coloradokevin
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Well, I went out for a big meal tonight with my wife and mother-in-law. So, my usual workout routine for the evenings was interupted by a dire need to digest for a much longer period of time than I usually do 
Anyway, I decided I'd head down to the shop and load up 50 pieces of .223 brass that I'd previously processed and primed.
First mistake was when I decided to set things up... Following my usual routine, I pulled out the primers and placed them in the primer tray. Then I remembered that I'd already primed this brass! So, I needed to individually place each primer back into it's little slot in the primer carton. But, I decided to drop the whole thing while trying to accomplish this task, and thereby ended up spilling 50 primers across my shop floor (which is cluttered with other tools, etc).
Finding these primers was like looking for an explosive needle in a hay stack. This took a few minutes. Naturally, one primer was missing at the end, and it took me ten minutes to find this one (sitting under my tumbler... which would have probably been a bad spot the next time I fired that thing up).
Well, moving right along...
I pull out my brass that I was planning to load, and some how manage to drop this too. I'm really on a roll at this point, but the brass was much easier to find than the primers, so I only lost less than five minutes on this blunder.
I then start scooping and trickling my powder into each case, and this goes swimmingly for about 15 cases. Then I accidentally drop half a scoop of powder on the bench/floor (at least it wasn't the one pound container!).
By this point I'm finding it tragically funny, and wondering if I'm in some physical state that would make me unable to safely load tonight! Anyway, I continued and managed to load everything without further problems.
But, don't you love it when stuff just can't go right, no matter how hard you try?
Anyway, I decided I'd head down to the shop and load up 50 pieces of .223 brass that I'd previously processed and primed.
First mistake was when I decided to set things up... Following my usual routine, I pulled out the primers and placed them in the primer tray. Then I remembered that I'd already primed this brass! So, I needed to individually place each primer back into it's little slot in the primer carton. But, I decided to drop the whole thing while trying to accomplish this task, and thereby ended up spilling 50 primers across my shop floor (which is cluttered with other tools, etc).
Finding these primers was like looking for an explosive needle in a hay stack. This took a few minutes. Naturally, one primer was missing at the end, and it took me ten minutes to find this one (sitting under my tumbler... which would have probably been a bad spot the next time I fired that thing up).
Well, moving right along...
I pull out my brass that I was planning to load, and some how manage to drop this too. I'm really on a roll at this point, but the brass was much easier to find than the primers, so I only lost less than five minutes on this blunder.
I then start scooping and trickling my powder into each case, and this goes swimmingly for about 15 cases. Then I accidentally drop half a scoop of powder on the bench/floor (at least it wasn't the one pound container!).
By this point I'm finding it tragically funny, and wondering if I'm in some physical state that would make me unable to safely load tonight! Anyway, I continued and managed to load everything without further problems.
But, don't you love it when stuff just can't go right, no matter how hard you try?
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