What do you have waiting for you in the reloading room?

armoredman said:
I went to the reloading room last night, setup some rifle brass outside to spray the One Shot on for resizing, and then the gunshots started. 3 groups of 3 rounds each, slow fire, but what got MY attention was the one in the second group that I heard ricochet over my head! Needless to say I finished up very quickly and got back inside. This used to be a very peaceful neighborhood.
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Wow! Sorry to hear that. Careful out there.
 
armoredman said:
I went to the reloading room last night, setup some rifle brass outside to spray the One Shot on for resizing, and then the gunshots started. 3 groups of 3 rounds each, slow fire, but what got MY attention was the one in the second group that I heard ricochet over my head! Needless to say I finished up very quickly and got back inside. This used to be a very peaceful neighborhood.
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So I am assuming your house is not close to a range, and that was haphazard gunfire in the streets….!!:oops:o_O
 
armoredman said:
Yes, which is VERY unusual for this area.
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My old berm backed up on a cattle farm. So did another fella’s. Rancher used to say he didn’t mind the shooting as long as nobody bought a cow.

One day the other fella bought a cow when his son brought in a gaggle of buddies and they didn’t control a thirty-cal AK properly. After that we all agreed not to shoot when there were cows in the pastures.

Some folks just can’t have nice things. This was around ‘98-99 and over the years we’ve added to the niceties to account for the stupids.
 
armoredman said:
I went to the reloading room last night, setup some rifle brass outside to spray the One Shot on for resizing, and then the gunshots started. 3 groups of 3 rounds each, slow fire, but what got MY attention was the one in the second group that I heard ricochet over my head! Needless to say I finished up very quickly and got back inside. This used to be a very peaceful neighborhood.
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Around here that'd get PD helos, SWAT, lawyers, and voter registration activists combing the area to find the culprit, draft commonsense gun safety legislation, and register people to vote for it.

46 years ago we made our first trip up to my wife's hometown, Butler PA. (Yes, that Butler). I pointed out to my new MIL several dings in her aluminum siding on back of house. She simply said they were from errant shots during hunting season. "We just stay inside after Thanksgiving" she said matter-of-factly.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
I really like the, "What have you done in the reloading room today" thread but it seems like a lot of it is us all catching up on the stuff we should never have got behind on. I've got brass stowed and tucked away in places I can't even reach, don't remember until something goes wrong, and that's just what in the house. I don't even know what's squirreled away in the shed and pole barns anymore.

So here's the question: What have y'all got waiting for your attention in the reloading room - or where you keep your reloading stuff, maybe - that you've been putting off, forgot about, never got that round tuit for, and just plain slipped through the cracks?

For me, it's processing and sorting brass. Gotta get a round tuit but they're just real elusive pieces of equipment.
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more than i'll ever get to.

5 gal buckets filled with mixed range pick ups
cases of new 223/308 bought before/after various times of shortages
5 gal buckets of sorted/cleaned 9mm and 45 acp brass

it be a long list
 
I got back home about an hour and a half ago. I’ve been gone since the 16th. so my entire reloading room is waiting on me. Now I have all the stuff packed up and waiting on the floor to go build a shooting cupola on a buddy’s barn roof. Next weekend. And a box of 500 9mm 115 gr hap bullets is waiting.
 
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Two hundred primed 38spl cases are waiting to be loaded later today. Always have thousands of cases to be cleaned & decapped. Usually have several hundred clean, ready to prime cases since I stage my reloading procedure to KISS. Today just drop powder, seat bullet and crimp on LEE classic 4 die turret press. Fast, simple & hard to screw up.
 
I said I wasn't going to buy anymore brass then three *years* after I put my name on their waiting list Starline emailed to say they were offering 327 magnum brass again so did I still want it?

Well, yes, I did still want it! What's more they sold it to me at their price from (now) nearly four years ago. So there it sits on my reloading table staring at me reproachfully for not having loaded it yet.

Then there was the fella at the gun show last spring with a big bag of 44 special brass wanting to move it before the show closed so made me a good price...

My oldest daughter complains about the clutter on my reloading table. I tell her "so go to the show with me to tell me not to buy it!" (laughing)
 
Dunross said:
I said I wasn't going to buy anymore brass then three *years* after I put my name on their waiting list Starline emailed to say they were offering 327 magnum brass again so did I still want it?

Well, yes, I did still want it! What's more they sold it to me at their price from (now) nearly four years ago. So there it sits on my reloading table staring at me reproachfully for not having loaded it yet.

Then there was the fella at the gun show last spring with a big bag of 44 special brass wanting to move it before the show closed so made me a good price...

My oldest daughter complains about the clutter on my reloading table. I tell her "so go to the show with me to tell me not to buy it!" (laughing)
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The cure for that is a bigger reloading table, aka more space...... Depending on setup shelving can be a good space saver.
 
I have a partial box of sized .357 Mag cases waiting to test the Lee Bench Prime and the Derraco priming tool. I'm gonna time them,
as well as my old RCBS hand primer. Not racing, just moving along at a good pace. See how I like them and see how quickly I can prime
with them.
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I have some 5.56 brass awaiting processing as it has been for months. It is clean so the fun part of size, swage, and trim remain. I did do a third of this brass from a 90lb start and sorted it down to approximately 75lbs after getting rid of the cases too mangled to be useful to me. So approximately 50lbs to go.
 
lightman said:
Looking forward to hearing how you like these.
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I like them enough I bought another 20K. They all went bang, no issues, none out of round. Consistency is identical to all the other US makers, they flow through automated primer feed systems without issues, SD's were all right in the same range I get with any other. I think they are plenty high quality, and more importantly, I can get them. I've now tested them in SP, LP, and LR. I have no qualms at all about using these and plan to order more.
 
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