounds in inventory. Had the Dillon set up for small primer and 223 for sub-sonic rounds and have been too lazy to spend 10 minutes to reconfigure until my 45 stockpile got too low. Swapped over to large primer, changed toolheads, and rechecked all the die and powder settings.

Ran off 100 185 gr. LSWC from Bayou Bullets and my last 150 of the 200 gr non coated LSWC I still had on hand from Friendswood Bullet Co. that went defunct a while back. Have 1000 more 200 gr Bayou LSWC to do in the next week or so and I will be set for a bit. I have and continue to be a big fan of Donnie's coated lead rounds from Bayou Bullets!

I checked the first bunch and sporadically throughout the runs and all passed the plunk test in my 1911 with zero issues.

While I am happy with the Lee single stage for rifle rounds, I definitely enjoy the blue koolaid for handgun (and 223)!

Plunk Test

Now working on some 380's for the Kel Tec and Walther unloaders. Mostly Starline but some mixed brass with Hornady XTPs on top. Using WAP powder and CCI small pistol primers.

24" barrel, 1-10 twist rate, calculated sg stability factor of 1.94 for this bullet.

Hoping to stimulate a bit of activity here as it has been quiet for a while. Worked up some extremely accurate 30-06 loads for deer season. First time hunting with these bullets, so will be interesting to see the expansion results.

Using once fired Norma brass, Federal Match large rifle primers, 55.0 grains of IMR 4350, and Berger 185 grain Hunting VLD bullets. They make one ragged hole in a 3 shot group at 100 yards from a Lead Sled. Really impressed with the accuracy, reading lots of controversy around fragmenting vs. controlled expansion. The differing opinions are nearly as polarized as the Lee FCD on most forums.

Very interesting read on setting the right COAL on Bergers website at: http://www.bergerbullets.com/getting-th ... our-rifle/

I ran through the exercise and there is a definitive sweet spot on the length!

As always, NEVER trust load data posted on a forum, validate and get your load data from the manufacturers or a manual!