So tonight was .. strange.
Cleaning the gun room this week, I stumbled on a bag of primed 9mm that I'd sized and primed back in 1999, when I had my single stage. I *remember* the bag, and why I bagged it up. I had a single stage back then, and had sized and primed it but not belled it. I'd gotten ahead of myself, and dumped powder in them, only to find I couldn't seat a bullet!
So I dumped all the powder back out and dumped the brass in a bag "to get to it later", since I had other cases (belled) that I could load.
Well, that was 14 years ago. During various moves we made before settling on a house to own, that bag (containing 134 casings) got tossed in a box, and long forgotten about.
I got set up to load 9mm on my Dillon after dinner, turned out 500 rounds off unprimed brass. Then I backed the sizing die out, disconnected the case feeder, and dropped that primed brass down the tube.
By the time I was all done tonight, finishing up with that short run of old primed brass, I realized that I'd just FINISHED something I started some 14 years ago....
Which, when you think about it, is a really odd feeling.
Here's to the past!
Cleaning the gun room this week, I stumbled on a bag of primed 9mm that I'd sized and primed back in 1999, when I had my single stage. I *remember* the bag, and why I bagged it up. I had a single stage back then, and had sized and primed it but not belled it. I'd gotten ahead of myself, and dumped powder in them, only to find I couldn't seat a bullet!
So I dumped all the powder back out and dumped the brass in a bag "to get to it later", since I had other cases (belled) that I could load.
Well, that was 14 years ago. During various moves we made before settling on a house to own, that bag (containing 134 casings) got tossed in a box, and long forgotten about.
I got set up to load 9mm on my Dillon after dinner, turned out 500 rounds off unprimed brass. Then I backed the sizing die out, disconnected the case feeder, and dropped that primed brass down the tube.
By the time I was all done tonight, finishing up with that short run of old primed brass, I realized that I'd just FINISHED something I started some 14 years ago....
Which, when you think about it, is a really odd feeling.
Here's to the past!