Do any kids reload now? My grandkids concentrate on their phones.
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Do any kids reload now? My grandkids concentrate on their phones.
Armored farmer
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#1 son dabbles in reloading, mostly for his hunting guns. For the most part, they're more consumers than producers.
Kind of get them into it slowly. My son watches all kinds of youtube videos and even wanted a gopro one year for his birthday. So I had him bring his goro and phone and camera and record shooting. Then let him hold my phone connected to the chronograph so he's still using a phone but getting into outdoors stuff.
Having a family can be a big distraction and time taker. So I tend to do batches of just one step. I'll just prime 500 cases and put them in boxes with labels with the priming date on them. So going from priming to powder to bullet to crimp, etc isn't on my mind, I just prime and prime and prime. Sometime later I'll do another inspection. So I'm breaking down into small single steps when I can.
You know what happens with the entire country gets filled with consumers? Nothing good.
Last time I reloaded with someone in the room (my 17 y/o son) I ended up with a .38 special squib. Lesson learned.
Last time I loaded squibs, I had to walk a mile to the truck to get a cleaning rod. Lesson really learned.
I have my little ones (11 yo boy and 7 yo girl) help with menial tasks - this morning I pulled 450 cases out of the tumbler, had one sorting headstamps and the other stacking them into mtm boxes headstamp up. The sorter then used a tiny Allen wrench to clear flash holes of any corn cob media stuck there. This was all in the living room, then I haul it out to the garage and my reloading area is a no wife /no kid zone. Occasionally the dog is allowed to sit there.
AJC1
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I would say some parents still teach, and dont let the cell phone rule their kids lives.
deadeye dick
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I put the shell holder on top of the Lee powder thru die. It will never get lost.
someguy2800
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I did that in the middle of an action pistol match and had to do the walk of shame to the malfunction table to knock the bullet out of the bore. Pretty embarrassing. I ordered a different progressive press that night so that I would have another station on the press for a powder lock out die.
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