ranger56528
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Not gun related but I did get in my truck one time and forgot where to put the key(yes I was sober just in case you asked),more of a age thing I think hahaha.
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Was driving to the NRA convention in Nashville in 2015, got halfway there and realized that yes I had my spare mag but I had left the gun behind!
If something had happened I guess I would have had to THROW the bullets at them.
If something had happened I guess I would have had to THROW the bullets at them.
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I just wanted to post back and say I installed a scope today, it was pointed in the right direction 
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I installed a new scope this weekend, best job I'd ever done. Meticulous attention to every detail.
Until I realized I'd installed it backwards
I didn't do that , but I installed one once with the windage adjustment on top .
morcey2
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Not gun related, but while building a guitar amp I got the turret board drilled and staked only to realize that I had done the wrong side of the turret board. I drilled out the turrets and staked new ones. Only then did I realize that I had it right in the first place. But I was completely out of turrets and it would have taken another week to get more So I soldered it up that way and ended installing the board upside-down on really tall standoffs in the chassis. Thankfully I haven't had to do any repairs on it because that would be a real pain.
This is what it looked like after it was populated. Unfortunately the component side of the board isn't accessible once installed.
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This is what it looked like after it was populated. Unfortunately the component side of the board isn't accessible once installed.
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bikemutt
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I did another one yesterday
I'm new to reloading, using all Lee equipment. I decided to neck size some .223 brass and hand load for a Savage 10 bolt rifle. Because I can be real dumb sometimes, I thought the neck sizing die was the one without the stem. So I figured I'd prime the brass, then neck size it.
Oops. The one without the stem is the factory crimp die.
So, I took all 25 cases to the range and fired off the primers, then I started over
I'm new to reloading, using all Lee equipment. I decided to neck size some .223 brass and hand load for a Savage 10 bolt rifle. Because I can be real dumb sometimes, I thought the neck sizing die was the one without the stem. So I figured I'd prime the brass, then neck size it.
Oops. The one without the stem is the factory crimp die.
So, I took all 25 cases to the range and fired off the primers, then I started over
MICHAEL T
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Measure twice cut once . I did that on a door .Needed 1/2" removed . Made best cut ever . Except at top not bottom . Recut and hung Nice gap at top of door. Well that room was unheated so Heat from other room rises and will now flow in to other room. Great reason for the custom cut. . Wife didn't buy and for almost 20 years now I see that door and wife enjoys telling story. I am no longer allowed use of saw. Besides she better at remodeling than me any way.
CapnMac
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I've noticed that, when ever something seems too easy, that it when too well, ot too much exactly as planned, that I stop and check back through all the step to see what I screwed up.
Which is really vexing if I don't find anything out of place.
Which is also annoying as I know I have several competencies that ought to be reflexive,
Other than that [expletive] Murphy.
Like getting all the QD tip-over stuff set up, and then carefully packed in a MOLLE case. To forget to thread the MOLLE on. Which worked out as I failed to pack up and take the M4 on TDY with me. Sigh. Wouldn't have gotten any range time in anyway. So, Murphy was only half an [expletive].
Disassembled an entire network patch panel mad the whole time about how badly it had been gundecked. Reassembled it, and it worked. Was so surprised I tested it way too many times trying t o find out what I had screwed up. Has not Hindenburged yet, so, I'm calling it blind pig luck.
Which is really vexing if I don't find anything out of place.
Which is also annoying as I know I have several competencies that ought to be reflexive,
Other than that [expletive] Murphy.
Like getting all the QD tip-over stuff set up, and then carefully packed in a MOLLE case. To forget to thread the MOLLE on. Which worked out as I failed to pack up and take the M4 on TDY with me. Sigh. Wouldn't have gotten any range time in anyway. So, Murphy was only half an [expletive].
Disassembled an entire network patch panel mad the whole time about how badly it had been gundecked. Reassembled it, and it worked. Was so surprised I tested it way too many times trying t o find out what I had screwed up. Has not Hindenburged yet, so, I'm calling it blind pig luck.
Mark 40
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I installed a new scope this weekend, best job I'd ever done. Meticulous attention to every detail.
Until I realized I'd installed it backwards
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Heh, I've measured more than twice and still cut something wrong, or in the wrong spot, before. It's very annoying when you pay particularly close attention and still screw it up. Anyone who has done trim work has done this at one time or another.
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I'm beginning to suspect that fully half of us dealing with binary things like doors and scope turrets and primer arms and hot water for an outside hose connection are victims of this.
Tried to replace a barrel on an Italian rifle once, then after using cheater bars and whatnot to no avail, discovered that it was screwed to the receiver with a left-hand thread. This led to me composing a poem and posting it on my shop wall:
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
After wrenching and twisting and turning red,
Dammit to hell, that's a left-hand thread !
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Tried to replace a barrel on an Italian rifle once, then after using cheater bars and whatnot to no avail, discovered that it was screwed to the receiver with a left-hand thread. This led to me composing a poem and posting it on my shop wall:
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
After wrenching and twisting and turning red,
Dammit to hell, that's a left-hand thread !
Terry, 230RN
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Never a barrel, but I have tightened a left hand thread bolt tighter than hell before I realized what it was. I always look at the threads if possible now, and if I can't, and it seems too dang tight for its own good, the old alarm goes off now.
berettaprofessor
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So, I took all 25 cases to the range and fired off the primers, then I started over
Could you not have removed the decapping pin from your sizer and just resized the primed cases? What don't I understand?
(Just reread the post and saw you're a new reloader....so now you know that you didn't have to fire them off
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