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Offline stimpylu32

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Got bored today
« on: April 25, 2010, 10:46:14 AM »
As most of you know , thats not always a good thing for me .  :o :o :o

Well this all started with a wet / rainy day at the reloading bench , I was going through some of my 45LC case's getting ready to load and came across a bunch that had split necks .

Now what to do with them ?

I happened to look up at my boxes of brass and saw a box of 45 Auto Rim  ??? , now the A.R. will not work in my Taurus Tracker due to the extra thickness of the rim - BUT - what if I take the colt case's and trim them down to A.R. lenght .

So I fired up the Forester case trimmer powered by a Batt drill to speed the process and trimmed 50 case's to .898" , drug out the 45 AR dies , well you can see were this is going .  :D

Looked up some load data and desided on Bullseye with a starting load , next what bullet ? out to the casting bench I went and found the 230g RN that I use for 45 ACP and casted up 50 .

Now if it ever quits raining I'll run over to the range and test them out , being Bored is not always a bad thing , me thinks .  ;D

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:D If i can,t stop it with 6 it can,t be stopped

Offline LaOtto222

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Re: Got bored today
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2010, 01:21:51 PM »
That is one way to get more miles out of cases. Should be a nice plinking round. The same thing can be done with 357 - 38 Special or 44 Mag - 44 Special. come right to the top of my teeny brain. It has been raining here too, so it indoor projects. Been working on my new (old) lathe. Still needs a bunch of clean up, but getting there.
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Re: Got bored today
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2010, 01:22:43 PM »
I got bored once and wound up in Antarctica where the Coast Guard Recruiter said there was a woman behind every tree.   ;)

Sounds like another good day is looming in your near future Stimpy.

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Re: Got bored today
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2010, 01:26:18 PM »
Should be a nice plinking round.

Thats kinda what I was thinking .  ;)

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:D If i can,t stop it with 6 it can,t be stopped