Gorgeous

I now have 300 nice .45 rounds, sitting in pretty Federal boxes, waiting to be shot. Nice.

I solved my spent-primer problem AFTER wasting money on extra tubing at Home Depot. I put a binder clamp on the end of the tube. It will probably hold 400 primers, so it won’t have to be changed much. A better solution would be a 5/16″ metal screw in the end of the tube.

Blindshooter wants to know if I received a little bottle with my press, to catch primers. Not that I’m aware of.

I’m finding new ways to mess up bullets. For example, getting loopy and putting the fresh bullet in a case that’s on its way to the decapping die. I scratched one bullet doing that, but I’m going to shoot the damn thing anyway.

I emptied about 20 rounds that ended up without primers. That happened while I was experiencing frustration with the primer feed. Geez, what a drag. And I still have over 40 new bullets I’m going to take apart simply because I don’t trust them. I’m getting really sick of the bullet puller.

I came up with a new invention today. Self-cleaning cases. It works like this. While you’re putting cleaned cases in the press, you notice something that looks like powder in some of them, and you dump it in the container you’re using to catch excess powder. Then you dump that in the powder measure, and you realize the particles were really corn cob.

Yes, I did that. Only a few particles made it into the measure.

I figured out the big drawback to getting your .45 loads working. Once everything is going good, you have to keep doing .45s until you run out of components. Otherwise, you’ll have to set the whole thing up again, which will be even worse. And I still have around 600 lead bullets to go. I don’t have enough boxes. I guess they’ll have to go in a bag somewhere.

I’m going to go ahead and use my components. This load worked great at the range; there’s no point in messing it up much. I’m at around 5.1 grains of Unique.

Next up: .38 Super.

I wish I had something more exciting than the Glock to shoot 9mm from. It’s an incredible gun; any attacker within 50 yards is guaranteed dead meat. But it’s, you know…a Glock.

Interesting possibilities: Hi Power, Beretta, Tanfoglio Witness, CZ, and Baby Eagle. The Beretta is super elegant, but every time I mention it, gun nuts squeal in agony. I guess they’ll never forgive it for replacing the 1911.

I’d love to get an Israeli Hi Power. I think it’s called a Kareen.

I have to get back to work. I want to have enough bullets for a nice newspaper photo, when the cops come to get my “home arsenal.”