[coloradokevin]

Well, I went out for a big meal tonight with my wife and mother-in-law. So, my usual workout routine for the evenings was interupted by a dire need to digest for a much longer period of time than I usually do :)

Anyway, I decided I'd head down to the shop and load up 50 pieces of .223 brass that I'd previously processed and primed.

First mistake was when I decided to set things up... Following my usual routine, I pulled out the primers and placed them in the primer tray. Then I remembered that I'd already primed this brass! So, I needed to individually place each primer back into it's little slot in the primer carton. But, I decided to drop the whole thing while trying to accomplish this task, and thereby ended up spilling 50 primers across my shop floor (which is cluttered with other tools, etc).

Finding these primers was like looking for an explosive needle in a hay stack. This took a few minutes. Naturally, one primer was missing at the end, and it took me ten minutes to find this one (sitting under my tumbler... which would have probably been a bad spot the next time I fired that thing up).

Well, moving right along...

I pull out my brass that I was planning to load, and some how manage to drop this too. I'm really on a roll at this point, but the brass was much easier to find than the primers, so I only lost less than five minutes on this blunder.

I then start scooping and trickling my powder into each case, and this goes swimmingly for about 15 cases. Then I accidentally drop half a scoop of powder on the bench/floor (at least it wasn't the one pound container!).

By this point I'm finding it tragically funny, and wondering if I'm in some physical state that would make me unable to safely load tonight! Anyway, I continued and managed to load everything without further problems.

But, don't you love it when stuff just can't go right, no matter how hard you try?

[Walkalong]

I have had days like that, when everything you touch turns to S***. I just try to make it through the day without a big screw up and start fresh the next day. Thankfully, those days are few and far between. When they happen, I stay away from anything I don't just have to do, especially critical or hazardous things. :)

[Quickdraw McGraw]

I thought I was the only one who got bad cases of the dropsies! :D

Guess not! Good thing you didn't try and shoot them that night. :what:

[ZeSpectre]

It doesn't happen too often but I can remember a few days where I've gone to the range to practice, sent about three rounds downrange and realized that I just need to put the gun up and go home.

Haven't ever had a day like that reloading (but then again I just started and I've reloaded about 200 rounds total so far :evil:)

[Grandpa Shooter]

But, don't you love it when stuff just can't go right, no matter how hard you try?


Welcome to my world. I am working on a job right now where everything that could go wrong has. It is running way too slow and going to cost me money in the end.

[ar10]

I dropped 100 federal small pistol primers last week that landed on the very dirty shop floor. (it gets better). Not only was the floor dirty but there were also over 2000 decapped large/small rifle primers already on the floor. I "was" going to sweep the floor but the 2 cats were having a ball playing the primers on floor I didn't do it. It only took about 2 hours of but I found 99 of them. And I absolutely hate those stupid boxes Federal uses.
BTW: those little suckers are really hard to pick up.

[Lazuris]

LOL I had one of those days a few months ago. I was neck sizing 300wm on a single stage and kinda zoned out a bit. I put my lubed case in the shell holder and decided to leave my finger in the press as I pulled the ram down. Ended up needing 10 stiches on my index finger and a month off from reloading.

[Cougfan2]

Back in the days when I was a smoker, I got up one morning early to load some trap loads before going to the range. Still in the groggy waking up stage, I pulled out an 8 lb keg of Trap100 in preparation to fill my Mec powder bottle and had the sudden realization that I had a cigarette hanging from my mouth standing over and open powder keg. :what::eek:

Luckily nothing happened. Resolved then and there to never enter the reloading area with a lighter of even one cigarette.

[Griz44]

The worst day I have ever had at the range or the loading bench was better than the best day I ever had at work, and I really do enjoy my job.

[jgh4445]

I've never dropped any powder, brass or primers. However; Murphy has slapped them out of my hands a few times.

[Randy in Arizona]

Griz44, Amen!
jgh4445, Yes, Murphy is a real {Terms deleted in deference to Art's Grandmaw} !!
:what:

[lgbloader]

Ahhh... the crap that we men do...

Like the time that I was emptying my powder throw back into the correct bottle and it stopped flowing into the funnel and I gave it "a little bitty tap and all at once spilled it all over my bench and my onlooking son who was about 3 at the time asked, "That was a accident?" And of course I told him, "No, I meant to to that".

I wonder if a woman has ever put on a maxi pad adhesive side up!

Cheers...

[lazyeye]

There's been a few times when no matter how careful I am I keep seating the primers sideways. Or when I'm charging cases and get more powder on my desk than in the case.

My worst moment was when I was depriming cases on autopilot and this one case just wouldnt deprime, so I pushed on it harder and harder and swore at it. Finally I removed the case and looked at it, I was trying to deprime a berdan primed case.

[scrat]

any time i have had days like that i would pack it up and call it a day. or sometimes just take a break for an hour. Its life it happens

[Floppy_D]

Or perhaps put the bottle away. :evil:

[lgbloader]

By the way, what the hell does "Floppy D" mean anyways??

[Floppy_D]

I had an old Jeep that had a 108" CB whip antennna on a honeycomb mount, that would swing wildly anytime I turned. My buddy asked what that "big 'ole floppy donkey **** was for" and thus the nickname of the Jeep became "Floppy D". It's not an ED reference or anything.

[lgbloader]

Lmao...

[digger658]

i'Ve NEvEr haD A dAy liKE THat!;)

[Bboomer]

Well, at least you remembered to wear shoes out there. Ouch!