Range Brass Caution

[mallc]

Sorted a bag of range brass yesterday that I collected after an IPSC match the day before. About 2/3s of the way through, I noticed an angry brown wood spider eyeing me with every one he had. When I went to evict him from MY collection, he decided to defend HIS castle!

Needless to say I won,,,,but only because I didn't pick up his particular case before he came out in the open.

Wrod to the wise - use caution whem sorting outdoor range brass.

Scott

 

[ReloaderFred]

There can be all kinds of little critters in those small round houses they find on the range. I made a screen with 1/4" metal construction cloth just for shaking out the dirt and dislodging those vicious little squatters in "my" brass.

Hope this helps.

Fred

 

[627PCFan]

"When I went to evict him from MY collection, he decided to defend HIS castle"

So now will you tell us the proper method to plug a .223 hole in a range brass bucket?

 

[Smokey Joe]

Yep...

Mallc, BTDT. Due to its size, I can't understand HOW the spider that ooshed itself out of one of my range pick-up .30-'06's managed to get in or out of that .308-sized doorway, but he/she did. Startling to say the least.

For my area, I've dealt w/some pretty large spiders. Nothing like the tropical ones, surely, but when my #1 son was little he and I would occasionally catch a cricket and toss it into the spiderweb to be found every summer in my garage, just to watch the spider come and paralyse it and wrap it up. Those spiders wouldn't have fit in any firearm brass short of mebbe a .50 BMG, or a 12 ga. hull.

Nature, red in tooth and claw...

 

[Shoney]

You big mean bullies. You should have taken the poor creature outside in his castle and nestled it into a protected place and fed it gnats and gnomes and the like.

Once you have gained his/her confidence, select the most detestable urchin of your neighborhood, and encorage them to pet your new little friend.

 

[Smokey Joe]

Well...

Once you have gained his/her confidence, select the most detestable urchin of your neighborhood, and encorage them to pet your new little friend.

Don't know about that, but once or 2wice my son brought friends in to demonstrate our "garage spider." The kids were invariably impressed.

Never had a garage break-in yet.

 

[Shoney]

In Northwest Montana, I used to have a particularly beautiful species of spider spin webs in our lee windows that didn't open. They normally reached 1 1/2 inches leg span and their webs were gorgeous in the right light.

The markings on the spiders were light yellow and black rings along the body with alternating black and yellow segments to their legs. One year I started feeding them flys and later in the season grasshoppers. Several per spider per day.

By fall they had abdomens like half a dime in profile, and legspan of 3 1/2 inches. Scared the bajeepers out of the meter readers.

 

[Halo]

The markings on the spiders were light yellow and black rings along the body with alternating black and yellow segments to their legs. One year I started feeding them flys and later in the season grasshoppers. Several per spider per day.

Sounds like some variety of garden spider, aka writing spider. In late summer they pop up all over my yard and last till the first hard frost. Some of them are so big I'm afraid I might get caught in the web!

I can't remember the figure, but there's a study out there about the amount of insect biomass consumed per average spider, it was an amazing figure. Agriculture would be totally impossible without spiders keeping insects in check.

 

[rg1]

Went to the garage to get a box of bulk 9mm bullets to load. Started to reach in to get some bullets and noticed something move. Peeped inside and a good sized Brown Recluse spider had made it's way into the box of bullets. I didn't feed it gnats or bugs or take it out in the yard and release it gently back into the wild! I reckon spiders prefer 9mm FMJ bullets?

 

[Halo]

I reckon spiders prefer 9mm FMJ bullets?

The measly 9mm is a very poor choice for spiders. It probably couldn't even make it through the web. Only the 45 has enough "knockdown power".

 

[scrat]

You big mean bullies

hahahahahah

 

[Shoney]

Golly Gee Halo, you opened a bad can of wormsNow we will hear from some old codger about having to use a 44mag to put down a charging bull spider durring it's mating season.

 

[stubbicatt]

Golly Gee Halo, you opened a bad can of wormsNow we will hear from some old codger about having to use a 44mag to put down a charging bull spider durring it's mating season.

Hell....I was THERE~!... LOL.

 

[Dravur]

I saw a Camel Spider up close once.......

I jumped about 3 feet in the air, and did the Wil E Coyote mid air run out of the scene....

STILL gives me both the Heebies AND the Jeebies