Mmmmm oystersCouldn’t sleep last night so I started sorting through the miscellaneous .40 cases I found. Around 2AM I got frustrated trying to figure what stage of processing each pile was and just tossed them all in an oyster bucket. Now I know what stage they are: 0!
I’ll start like they were untouched Sunday - Saturday is already planned out to the last minute.
They make a good general purpose bucket for small projects - and for collecting oysters and clams, if you’re into that kind of thing. We have lots of Gulf oysters and clams this time of year.
I've got a bunch of 40 Smith brass I'm sitting on along with a bunch of ammo since I decided to stick with 45 Auto and 45 Colt only. I'll have to get with dad and figure out what it's going to take to get our website put together...They make a good general purpose bucket for small projects - and for collecting oysters and clams, if you’re into that kind of thing. We have lots of Gulf oysters and clams this time of year.
The buckets themselves I got at a local fishing store - I think they were $1/each but it was so long ago I have no idea how much they might be now. Some of the local urban-farming style hippies... er, I mean “hobbyists” use them for growing mushrooms so they’re probably $50 now.
Looks like there might be right around 1000 casings to process - all pretty clean so they’ve probably been tumbled in corn media at least once. Won’t hurt to tumble them again.
Now I know what stage they are: 0!
Yup. Funny thing is, after I dumped the bins into the bucket, I went to bed and slept like a log. I guess it was bothering me at a subconscious level.
Yup. Funny thing is, after I dumped the bins into the bucket, I went to bed and slept like a log. I guess it was bothering me at a subconscious level.
Trying to decide if I sort these on the way out of the tumbler or on the way out of the sizing die. I’ve done both and and when working with big batches both seem just as fast and efficient. Of course, more fun is to sit down at the dinner table and sort into boxes with my wife. She loves puzzles and head-stamp match-up is a fun game for her.
That’s the only place I have to sleep - between wife and dogs
Hmm I'll have to keep an eye out for them... I do like the 90gr CX bullets though... I was listening to the Hornady Podcast on them and they said it outperforms a Barnes bullet? They didn't actually name names but they said competitors product and such.
I saw one of the CX bullets after it was recovered from a white tail. It was a mighty pretty mushroom. You wouldn’t have really thought it to be a monolithic bullet.
Try sorting them in old dog treat or coffee ground containers, then later put them in quart zip lock bags and put a lable on the INSIDE of the bag. I sometimes get up in the middle of the night and do that stuff too.I got frustrated trying to figure what stage of processing each pile was and just tossed them all in an oyster bucket. Now I know what stage they are: 0!
Weight sorting anything is as stimulating as counting sheep. If that doesn't make you sleepy nothing will. It's only something I do when trapped inside during the winter.
I use the heck out of ziplocks. We keep them around the house for about anything that needs putting away.
Yes I like the dull color of the Winchester primers as well!
