Happy Birthday to me...

[rdlange]

350 400g .461 cast lead
200 200g .455 cast lead
200 250g .454 Hornady swaged lead
350 400g Speer JFP

45-70 Lyman 310 set with 2 handles
45 LC Lyman 310 set with handle
.457 & .454 Lee size and lube dies

100 unfired 45LC Rem brass

2lb A2400
2lb Varget
1lb H4198
1000 assorted primers

All arrived.

Leupold M8 4X on the way...

Looks like I'm in the big bore reloading business..!

Be Well...

[yukondog]

Happy B-Day, how well does that 310 set work? I have a couple of dies 45 lc and 9mm that a friend of mine gave me after his father died, always wondered how well they worked I'll never use them just wondered.

[gendoc]

you got it go'n on... thats fer shur
enjoy your day.

[rdlange]

Lyman 310... 'nostalgia' maybe, but they work good.  A little slow and have to change dies alot.  I like having complete reloading potential in a small package so it's portable.
 
I use it in combination with a Lee hand press.  Have a Lee mouth expanding die and I crimp with a Lee die in the Lee press after using the 310 to prime and seat bullets.

I like them better than the Lee Loader because I don't like hammering, but that's a good tool also.  310 is more expensive.

Just fyi... Leupold is a compact (got it on '24 hour campfire' forum), going on my 45-70 along with the GSI mannlicher stock set which is almost fitted.

Thanks for asking.

[bikerbeans]

yukon,
 
I have a Ideal 310 for 30-06, 308 Win & 270 Win.  It was bought new right after the WWII by my best friend's FIL.  It works well as I took it to deer camp in 2009 to load for my 1903 Springfield and I still haven't shot all the cartridges I reloaded.    It will tone up your wrist muscle to boot.  I still use the .308 neck sizer for my 308x444.
 
BB

[gcrank1]

A lot of the 310 tool dies (which neck size only) really undersize the case neck (hard on brass, that). If you just can deprime/reprime without sizing, and seat a large enough dia. bullet into the fire-formed case mouth, still having it chamber up and extract OK, then you can dispense with one die set change and really simplify the process.

[yukondog]

Looks like your going to have fun for awhile.
I think his father died in 1970 so there at least pre 70's there's 5 dies in one box[9mm] and look almost new and the other has 6 dies in it [45LC] one of the dies is marked 454 looks like it might be a expander die.The boxes are Orange w/metal corners and say Compleat Set of Dies by Lyman Gun Sight Corp. Middlefield, Conn. Sorry wasn't trying to hijack your thread.