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What have you done at the reloading bench lately?

Finished doing all the brass prep prior to actually loading 2K rounds of .308 Winchester for an upcoming class in a couple of months. Syllabus calls for five hundred rounds/student, so I am loading fifteen hundred, plus an extra five hundred round batch for insurance. Mixed brass, Federal primers, 168 grain SMK’s, AA2230 powder. Load shoots very well in the three identical Ruger GSR’s we will be using. Tooling for ammunition is a mixture including a set of Dillon XL650’s, and some RCBS tools as well. After the final wash with stainless pins, the brass looks like it came from the factory bags.

After all that .308 is finally loaded, the next chore will be to process about 5K of .44 Special brass.
It never ends! 🤣
 
Loaded 50 rounds of 6.5 Creedmoor with 140gr Berger Hybrid over 39.6gr of H4350 & 210M primers. Done with Rock Chucker single stage, RCBS auto priming tool & RCBS ChargeMaster.

Also did 200 rounds of 9mm PCC match ammo with 147gr Berry's plated over 3.1gr of Bullseye & WSP primers. Done with Hornady LNL with case & Mr. Bullet feeders.

The LNL in action with some coated bullets:

 
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Cranked out a bunch of my favorite 9mm load on the Dillon 750.
RMR 124gr FMJ over 5.65gr of True Blue (y)
 

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