Today at the Bench.....

[Jbotto]

My bench is in place at our new home! Nothing is unboxed yet but my bench is in place!

I was perusing the evil FB marketplace today and noticed someone across town was selling an old sturdy looking c-press. Called him up and when to visit him. He had a Herters Super Model 3 press, a Herters powder measure, and a beam scale from a brand I didn’t recognize. The older gentleman said he used to use this press to make .257 Roberts brass from surplus .30-06 cases and then later reloaded a lot of .300 Win Mag for his rifle made from a 1917 Surplus action. Fun guy to talk to for sure and I could tell he thought fondly of his equipment. He was asking $50 for it all and I told him I only had a few $20 bills so that he would have to take $60 for it. ( I kept the $10 bill hidden so I wouldn’t be called a liar ). I told him you can’t hardly buy a good steel press for under $100 so I felt better about giving him the extra $10 anyways.



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[JeffreyDeGraff]

Great find and even better story. I love talking to guys like that, I can sit and listen to their stories forever.


JTD

[JeffreyDeGraff]

I finally was able to sit at the bench a little today. Didn’t do much but at least it is something. I loaded up some test loads for plinking rounds for my GP100 357 mag. I used cast 158gr RN with red dot and w231. Should be nice light loads around 800-850fps.


JTD

[Mbaker78]

I actually spent some time at the loading bench today too. I managed to load up just over 600 rounds of blackout with my 230gr cast/PC'd bullets and some IMR4227.

It felt good to sit down at the bench and get something constructive done.

[JeffreyDeGraff]

I actually spent some time at the loading bench today too. I managed to load up just over 600 rounds of blackout with my 230gr cast/PC'd bullets and some IMR4227.

It felt good to sit down at the bench and get something constructive done.

I agree. Felt really good.


JTD

[Mbaker78]

I went out and expended some ordnance with a friend of mine today. We had no real intention of doing anything accurately, it was more about torture testing a couple rifles that I installed echo triggers in for him.

The echo triggers are fun, but I actually prefer a good single stage. They seem to take a good bit of getting used to to get a good steady cadence from them, but the semi auto setting is smooth and comparable to a lightly sprung (JP style springs) mil-spec trigger. Not something I’d spend my money on, but I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to try one out.

I also got to compare my subsonic blackout ammo to factory ammo. It turns out that mine is noticeably quieter than factory through both of our suppressors, not to mention that they cost about 1/6 the price.

Hopefully I can finish up the 18” DMR style build I’m working on before I go back to work on Monday, so maybe I can take it out next weekend and see what it can do.

[Mbaker78]

Last night I finished sizing up all of the brass I had laying around. Right now I have something like 600-223, 200-300aac, and 120-6.8spc in the wet tumbler. It's the biggest batch I've tumbled at once, so we'll see how it goes.

I was going to go to the range to try out my newest rifle, but they were having a 200y varmint match, and I slept too late to get into it.

I have a couple racks of ribs smoking, and nothing else going on for at least a couple hours, so maybe I'll take a nap.

[Mbaker78]

Figured I should post my quarantine builds while I'm here.

[Flyeralan]

Figured I should post my quarantine builds while I'm here.

Can you give a few details on the top one? It looks great!

[Mbaker78]

Can you give a few details on the top one? It looks great!

18" 223 Wylde, PSA lower, unknown upper, 15" centurion CMR handguard, standard a2 stock assembly,, basic lower parts kit with JP reduced springs in the FCG, Burris MSR223 3-9x scope, Caldwell mlok bipod, and Griffin armament hammercomp for suppressor mounting.

It's hard to see in the picture, but there's a Burris fastfire 3 at a 45* offset from the scope because I used to play a lot of call of duty.

The suppressor is a home build (with approved form 1) 9.5" titanium 30cal can with a sub-tac alpha cover.

The suppressor takes my bolt action 308 down to hearing safe levels, so it should be pretty decent on this. It only barely helps on the 5.56 pistol, but that's not surprising