Poor man's gold

Miniature IED bodies ready for charging.

That is some MIGHTY FINE looking LC 30-06 brass ready for loading. GOOD work ! ! !



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Garand? BAR? What are you feeding?

ahhhhhhh Brass.
Shiny. Golden. Brass.

Yep -- may not be worth their weight in GOLD; however, they may be more useful than GOLD one day!!

Nice little collection you have there.

Looks good. What are you going to be loading them up with?

makes me want to tumble brass again and again and again, that shine is addictive

Thats some big brass and purdy. 50 bmg?

That is some nice looking Lake City brass.

no, no, no, boyz... these are the big mammas. five-0.

...should have thrown a quarter on the floor for perspective.

my plinking/general purpose load is:

647gr. GI bullets
cci #35 primer
220gr. IMR-5010

The army data manual says they use a 235 gr charge, but I've always heard they were a little hot, no problem for the the M2's but my walther match barrel, and my shoulder likes 220, so they are loaded down a little. Its feels good with has no pressure signs. There is no good load data out there for anything but the newer powders and $2 match bullets so when using GI surplus components we have to test, check, and make notes. Never chronoed it but my guess is its somewhere around 2600fps.

Some of you guys pulled the trigger on some of these before...remember?

Don't have a rifle to shoot them out of...but always wanted to have the stuff to load some up. That strange or what?

quigleysharps4570 wrote:Don't have a rifle to shoot them out of...but always wanted to have the stuff to load some up. That strange or what?

That might seem strange to others, but that has been my "want" also..... I have had at least one 50 BMG round laying around as long as I can remember. Its size and that it is a scaled up 30-06 has also amazed me. Like you, I don't own a 50 BMG firearm, but have fired a few. One of my Bucket List items still not checked off is sitting behind a MaDuce with a 100rd belt inserted............. With the local J & G Brothers, that might soon happen.....

I too have thought about reloading 50 BMG, but with the special press and dies (and LOTS of powder) required has "stopped" me......



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SubGunFan wrote:That might seem strange to others, but that has been my "want" also.....

Good to hear I'm not the lone Ranger. I see Barnes offers a 600 gr. Triple Shock if one were so inclined to hunt with one.

Military surplus powders are the cheapest to load with. IMR-5010 and WC-860. I got mine from patsreloading.

I've never hunted with my gun but I have heard that its doable and seen some elk on video being taken with them. It is a myth that the 50 makes soft things explode into bits. There is the famous you tube video of some "insurgents" exploding into mist on the opposite side of a valley, but turns out they were actually ground hogs shot with high velocity varmint rifles from a hunting video. The ball/ap/api bullets will just go straight through everything soft just like a .30 will, except with a bigger hole. Even the incendiaries will not go off unless they hit something hard like metal plate.

Now, when they come out with a hollow point varmint 50 bullet that might be another story.

Nice Brass....

The way Dillon is pimping their Big 50 press you'd think everyone had a 50

What 50 are you loading for?
Pics please.

What are you doing? Stainless Steel pin tumble? Hence the towel..........

crazy, mine is a serbu bfg50 no pics, but here's the link for it: http://serbu.com/top/bfg50.php

spikes, no they were tumbled in lyman walnut treated with rouge, in one of those harbor freight 18lb tumblers. I can do a hundred at a time. Or 650- .308...