David Wile
Member
Hey Folks,
It has been a while since I have been on the forum. In the spring of 2005, we sold our place in Dillsburg, and, without having purchased a new house as yet, we packed all our belongings into several storage units. All my reloading stuff that had been in the same place for 21 years was then boxed up and stuffed away.
We lived in our camper and sometimes visited with our son-in-law for a few months while we worked on finding a new home. By the middle of July, we bought and settled on a nice brick ranch house close by in Mechanicsburg, but it was built in 1965 and needed some work done before we could move in.
We put our camper in the driveway and lived in it while we gutted the kitchen, refinished the hardwood floors, installed ceramic tile floors in the kitchen, breakfast area, laundry room, and foyer. Of course everything inside needed to be painted. We did not move into the house until late in October.
The house has a full basement with what was once a very nice apartment. Like the main floor, however, the basement apartment also needed to be remodeled. Once we did the main floor, we figured we would start work on the basement in the summer of 2006. I intended to use one room to display all my firearms, use a really big room for a family and gaming room, and to use what was once a bedroom as my new (smaller) reloading room.
Until I finished my basement plans, however, I would be out of the reloading business. Shooting trap on Thursdays meant I would have to start buying new shotshells by the case, and shooting anything else was not realistic since all my cartridges were packed and stored. I had firgured, however, that by the 4th of July 2006, I would have the basement redone and have been back to my reloading.
Wrong! Near the end of this past March, our youngest daughter and her two sons had to move in with us because of marital problems. They have been married 13 years, and this is a real sorrow for my wife and I as well. My daughter and the boys being here has made for some disorder for us, I have not been able to do my basement plans, and my reloading stuff is still in boxes.
I am still shooting trap each week, but I have been itching to do some rifle shooting. A few days ago, I was looking through one of my boxes of reloading stuff when I came across a cloth bag which contained everything I needed to reload 45-70 cartridges in the field. The bag had my Lyman Nut Cracker tool, primers, powder, measure dips, loading block, and bullets. I grabbed the bag and a box of 45-70 brass, went upstairs to our new kitchen counter top, and I took ten of the empty 45-70 cases to see if I still remembered how to make bullets. I had not used that Nutcracker for quite a while, but I reloaded those ten cases in less than 30 minutes.
I now have about 100 rounds ready to take out to the club and shoot that big old Marlin Cowboy. I may not be ready to go into the bullet business, but I am reloading again - somewhat.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile
It has been a while since I have been on the forum. In the spring of 2005, we sold our place in Dillsburg, and, without having purchased a new house as yet, we packed all our belongings into several storage units. All my reloading stuff that had been in the same place for 21 years was then boxed up and stuffed away.
We lived in our camper and sometimes visited with our son-in-law for a few months while we worked on finding a new home. By the middle of July, we bought and settled on a nice brick ranch house close by in Mechanicsburg, but it was built in 1965 and needed some work done before we could move in.
We put our camper in the driveway and lived in it while we gutted the kitchen, refinished the hardwood floors, installed ceramic tile floors in the kitchen, breakfast area, laundry room, and foyer. Of course everything inside needed to be painted. We did not move into the house until late in October.
The house has a full basement with what was once a very nice apartment. Like the main floor, however, the basement apartment also needed to be remodeled. Once we did the main floor, we figured we would start work on the basement in the summer of 2006. I intended to use one room to display all my firearms, use a really big room for a family and gaming room, and to use what was once a bedroom as my new (smaller) reloading room.
Until I finished my basement plans, however, I would be out of the reloading business. Shooting trap on Thursdays meant I would have to start buying new shotshells by the case, and shooting anything else was not realistic since all my cartridges were packed and stored. I had firgured, however, that by the 4th of July 2006, I would have the basement redone and have been back to my reloading.
Wrong! Near the end of this past March, our youngest daughter and her two sons had to move in with us because of marital problems. They have been married 13 years, and this is a real sorrow for my wife and I as well. My daughter and the boys being here has made for some disorder for us, I have not been able to do my basement plans, and my reloading stuff is still in boxes.
I am still shooting trap each week, but I have been itching to do some rifle shooting. A few days ago, I was looking through one of my boxes of reloading stuff when I came across a cloth bag which contained everything I needed to reload 45-70 cartridges in the field. The bag had my Lyman Nut Cracker tool, primers, powder, measure dips, loading block, and bullets. I grabbed the bag and a box of 45-70 brass, went upstairs to our new kitchen counter top, and I took ten of the empty 45-70 cases to see if I still remembered how to make bullets. I had not used that Nutcracker for quite a while, but I reloaded those ten cases in less than 30 minutes.
I now have about 100 rounds ready to take out to the club and shoot that big old Marlin Cowboy. I may not be ready to go into the bullet business, but I am reloading again - somewhat.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile
I moved here to the people's republic of Illinois and had almost given up on shooting in general when we were raising our kids. The kids are all out of high school now and in college and I live in the country with a shooting range literally 100 yards out the back door. I don't load much compared to the others on these forums, but I did my spreadsheet yesterday and 5350 rounds went downrange last year. You have no idea how tickled that made me. 
