[JSmith]

I made some .357 rounds that didn't pass Quality Control, so I took 'em apart with the impact bullet puller. Happens. You know that the powder and the bullet drop into the end of the chamber in the green plastic hammer, so you pour that stuff out and dismantle another round.

In order to make life easier, I appropriated a couple of items from the kitchen: a couple of Tupperware containers and a strainer to separate the bullets from the powder.

My wife strolled in as I was doing that, saw what I was using, and flipped. She informed me in detail and at length of her views on using food-prep items at the reloading bench.

Moral: think long and hard before repurposing other people's tools. I now have my very own strainer. And she has a brand-new one.

(My wife is very easy-going about most things. Others, not so much.)

[Old Shooter]

Some people just have no sense of humor.

As long as you weren't using the pepper shaker to hold the pulled powder, what's the problem?

[squarles67]

I've found that the old addage "what's yours is ours and what's mine is mine" fits pretty good when ever I try to get anything out of the kitchen but it seems that all my screwdrivers migrate into the kitchen somehow.........

[918v]

You should of put on her stockings. It would of been more entertaining.

[bds]

My wife has a coffee mug she uses daily that says, "Queen of everything" :D

After I started building my 12' x 24' "man cave" complete with heating/AC/Internet, she commandeered it for her "woman cave" ... :uhoh: (I am building another 12' x 24' "man cave")

It's give-and-take with the wife. To reward me for the "woman cave", she gave me our old GE front loading washer/dryer for the garage shop stuff. I considered wet tumbling brass in the stainless tub washer but donated it to good cause when my wife bought me another "big" wet tumbler for Valentine's Day present - 3.5 cu ft cement mixer. Now I can tumble 5 gallon bucks of brass at a time. :eek:

[NeuseRvrRat]

i think we received 3 strainers as wedding gifts, so she's got 2 in the kitchen and i've got my very own in the reloading room :D

[Snag]

She informed me in detail and at length of her views on using food-prep items at the reloading bench.

And good for you for not arguing with her. Like they say.....you can be right, or you can be happy, not both.

[MtnCreek]

I now have my own colander, hair dryer and bath towels because of a ‘bullet washing / drying incident”. :)

[Bud0505]

My wife controls 100% of the sex and 90% of the money in our house hold. She pretty much gets her way....

[Dakotared]

You are not the only one on that Bud0505

[788Ham]

Kind of the other way around at my ranch. I went to Target and bought what "I" wanted , as far a plastic containers, and other needed items for my reload area. Wife has so many types of food containers in the cupboards, can't keep one of 'em closed! Ha I just "pick-n-dump" when I goof up on a reload, not a big deal to me.

[Henry45]

I...I am the KING at my house. What I say goes, and I do as I please anytime I please..


As long as I end that statement with ..."yes ma'am"... :)

One thing I have learned, you don't mess, borrow, beg or steal the wife's cooking utensils... That is a big no-no...

[Fishslayer]

Stuff like that can be had cheap at the thrift store.

Wait till ya try the "Baking wrinkle blacked motorcycle parts in the oven.":evil:

[gamestalker]

My wife read me the right act when she caught me using her strainer also. So yes, do think twice before utilizing the wife's kitchen tools for that of our hobby.

GS

[beatledog7]

I'm no longer married, but not over anything pertaining to firearms.

If I were, I'd rule the kitchen as well as the armory. That's why I'm no longer married.

[FROGO207]

Guess I dodged a bullet there.:cool: No wife ever.:D Spent all my money on firearms and reloading gear for years. I have a bumper sticker " He who dies with the most toys wins".:p

[Lost Sheep]

Cooking tools are cooking tools. They do not do double duty as firearms or car or carpentry.

I am not married, and when I took a collander from the kitchen to use as a trainer for my tumbling media, it changed and will never go back to the kitchen (at least not without major rehabilitation).

Call me paranoid if you will, but I take no chances.

