Some of the not so bright Reloading Ideas you have heard of.

[grendelbane]

I personally know of a couple of handgun cartridge loads that basically consist of filling the case with Blue Dot powder, and then seating a bullet, (a very light bullet), on top.

There are more adventurous souls who load some what more.

Some flake powders, and possibly some extruded powders, burn slower when compressed. That is how people get away with such tricks.

I really don't think such tricks are necessary for fun. Though, I admit, when younger, I pulled many tricks of my own.

 

[Smokey Joe]

Not so bright

Yeah, well, you can say all you want about die wear, and the cheapness of good brass, and being penny wise and pound foolish, and the extra effort required to size 'em, yada, yada, yada.

I'm STILL going to save money by not buying any brass, and sizing and reloading my milsurp and my Wolf steel cases! So there!

Next I'm going to save more money by reloading my Berdan-primed cases. So there again!

 

[BluesBear]

Heck, why buy cases at all? Or primers?
And who needs a reloading press, or dies anyway?


Just take a bolt action rifle...

Drop a bullet in the chamber...

Shake it until the bullet finds the rifling...

Pour in some powder in the chamber and close the bolt...

Light the green fuse that you fished through the firing pin channel when you removed the firing pin.

Viola... 21st century matchlock!

Try it. Darwin will be proud.













Of course this was meant to be satire.
No one would actually be stupid enough to really try this.

 

[Jmurman]

I had a buddy when I was A LOT younger would liked to play around with this kind of thing. One day he took 3 .22's and pulled the bullets and dumped the powder into his barrel after setting the empty barsss in the chamber. He then rammed a bullet in and fired it...blew the extractor right off his rifle.

His Dad found out about it and whomped his ass a good one!

 

[Smokey Joe]

More not so bright...

I'm gonna save money some more! Instead of my buying a loading manual, you guys on the Internet just tell me what loads to use.

While you're at it, tell me all the stuff I need to buy to start reloading.

Next tell me what to do with the stuff so I don't have to do any of that boring reading.

I'm loading .30 caliber so of course you know exactly what to tell me.

I want an all-around powder for reloading--shotgun, target pistol, magnum rifle--so I don't clutter up my reloading bench. What do you guys reccommend?

Again, to avoid clutter, I want to use my small magnum rifle primers in my .38Spl cases, can I do this?

What are the cheapest bullets I can load for extreme tack-driving accuracy?

I found this thing (vague description follows) in my Grandpa's attic. I think he used it for reloading something. What is it for?

 

[The Bushmaster]

And I'm getting tired of answering those questions too, Joe. This site is full of statements like "Buy a manual and read it. Better yet, buy two manuals and read them". I know. I've said it many times on this site and others.
And I (we) will say it again and again. It's frustrating to have to repeat this and also to answer their questions, but it must be done to keep people from getting hurt. If we don't the government will deem this hobby unsafe and for our "betterment" take this away, too.

I'm on your side, Smokey Joe.

 

[Smokey Joe]

THX, Bushmaster!

'Preciate the backup! It gets lonely sometimes.

Yeah, I'll continue answering those questions, too, and continue grinding my teeth, but will remain positive and encouraging to new potential reloaders.

2 good reasons:
(1) As shooters and reloaders, we need all the friends we can get.
(2) I subscribe to what I call "Thumper's Rule."

You may recall the scene, in the movie "Bambi," where Thumper observes--out loud--that the newborn Bambi is pretty awkward on his legs. Thumper's mom asks him, "Thumper, what did your father tell you about that just this morning??" And Thumper replies, (imagine little-boy-rabbit voice) "If ya can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." This is Thumper's Rule.

 

[Bullet]

Smokey Joe

I think the moderators should make a sticky titled NEW RELOADERS MUST READ.

Then tell them to read at least 2 reloading manuals before posting questions.

 

[SiG Lady]

His options are limited

"When I asked him why not use a Lee Safety Scale (only 20 dollars after all) his response was that not everyone has 20 dollars."

Cost of scale, $20 or less... average cost of a funeral, $6,000. The choice is obvious.

 

[Oldnamvet]

My grandfather told me of the type of BP reloading he and his friends used to do. They would, in his words, take a length of gas pipe and hammer a wood plug in one end. They soaked it in water to swell the wood so it stuck real good, then filed a little slot into the pipe on the top. They would put in 'some black power', pack down some pages from an old catalog, pour in everything from pebbles to carpet tacks, then tamp down some more paper. The pipe was strapped to some kind of stock. Two of them would creep along the hedges until they saw a rabbit sitting there. One would aim while the other touched a match to the filed slot to set off the charge and kill the rabbit (this was in the 1910 time frame). They did this a lot until someone didn't have the plug in well enough or an overcharge. The plug blew out and knocked out all of a friends front teeth. The powder also blasted back into his skin. He had no front teeth and black powder under his skin from then on. I was only 12 at the time I heard this and figured I'd try making a better model of homemade gun using a pipe cap. But my father must have known since he suddenly produced a new model 94C Stevens single shot .410. That was my constant companion during hunting season from then on and I never got around to those BP experiments with a homemade gun -- thankfully.

 

[carterbeauford]

Former coworker, a known pathological liar, use to rue what he assumed to be gun novices with tall tales. He claimed to reload his own .454 Casull cartridges:

"You're only supposed to put a maximum of 40 grains of power in, but I put in 60 for that extra kick."

I am no reloading expert but looking at a chart, this sounds kinda dangerous. I would really like to know if this would create enough pressue to blow revolver to pieces. I must note it was never verified that he owned a .454 Casull. God I am glad he is gone.

 

[Clark]

The problem is that we are all simpleton fools compared to the wisdom of God, but we like to think we are smarter than our fellow men.

When you encounter a real genius, one who never went to college but cranks out commercially highly valuable patents, ask him some questions about your own experiments. The big wake up call is when someone else can bring the conversation back to first principals and show you your mistakes, when you are bringing up the topics.



What does it all mean?
There is something to gain from focus not how you are smarter than someone else, but how someone else is smarter than you.