28 November 2014, 15:38
Made myself a batch of .38spl's for shooting tonight...glad it's the club gun i'll be putting them through and not one of mine lol....been a long time since I've built ammo but it was strangely therapeutic and relaxing...ppu brass /cci 500 small pistol primers/4.2 grain's (.7cc)imr trail boss under a 158grn lrn bullet......wish me luck.....I loaded as if I was without facilities ie after an event using a hand press and no extra aids or automation.....took 2 hrs start to finish beginning with 100 once fired cases...ending with 100 low power .38spl's.....used a dipper instead of weighing the charge as it's more suitable for on the hoof manufacturing...hoping for somewhere between 700 and 740 fps ....will be purchasing a lee loader for one of my cache's just as back up.
Nothing is fool proof for a sufficiently talented fool!!!!