I have a pump-up spray can for weed killer. I have a (nearly identical) spray can I use for spraying soap on my car. Never the twain shall meet. I have no idea what the weed killer would do to my car's finish or windshield wipers and have no care to bother finding out. I just keep the two separate applicators.

My Mother used to go ballistic if we used her sewing scissors to cut paper.

Some advice delivered by a photographer to two friends of mine newlyweds). The photog had been married for over 50 years.

He said, looking hard at the groom, "You! You do everything she tells you.", then, looking even harder at the bride, but speaking softer, "and you; you spoil him so rotten no other woman will want him."

Women are wired to take care of their families. Their children, their homes, their cookware, their husbands. (Maybe in that order, but at least their husbands are on the list.)

Your wife will never intentionally give you bad advice, simply because it is bad for you as a couple.

Lost Sheep (fully qualified to do marriage counseling because for 60 years I have successfully avoided the institution.)

[bds]

For those contemplating marriage, it's not all that bad. The key is marrying a wife who is pro-gun and reloading.

I went through many dates for years but when I first met my wife and found out she grew up with guns, her family hunted, was proficient with riding dirt bikes/quads and didn't mind camping and roughing it with 4x4's in the moutains/deserts/sand dunes/lakes/rivers/beach, I KNEW I found the wife of my dreams and told her so. She thought I was crazy but we are going on almost 19 years!

When she introduced me to her family, I was just starting out with match shooting and when I showed them my match belt/holster setup, they welcomed me to the family like a long lost son!

Needless to say, pursuing my shooting/reloading hobby has been much easier than some of my friends who are married to anti-gun wives. When they ask my wife about my "expensive hobby", she smiles and tells them, "When he is reloading, I know where my husband is. Do you know where your husbands are when say they are playing golf?" Of course, she joins me to the range so we have plenty of empty brass to process and reload together.

My daughter is like her mother and being raised wih the same values and virtues. Some of our quality time spent has been playing case sorting by caliber and headstamp hunting. Now she is old enough to resize cases for me. If/when she finds a boyfriend who shows up with a match belt/holster, you all know what my response will be ... a nice chat over my reloading bench ... and perhaps a trip to the range together. ;)

So, if you don't want to have a silly argument with your wife over reloading issues later, find a girlfriend who is pro-gun/reloading now!

[EddieNFL]

About 30 years ago a friend's tumbler gave it up. He had the great idea of put the brass and media in a pillow case, tie it off and toss it in the dryer. Of course, it came open and destroyed the dryer. Cost him a kitchen remodel.

I think this pretty much describes us all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4vLZJhNEk

[sugarmaker]

I occasionally use our strainer to sift the blobs out of some 4895B I bought some years ago. Pasta still tastes good. She's OK with it. We don't mention the time she drove around with a 20lb propane tank rolling around in the bed of my new truck - dented the bed 360 degrees from the inside. Gotta compromise and let things go...

[splattergun]

I'm no longer married, but not over anything pertaining to firearms.

If I were, I'd rule the kitchen as well as the armory. That's why I'm no longer married.
^ that ^
It's a good thing I'm not a mechanic. There would be a transmission on my kitchen table.

[jolly roger]

My wife is tolerant of guns and reloading as a rule...but I now vacuum the man cave 100 percent of the time after she vacuumed up a live primer that kaboomed. I might add I vacuum that area with an old beat *** shop vac...not HER vac.

[Lost Sheep]

For those contemplating marriage, it's not all that bad.
It's not bad at all.

Just as there are 4 rules of safe gun handling, there are rules to marriage. There are a lot more than just 4, but they are just as inviolate.

But if you follow the rules, marriage can even be more fun than shooting/handloading.

Just learn to do it right and don't (figuratively) shoot yourself in the foot.

Lost Sheep

[Promod1385]

You gotta learn! Everyman needs his own set of colanders for the reloading room. Do your marriage a favor and hit the dollar store to acquire your own.

