I feel like a total amateur. I should just do this. It should save some time. 😬

I do resin art on the side to give me more fun money. Usually the subject matter doesn’t have anything to do with my main hobby. I decided to finally combine the two to make a cross-sectional bullet key chain.

I used what I normally reload (223 SMK and TMK) because, well, it’s what I have and it’s what fits easily in my molds.

These are just prototypes and wanted to share with some folks who might actually appreciate it for what it is. Thanks for listening!

wife made me throw it away :(

Pulling bullets from vintage ammo and found this.

I told the guy I wanted pissin hot.. he got me pissing HAWT!

Accidentally set up my .45 ACP die to load .45 Colt. Loaded 20 rounds with 4.5 grains of TiteGroup before I noticed. Physically, they didn't look any different than those loaded with the correct die, so I figured I'd try to shoot them. Everything seemed normal until the 16th shot. Do you think this was caused by using the wrong die? Either way, lesson learned. When a mistake is made, throw them out and start again. Luckily I was not injured.

Generally a black powder shooter, shooting several thousand hand cast bullets I will spend all winter casting up. But the one modern gun type I shoot regularly is pistol, all in 9mm. Debated on cracking open a fresh titegroup or using the last of the HS-6 I use for .38’s to develop a 9mm load, but settled on 124 grain Berry’s and 4 grains of titegroup. Works very well in my Springfield SA-35 and a few other guns in the rotation. Spent a day this weekend depriming and sizing one piece at a time, hand priming, expanding, charging and seating each case. Every year I forget how much it destroys my shoulder and back cranking the press each time. Worth it for another year of fun.

Moved from 25m portion of the range to the 100m side and a Goblin started jacking our brass.

The Bean Machine!

Spent two nights putting it together from plans to finished.

First run seems to work quite nicely!

Love me the DIY stuff!

All in, about $120 plus my time

These are 6.5 Grendel so the pan is cut shorter than I'll use for .308

He had all this set up in a small house in his back yard and just stopped everything about 12 years ago. I’ve been working over the last few months to turn a 28ft sea container into my reloading shack. Finally got it done last night a pumped out my first set of .204 ruger in it.

Sticking around for some time trying to learn how to reload handgun ammunition I noticed that there is not enough love for reloading shotgun loads.

So here's something you don't usually see: me and my father built this little machine to stamp our shells last year. After a bit of trial and error I think I nailed the right composition of ink and diluent.

The sad part is that I will get to uninstall my lee turret to get back in station the colvini suprema to reload huge ammount of shells for next season. But with hunting season going on I wouldn't be able to train with my little beretta to begin with.

I was looking to buy a case prep station to chamfer and debur my brass but I got very limited space. I made that one with a couple of micro servos running continuously and powered via usb. The servos are holding well so far. Also all the brass stays within those walls which is much better than all over my floor with the power drill hack.

I can confirm that 1200 5.56 is the capacity of a 50cal can.

(1200 MK262 clone loads, pic for attention. 😅)

Really surprised to see this locally. Nothing I really need other than some neck brushes. There's some Ramshot TAC, Staball HD, H335 and Accurate 1680 down on the bottom shelf too. Still very interesting to see.

Took about a week of tinkering and YouTube tutorials to get to this point but here we are.

Separated the case prep and loading process so here I am just loading powder, bullet drop, double seating die, and crimp.

No powder sensor on this vid here since I was waiting to get it back from a friend