What are you currently reloading?

Components tough to find by you?

It’s always an adventure. Powder has been better recently, but it sucks trying to find the bullet you want. You better buy it when you see it.

Black Sheep in Idaho is pretty solid. Washington is getting more interesting by the day.
 
.45-70s. I have hundreds done and the same amount to do. Just 79 gr of Swiss 2f and an LDPE wad for now. The 16:1 Pb:Sn 517 gr prolate paper-patched bullets come later.
 
Tons of brass prep.
Fixing to put together a bunch of range fodder 5.56
I have about 300 Speer 62Grn TBBC left to make my load which replicates the classic FBI load.

I am vowing to spend less this year and use up some of my component cache.
 
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I'm wanting to work up some 25-06 except for a couple issues. The new brass I ordered 12/30 hasn't shipped yet and the new Ruger Predator ain't here yet either. I'll probably work on the 22-250 load and a 6.5 load for my #1. I haven't found anything the 6.5 likes yet.
 
New set of dies and brass for 6.5x55 Swede are sitting on my bench, and I picked up some 130 gr Sierra TMK with a gift card. Now to find some time to put them all together with some Staball 6.5.
I'm sitting on about 5 pounds of IMR 4381 that used be for my 30-06 loads. Now it will be for the Swede.
No rush, my M96 a safe queen awaiting its turn at the PH Bunny Ranch in Fallon.

You can do magic in the Swede in a Number 1! What is your twist rate?
 
I'm sitting on about 5 pounds of IMR 4381 that used be for my 30-06 loads. Now it will be for the Swede.
No rush, my M96 a safe queen awaiting its turn at the PH Bunny Ranch in Fallon.

You can do magic in the Swede in a Number 1! What is your twist rate?
1:9
 
I'm loading up some proven 156 Berger loads for mine and my brother's Brownings, some new loads for a buddy's Seekins (156 in Lapua brass and N565), and going back to the drawing board my son's Christensen Arms Mesa in 6.5 PRC with 130 grain Accubonds and H1000 in Norma brass. That Mesa used to be mine and I passed it down to my son who, at the time, only hunts in Northern MN for deer. I just couldn't find anything in the 140 class to shoot consistently under an inch and it absolutely sprayed the 156 Bergers so I'm dropping weight to see if I can find "the one" before his antelope hunt (graduation gift) this fall. Not overly impressed with the Mesa but I have been damned impressed with my X-Bolt so far!
 
6.5 Swede, 142 grain accubonds. Vv n555 powder. 2843 average velocity. Fun to o shoot. Little recoil but plenty of thump. .5 moa with 5 shots.
 
6.5 Swede, 142 grain accubonds. Vv n555 powder. 2843 average velocity. Fun to o shoot. Little recoil but plenty of thump. .5 moa with 5 shots.
I have a full box of these sitting on my bench but the gun I'd like to try them in hasn't loved the 140 weight class, how has your Swede shot other bullets in this weight class?
 

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