[osprey176]

Kinda reminds me of when I was young and not thinking things through.I was rebuilding the engine in the race car and needed to get everything extra clean before reassembly.Stuck the piston/rod combos in the dishwasher before running to the parts store.Got a phone call from my dad at the parts store.Boy was he a little ANGRY!The hard lessons are the ones we remember the best.

[baronthered]

That old saying " if momma isn't happy, nobody's happy"

You should hear the talking to I get sometimes :rolleyes: :evil: :uhoh:

[JSmith]

Lost Sheep wrote, Cooking tools are cooking tools. They do not do double duty as firearms or car or carpentry.

Oddly enough, that wisdom doesn't work both ways. My good screwdrivers are frequently used as pry bars and scrapers.

Oh, well. Been married 26 years plus and going strong. What can I say? (My wife is definitely pro-gun and pro-reloading. I was making ammo for her .357 at the time. And I had planned to put the strainer in the dishwasher when I was done with it. :D)

Spalttergun wrote, It's a good thing I'm not a mechanic. There would be a transmission on my kitchen table.

My brother-in-law, who is single, does in fact have a transmission on his kitchen table. It's been there for, oh, I don't know... four years or so.

[bds]

How many of us have used butter knives as a handy flathead screwdriver? :eek:

And yes, I have countless screwdrivers in 3 roll-away tool chests! :D

When I used a small stainless steel mixing bowl we never used to soak a quad carburetor, wife gave me the rest of old stainless steel bowls and bought her a brand new set - Win Win!

[Uncle Richard]

LOL.......funny post.

Thanks for the laughs.... some comments sound familiar. We live in a small house with baby number 2 on the way.... moving the reloading station into a building to make room for the little girl. The wife didn't have to ask.

[Centaur 1]

My wife strolled in as I was doing that, saw what I was using, and flipped. She informed me in detail and at length of her views on using food-prep items at the reloading bench.


When I first started casting bullets I pan lubed them using an odor free paraffin wax/vaseline mix in our kitchen toaster oven. Then I learned about using lithibee lube for higher velocity. My wife didn't need to catch me in the act, because of the odor. Who would of thunk that melting lithium grease in the oven would have made the house stunk so bad. :confused:

[wyofool]

As my neighbor is known to say "Happy wife,, Happy Life"

[Montana Griz]

Met her at college in 1951...got married in (1954) Her favorite uncle gave me a 30/40 Krag so I could deer hunt in those Iowa River Bottom Counties while attending college and worked 3 part time jobs. She had three other uncles that each had their respective farms there in eastern Iowa.................some of the best pheasant and quail hunting I ever had. She would help me reload for rifle & shotgun and enjoyed being out in those Iowa Corn Fields........ She would go on about half of my bird hunts and had no problems with helping cleaning what me & my buddies shot.

Her grandmother lived in the same BIG old house that she (my future wife) lived in along with her mom & dad. Hardly a week-end went buy that the whole family took part in the Sunday meal (cooked to perfection by GrandMa)/..consisting of either Pheasant, Quail, Rabbit, Duck or Geese.
Usually got my deer (WT) in one of the alphalfa field that had the 3rd cutting done and a fair amount was left along the hedge rows and fencelines.....so finding one to shoot was not a great challenge.........The deer usually ended up beening the main course for a mammoth Christman Holiday Dinner.......usually about 18 in attendance. The future wife loved those situations and provided her share of help.......even "acting as a "Blocker" at the end of certain corn fields!! ....My widowed mother even would make the 190 mile drive (from our home in far northern Illinois) for several of the bigger special occasion dinners............

