I dropped a piece of 9mm Brass and looked for it...

Been there done that with .357 Sig and 10mm brass when I first started loading them Why weren't you loading 9's? Factory 9 ammo was readily available and cheap or you were using another caliber?

Better be sure to not drop any primers!

dredd said:

I was separating a bucket of brass and dropped a piece of 9mm.
It went rolling under a tool box and bench.

I actually got down and looked for it.

What have I become?

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sparkyv said:

Better be sure to not drop any primers!

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Got that right...I accidentally seated a primer backwards the other day. Oh yeah, I very carefully deprimed it turned it around and reseated it. Sure it looks like its already had a firing pin strike, but that baby's getting fired come hell or high water Never expected to be reloading 9mm...but I still put a fair amount of brass away just in case. Glad I did....

Too funny! That wasn't as hard as my last unfruitful search. I dropped a ball bearing from my bullet feed die. I spent hours looking for it....even used a shop vac and sifted through all the stuff it sucked up.....no findy....had to order a pack of ball bearings just to get ONE! Count your blessings, brass you can see!

And be thankful you have primers to reload those 9mm.....when they're gone you may have a long wait for the next time.

If i drop brass. No matter how much i have on hand. I'll look for it.

There’s never been a time that I did not consider reloading 9x19. My reloads are better than cheap 9x19 and less expensive than designer ammunition.

bersaguy said:

.I accidentally seated a primer backwards the other day.

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The very first primer I ever seated was back asswards. But, unlike you, I totally destroyed it when I removed it.

I wish I had even some of the 9mm brass I’ve given away.

I’ve been loading 9 for about 25 years. I have picked up every piece of brass I have come across since I started and after selling off 15k pieces I still have 16k for me. I had until recently 6 different 9’s to load for and that is what I shoot the most by far. I load my practice rounds, precision target rounds, and carry rounds, I haven’t bought factory ammo since i started loading it.

I can remember not so very long ago, my shooting buds when out at the range would say to me: “Why are you picking up that 9mm and 5.56 brass? You crazy...that stuff is too cheap to reload. You’re wasting your time.”
I said nothing at the time, but quietly continued to pick up ALL I could find.
He who laughs last, laughs best....LOL

dredd said:

What have I become?

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This very day I was on my knees picking up half a box of bullets that busted out of their soggy cardboard prison . Even though I have a couple thou Sierra Match Kings in a proper box I picked up those 50 strays as if my life depended on it.
You, Sir, are a reloader

dredd said:

I actually got down and looked for it.

What have I become?

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It's OK. Leaving the 99 to search for the 1 lost is Biblical.

If I look down and see a nickle on the ground, I pick it up. If I see a piece of brass on the ground, I see a nickle so I pick it up for either my use or the recycle bucket.

Bill

Over the years I've gathered containers full of mismatched bullets and brass.
Due to the times we live in, I have been sorting the brass and weighing and micing the bullets.....

bersaguy said:

Got that right...I accidentally seated a primer backwards the other day. Oh yeah, I very carefully deprimed it turned it around and reseated it. Sure it looks like its already had a firing pin strike, but that baby's getting fired come hell or high water Never expected to be reloading 9mm...but I still put a fair amount of brass away just in case. Glad I did....

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I got 2 9mm that the bullet fell out, bad neck tension, I saved the primed case... so funny

us reloader are the most frugal people on the planet... now get off my lawn

It's also amazing how far a cylinder shaped object will travel when dropped.

throw it away, its probably scratched and dented...


...After much thought and contemplation, I remembered that I chase my SS media all over the shop floor...so I admit I am wrong about this...find it, clean it, polish it, then shoot it...if you drop it again, do it all over...but then again, maybe I am putting too much thought into this

I’ve chase a number of them around dark places under my bench and thought the same thing. I have always loaded 9mm though the only difference is my friends don’t laugh at me now. The looks I’ve gotten chasing after 9mm brass at the indoor range while others are throwing it in the brass bucket.

Jeff

These are the blessings of having kids. Hay Billy I dropped one of these, see if you can find it.

AJC1 said:

These are the blessings of having kids. Hay Billy I dropped one of these, see if you can find it.

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Enjoy that while you can. I feel blessed when my grown up kids visit when there's something fun to do....... I also feel blessed when they and their 18 children can go home at the end of the day.

Well, I once spent about 20 minutes looking in the dirt, rocks of the "range" where I shoot for a 45 ACP case that was flung out of my 1911. The longest I looked for a case was for one 30-06 case tossed out of my Garand (45 min.? 1 hr.?). But I was done shooting and had the time...

mdi said:

Well, I once spent about 20 minutes looking in the dirt, rocks of the "range" where I shoot for a 45 ACP case that was flung out of my 1911. The longest I looked for a case was for one 30-06 case tossed out of my Garand (45 min.? 1 hr.?). But I was done shooting and had the time...

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That's definitely one of the scenarios where time vs money doesn't work. I do the same thing for 6br cases, I will not leave until I have them all. Fortunately they dont fling...

It’s a well known fact that brass and gunpowder causes small rips in the space-time continuum. This is evidenced by those pieces of brass that simply disappear. Nowhere to be found no matter how much you look; only to reappear about a week or so later right out in the open.

It’s also well known that the rarer the brass, the larger the tear in the continuum becomes; sometimes causing the brass to disappear for years or travel over very long distances before reappearing.

Then there are the brass gremlins to contend with. Sometimes you will see a piece of brass land on the ground, but when you glance away, the gremlins will snatch it before you bend over to pick it up.

Both seem to increase exponentially when gun-grabbers are in office.

To find lost brass that I've dropped, I've stolen an idea that I got from an Adam Savage YT video. Any small bits and pieces, screws, small parts, or precious 380 brass, if they drop of the bench and dissappear, I'll send out a search party...as in drop 3 or four more in the same manner. They don't always wind up in the same place, but I've been surprised how many times they have. Either way, gives me an idea of how far they could have gone.