I recently acquired a Uberti 1866 Winchester "Yellaboy" in .38 special. I haven't shot it yet but I'm chomp'n at the bit to do so. The last time I loaded up some .38 special reduced loads I used Trail Boss powder. I like the way it performed but hated the way it married itself with static and made a frustrating reloading session. I decided to make a powder dipper at my favorite charge out of a .38 case.
After I weighed my charge, marked the charge in case, trimmed the case I needed to "throw" a couple of measures on my scale to finalize things. The only thing that was plastic on my bench is the container holding the TB powder. I used a pair of stainless steel hemostats to hold my trimmed to length case while I dipped it into the wide mouth jug of TB. I could not pull a full measure of powder out of the jug without having the static of the jug pull powder out of the measure.
The static would pull the powder out of the case's mouth from inches away from the sides of the plastic container. I could have a heaping load in the measure and by the time I got it out of the jug it would be down 1/16 of inch below the rim of the case.
I now need to find a wide mouth brass beaker and copper funnel so I can get set up to reload.
Anyone know how to eliminate static in work area? The only time I really have problems with static is when I reload or try to ship something using those styrofoam mailing peanuts. I can have a hand full of those and they wont fall into the box when I let go of them.
Do some folks have built in static in their bodies? Got any tips on how to eliminate it?
'loose
After I weighed my charge, marked the charge in case, trimmed the case I needed to "throw" a couple of measures on my scale to finalize things. The only thing that was plastic on my bench is the container holding the TB powder. I used a pair of stainless steel hemostats to hold my trimmed to length case while I dipped it into the wide mouth jug of TB. I could not pull a full measure of powder out of the jug without having the static of the jug pull powder out of the measure.
The static would pull the powder out of the case's mouth from inches away from the sides of the plastic container. I could have a heaping load in the measure and by the time I got it out of the jug it would be down 1/16 of inch below the rim of the case.
I now need to find a wide mouth brass beaker and copper funnel so I can get set up to reload.
Anyone know how to eliminate static in work area? The only time I really have problems with static is when I reload or try to ship something using those styrofoam mailing peanuts. I can have a hand full of those and they wont fall into the box when I let go of them.
Do some folks have built in static in their bodies? Got any tips on how to eliminate it?
'loose
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