Got married in 1954 (last year of school)......started work seven days after graduation in the marketing & sales engineering portion of the steel-fab requirements of many, many mining & milling operations out west: CO; UT; WY; ID; MT, NV; NM & AZ. Traveled a great deal and the wife traveled with me about half the time... Bosses were always in agreement that "it was a good thing" that a man-on-the-road" had his wife with him..........any way, it worked for us. (40 years of working out in the Boonies with mining & construction folks..........and always getting 'new tips and info on some new hunting places.and always doing my reloading when and where I could...................................................Lost her to cancer after 51 years of marriage, but pushing 81 .....I've got some fabulous memories.........Like the one and only time I had her shoot a 4 point buck with a Colt SSA loaded with a 240 gr Keith HP set on top of 9grs of Unique. At about 40 feet she couldn't miss and the look on her face when that deer fell over where he stood was price-less!!!

Ok......that's enough of this old man dragging memories "out-of-the-vault!!

[Lost Sheep]

Priceless. You are a lucky man, Montana Griz.

Lost Sheep

[FROGO207]

Indeed---anyone would be considered blessed being just half as fortunate in a well lived life. Good show sir.:) Today I helped a new reloader with some hands on time at the local range. My GF went along and did not complain that it took 5+ hours and while there waiting she helped in the range with a Cowboy Fast Draw event that was held at the same time. Then helped us clean up the mess we made at the 100 YD shooting bench after. She's OK for sure but you were blessed.:cool:

[medalguy]

I've been married for 44 years now, and I learned a long time ago to keep momma happy. It's much easier on everyone.

Quite a few years ago she started complaining about the time I spent in the reloading room, and I told her "Look, I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't chase skirts. You always know I'm in here alone. THIS is what I do for fun." She never complained about the reloading time again.

[jackblack86]

Kinda reminds me when I was 16 and my mother caught me cleaning my GTO valve covers in the dishwaser it seem like a good idea at the time.

[JSmith]

That was an awesome story, Montana Griz.

[Ky Larry]

This the second time around for my wife and I.When we married 16 years ago, we combined 2 complete households. She picked everything she wanted for our home and I got the leftovers.Now, she gets to use anything that's ours and I get to use anything that's mine,with her permission.She has no problem with my guns and motorcycle as long as I have no problem with her shoes and pocetbooks.
When we married, I had a super nice Colt .38 Det.Spl. She loved shooting it. The, on day I noticed I didn't have it anymore. It had become 'her' gun. I figure a Colt is a cheap price for a happy, safe wife.

[Fishslayer]

Lost Sheep (fully qualified to do marriage counseling because for 60 years I have successfully avoided the institution.)

That's good! You bring no preconceived notions or biases to the table. ;)

[Chisos]

My wife of 14 years gave me a set of elephant ivory grips for my 1911 before we were married. Figured then I should keep her.

[Gtimothy]

I stupidly filled my rifle rests with lead shot and crushed walnut shells. After a day at the range with my 18lb rear rest, I decided that I didn't need the shot so I grabbed my wife's strainer and used it to separate the shot from the walnut! Worked great but Shhhhhhh, I didn't tell her! I just washed it really well!

[rajb123]

you are hen pecked.

[StandingTall]

Just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary yesterday.

The secret is:

What's hers is hers..............and what's yours is hers.

[ATLDave]

Funny story! And, of course, your wife was right. Ammunition and its components have lead and various other materials in them that are quite harmful if ingested. Food prep items shouldn't have little particles of lead embeded into them!

[jcwit]

I seldom use items from the kitchen but when I do happen to need a small container at the reloading bench and use something from the kitchen it always is glass, NEVER EVER plastic.

[dab102999]

After reading all these post I feel like such a douch...I do all the cooking in my house....:banghead:

[1911 guy]

Before a man getrs married, he says he'll be the king of the castle or know the reason why. After he gets married, he knows the reason why.

[JSmith]

you are hen pecked.

Me? Not really. My wife's just a bit territorial about her equipment, is all. Believe it or not, I have been known to get in a snit if I think my tools are being misued...

"You did WHAT with that wood chisel?? You have GOT to be kidding me ... It's a wood chisel, not a grout scraper. Yes, we have a grout scraper. Ask and you shall receive."