What do you listen to when you reload?

[cpttango30]

After looking and drooling over all the nifty reloading benches on here. I have seen many stereos and TVs on or nest to the bench.

What do you listen to when you reload?

I have mine on either a talk radio station here (106.7 WJFK) or DC 101 a rock station (101.1). The CD player on my radio broke. But I have a wide verity of music I listen to from Zeppelin to Manson and many in between.

So lets hear it.

 

[Stinger]

I listen to the sound of the press.

 

[p89cajun]

Country music. Thats pretty much all my radio will pick up since I dont have an intena which is fine with me since I really don't listen to much other than country. The older the better.

 

[R.W.Dale]

NOTHING! Distractions while reloading can = bad things

 

[Catshooter]

I agree, the press. It will talk to you if you listen.


Cat

 

[Walkalong]

Nothing. I'm working. Concentrating on one thing.

But I do like Zeppelin, and Canned Heat, and 10 years after, and....................................

 

[jhansman]

I know the conventional wisdom is anything other than that little voice in your head is bad news to listen to while reloading, but I put on very mellow ambient, and it is perfect. Puts me in a groove that lets me focus nicely on the task at hand. A cup of joe to keep the alertness quotient juuuuuust right, and I'm in heaven.

 

[Win75]

I don't want anything on and I turn off the phone so it does not interupt me.

 

[tmorg]

Fox news. in perticular "the o'reily factor"

 

[sm]

Rock-n-Roll, like what I grew up with.
Bob Seger, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, CCR, Derek & The Domino's , Steppenwolf, ZZTop, Allman Bros...

Delta Blues, Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy,
Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raiit, Stevie Ray Vaughn...

Country, Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff Walker, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw.

Old school perhaps, but I was raised to shoot with noise, lights flashing, reloading was done, safely, still some serious cranking out to do.

I at one time had 11 Shot shell reloaders. All my serious loads done on single stage.
My trusted bunch, have cranked out reloads for 8, 10, 12 hours at one "session".

We'd shoot maybe 600-800 rds b/t Thurs and Sunday, plus practice sessions of at least 4 rounds and as many as 16 in a day...

30,000 rds a year, in one gauge, was normal...

Serious production running reloaders to get the shells out...
Pallets of reloading components being transformed into live ammo.

My buddies doing center fire, shooting handguns , doing the same thing.

WE have been known to literally dump shotshells into the bed of a truck, drive truck to private shooting range, and shoot every last shell in that truck bed, in one day, for practice .
30 gal and 55 gal drums full of shells have been gone through in one day...

Recently, we cranked out 5k 20 ga shotshells, in one session.
When them primers were gone, it was time to stop the session...

Crank it up- crank 'em out!

 

[BUGUDY]

Just started loading, my mind is thinking too much to hear anything.

 

[carnaby]

I listen to a range of stuff, from the appropriate sounds of just me and the press to the inappropriate stuff like NPR and the Bible on CD

NPR isn't half as bad as you'd think, but when it is bad, it's laughably so. For some reason they feel the need to put some really far out socialist stuff on their about once every couple of months.

 

[Asherdan]

Johnny Cash. Reloading is my Johnny Cash time.

 

[BUGUDY]

New member giving thanks

Posted a question on SKS rifles on the 13, after overwheming response in the positive, my SKS is on the way. Thank you

 

[mswestfall]

Country old time Rock-n-Roll.

The Allmon Brothers
The Doobie Brothers
Lynard Skynard
The Marshall Tucker Band, etc.

And of course I listen for the snap of the primer spring.

 

[Wedge]

chunk-chunk

chunk-chunk

chunk-chunk

 

[maxsnafu]

1812 Overture

 

[ChristopherG]

I listen to lecture series from this company:

http://www.teach12.com

"The Teaching Company" offers college level lecture courses on a wide range of subjects. Started by checking them out of local libraries, then got an ipod and started buying them (on sale--they can be very expensive otherwise) and have learned quite a bit through probably 20 courses, maybe 3 or 400 lectures.

 

[kir_kenix]

i usually listen to the same music i listen to in my car...only quieter. sometimes i even forget im playing music, and when i check ive played thru one album 2 or 3 times.

but id say distrubed, slipknot, korn, linkin park, etc get more play time than anything else.

 

[Bboomer]

Complete silence unless the tumbler is tumbl'n. And of course the sounds of the blue press.

 

[snuffy]

NOTHING! Other than the sound the press makes. Oh yes, it talks to you. It's language is metallic, the sounds become rhythmic. If something happens to interrupt that rhythm, it usually will result in a bad shell. In other words, it should sound the same each time.

 

[David Wile]

Hey folks,

I think I am a mixture of most of you. There are some mindless tasks such as resizing or repriming where I am comfortable with the TV on or listening to music. There are other tasks where I find music or TV to be detremental to my working. In fact, when I am reloading shotshell or metallics on a progressive loader, I find it very difficult to concentrate if there is another person in the room with me. When somone asks me if I will show them how a progressive press works, I tell them ahead of time that having another person present while I use these presses causes me to work far slower than I would if I were alone. For me, the progressives are extremely demanding of one's attention to detail, and if I have to explain how the loader works, it means I have to really go very slowly to keep from making a mistake.

If I am loading on a single stage loader, I find it very easy to have company and to carry on a conversation while operating the press.

Best wishes,
Dave Wile

 

[XD-40 Shooter]

I don't listen to or watch anything. Reloading requires my complete and undivided attention, distractions = possible double charges, squibs, ect.

 

[arflattop]

Slow and deliberate with a single stage press. Listen to Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Luther Allison and the rest of the Blues genre.....When I worked, I'd close the door to my office and crank them up when I closed the books each month. Helped me focus..........

 

[Otto]

Nothing. Silence is golden.