You Know You're A Reloader When...

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You know you're a reloader when you buy scrap brass at a Government Liquidation sale.........................and don't resell any of it. :D
 
How about when you STOP going to the range because you have no more room for all the cases you have already picked up and have run out of coffee cans, Glad storage bins and your reloading bench looks like a warehouse for the US army. (LOL)

Jim
 
Wow, all I can say is, I love reloading ;)

By the way how do you insert a picture in a reply???
 
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When you go to a gun store, look at what a box of 25-factory ammo costs, and start laughing hysterically after comparing it to your cost to load a box of 100.
 
When you buy reloading dies for a cartridge you either don't reload or own a firearm for...yet
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Guilty - but it gave me a GREAT excuse for buying a 357 Mag.

I stole this line from someone, but thought it was good...
If you wash your hands BEFORE going to the bathroom, you might be a reloader.
 
...when you push yourself to go to the range, so you can do more than just square away your reloading room more...

ps + all the above, minus the dies for calibers I don't shoot, although I really was this >< close to doing as such, and am still considering 3o-o6 even tho... :)


Dam I love reloading, and the community of us... jus' sayin'.... :D
 
You know you're a reloader when you buy scrap brass at a Government Liquidation sale.........................and don't resell any of it.
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That is by far the best one yet. Other than this one I have done and continue to do all of them.

Also you might be a reloader if you end up with brass for a cartridge you have never heard of. Although you have absolutely no practical use for it you think you need to have a gun built because you now have brass for it.

The cartridge was .14 hornet by the way
 
When you reload for calibers you don't have a gun for because you had the components given to you, and you might have one someday.
 
The biggest problem I have is finding too much brass of a caliber that I do not own a gun for.

I mean, I have no choice but to buy a gun that I can reload them for.....
 
I used to have to drive a lot at night for my job, and I knew of several "Bubba Ranges" where people would shoot, plus my own gun club I'm a member of. And yes, many was the time I'd stop by one of these places in the middle of the freakin' night with a flashlight and a milk jug to grub around for brass. It's a damn disease, I tell ya. But I've got a LOT of brass stashed away! Most of it all prepped and polished, ready to load.
 
When you never throw away the Red Plastic Folgers Coffee Cans Because you might need them for the next cartridge you adopt.
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Oh, those things are the shizz! I use those for all kinds of storage and steps in the processes, and use a Brady labelmaker to label whatever's in each can at that moment and dirty, polished, primed, etc.
 
when you're shopping for a new dress shirt and the clerk asks "What neck size?" and you instinctively answer "two to three thousandths less than bearing surface diameter."
 
GarySTL said:
When you save brass in calibers for which you have no guns! Might get one someday.
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LOL! I did that for the first time yesterday. Someone at my usual range left about 30-50 pieces of Ruger .204 brass lying around. I'd never even seen the stuff before. Next thing I knew, I had a whole bunch at the bottom of my range bag. It's in my tumbler now!
 
When your going to drive 40 miles round trip to pick up some shellholders so you can go home and reload for a caliber you no longer have a gun for, simply because you have an over abundance of components.
 
KevinR said:
By the way how do you insert a picture in a reply?
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There are two ways:


1. Uploading pictures from file sharing websites like photobucket or flickr.

Posting pictures using file sharing websites do not use any THR server harddrive space and are viewable by everyone (members and guests) - http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=4006007#post4006007

RNB65 said:
1. Go to a free photo sharing website and create an account. I use Photobucket, but there are others. Here are links to a couple of popular ones.

http://photobucket.com/
http://www.flickr.com/

2. Next, login and figure out how to upload photos. Usually its just a matter of clicking "Browse", locating the picture file on your PC and selecting it with the mouse key, then clicking "Upload". The file is then uploaded to your photo sharing account.

3. After uploading, the file will have some boxes next to it with different type of web addresses for different type of image linking. Copy the one called "IMG" or "IMG Code". It will have
at the end. Copy everything, including the
tags.

4. Then logon to THR and create or edit a thread. Simply past the complete image link into your message where you want the pic to go and the photo will be automatically embedded into the THR post. (You won't see the photo while you're editing the message, you'll only see the image link. You'll have to save the message and then view it to see the embedded photo.)
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2. Uploading pictures directly to THR uses server harddrive space and often are viewable only to logged-in THR members.

- To minimize file size on THR server, I first resize my pictures and convert to JPEG compression typically around 400 pixels wide (40 kB) for smaller pictures and 600 pixels wide (100 kB) for larger/detail pictures.


- To upload picture to server, click the "paper clip" icon (blue arrow) to launch "Manage Attachments" in a popup window.

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- When the "Manage Attachments" popup window opens, click on "Browse" button (blue arrow) to browse to your picture location on your computer and select file then click "OK". Once back to the "Manage Attachments" popup window, click on "Upload" button (red arrow) to upload to THR server. Once the picture is uploaded (may take several seconds), click on the uploaded file link (green arrow) to open a new browser window showing the picture.

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- Once the new browser window opens, copy the address (blue arrow) and return back to new/edit post and click the "Insert Image" button (red arrow).

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- Then paste the address into the popup window and click "OK"

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OK, back to OP. :)
 
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When you by mistake buy primers that do not fit any of the calibers you already reload; you select a caliber in which they fit, then buy dies, bullets, factory ammo (for brass) and a gun for that caliber. In my case it was two boxes of large pistol primers, 45 LC and an Uberti Cattleman SAA.
 
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