What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Hound]

So, how large an area do you think a box of 100 55gr jsp, takes up when dropped ? Next question, who really counts to make sure all 100 have been recovered ?

I just put the used brass back in the reload box, which effectively counts for me. I don't always get it all back (especially in soft dirt) but I do know how many I am looking for.

[Great-Kazoo]

Ah, Kazoo, it's not the size of the mess, it's the inaccessibility of the nooks and crannies they get into that makes it so much fun!

I was going to tumble some brass yesterday when I was working on the shotgun, but I can't stand the noise after a while, so I'll just turn it on when I have somewhere else to be. Some of the tumbling is fine, but there are calibers that are a lot louder than others.

Unfortunately some of it bounced in the component cabinet. Every day's an adventure.

[Irving]

So, how large an area do you think a box of 100 55gr jsp, takes up when dropped ? Next question, who really counts to make sure all 100 have been recovered ?

I had a similar issue recently. I went to the store a while ago and picked up a single quart of cheap synthetic oil, only to be used for gun lube. I wrote GUN OIL all over it. The other day, after having used it for the second time, I was chuckling to myself thinking I wonder if this will last me 100 years, or 150 years? when the bottle slipped out of my hand onto the floor without the lid on.

[Great-Kazoo]

I had a similar issue recently. I went to the store a while ago and picked up a single quart of cheap synthetic oil, only to be used for gun lube. I wrote GUN OIL all over it. The other day, after having used it for the second time, I was chuckling to myself thinking I wonder if this will last me 100 years, or 150 years? when the bottle slipped out of my hand onto the floor without the lid on.

5 years?

[brutal]

So, how large an area do you think a box of 100 55gr jsp, takes up when dropped ? Next question, who really counts to make sure all 100 have been recovered ?

Inversely proportional to your level of frustration, available time, patience, amount of light, length of arm, or all the above.

I would count and probably not give up until i found all 100 pcs. I have nearly disassembled a storage rack to retrieve a missing primer. THOSE are a bitch to find in the spider webs.

That reminds me; those racks need to have their open bottoms closed up.

[Irving]

5 years?

I clean my guns maybe 3 times in 5 years.

I have nearly disassembled a storage rack to retrieve a missing primer. THOSE are a bitch to find in the spider webs.

That reminds me; those racks need to have their open bottoms closed up.

I have definitely just let a primer go when I couldn't immediately find it.

[brutal]

I clean my guns maybe 3 times in 5 years.

I didn't clean every range trip. Maybe a quick wipe down with a rag and a little oil, run a boresnake down the pipe. Anything that might site for > 30 days gets an oil patch. Even then, sitting in my safe in the dry basement, rust doesn't pose much of a threat.

Now running them suppressed, the DI guns are just gross after every trip.

[HoneyBadger]

I clean my guns maybe 3 times in 5 years.



I have definitely just let a primer go when I couldn't immediately find it.

I dropped an open box (sheet?) of primers... 100 primers bounced and rolled all over my work area. I found 98 of them and now I'm paranoid that I'm going to move something and BANG! ...found a primer.

[crays]

So, how large an area do you think a box of 100 55gr jsp, takes up when dropped ? Next question, who really counts to make sure all 100 have been recovered ?

I'm going to guess slightly more area than is easy access, exposed floor space?

[stodg73]

Tumbled 900 .38 Special brass.