Where do primers go when you drop them?

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Just got a Ruger LCP and it is directly plugged in to that worm hole. I can watch somebody else fire it, watch the brass arc through the air and fall to the ground, but once it comes in contact with the ground it has a 77.3% chance of being sucked into a 380 sized worm hole. Once, a week later, somebody else's brass popped out of the worm hole and appeared nearby. If it's yours and you can tell me the headstamp I'll send it back.
 
Sock gremlins. They'll grab anything. Ever dropped a pill? The last one you have...and the pharmacy is closed on Sunday....
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I have a three year old. I know where that pill landed since it fell to the floor in slow motion. Unfortunately, time doesn't slow down like that when I drop a detent or pin, which I have learned to keep spares for.

I have gave up on socks. When I'm running low, I buy four or five packs at a time and throw all of my old ones away before opening the new ones.
 
Can't say I know where dropped primers go. Probably to the same dark corner of the universe as those spring detents that leap from your AR-15 lower receiver at half the speed of light.
 
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I was at work last month. I'd hear a slight click when I took a step. Took a look...stuck in the tread was that primes I dropped.
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Was that a live primer or a spent primer? I have trouble dropping both, thanks to Lee's sticking ram prime attachment, and the fact that their Auto-Prime is size just small enough to allow for dropping exactly 4 primers every time you dump in a new tray.

I'd imagine it would not be out of the oridnary to set off a live primer by walking around with it in your shoe tread (depending on which way the primer was facing). I doubt it would do much damage to your foot, but it might blow a lug off the sole or put a dent in the floor. It would definately wake you up though!
 
They go deep into the carpet, (even if you have no carpet; only tile/hardwood floors), to be picked up later by the "Mrs." while she is using the vacuum cleaner....



Never mind HOW I know...I just know :D :D :what: :D
 
They go to the same place as small coins and screws when you drop them; primer limbo.
 
Carl N. Brown said:
Socks get caught in a mini wormhole in the space time continuum caused by the whirling electomagnetic flux created inside an electric dryer. The wormholes terminate in a huge pile of socks on the far side of the moon.

Those wormholes persist after the dryer has been turned off and sweep through the house until they lose energy. I am missing a slotted end for my cleaning rod, and it's probably on the far side of the moon with my missing socks.
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While time warps explain many of life's mysteries, single socks are not among them. Socks are the larval form of coat hangers. There's no other explanation. :D
 
hahaahah

timely thread

yesterday, my son showed me a used primer behind the bathroom door........50 ft away from where i reload!
 
Same place those Ruger trigger plunger / springs do - opposite side of the room, in the darkest corner, hiding underneath te dust bunnies.

Unless you heard a noise upon launch to give direction, they will be found at the point that reassembly has commenced with the new parts 14 tp 21 days later.
 
W L Johnson said:
???????

There is no such thing as THE "dark side" of the moon, all parts of the moon have a day/night cycle just like here on earth, its just a bit longer as in 28 earth days. The moon is rotating the same way earth does but it rotation is gravity locked with earth so it rotational period is the exact same length as it's revolutionary (going around the earth) period . Which is why we on earth always see the same face. So there is a day side and a night side but that is always moving. Thus "far side" in respect to earth is correct.
Now... where's my coffee?
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Phoey, Pink Floyds says that it's the dark side of the moon, so it must be so!!!!! As far as primers are concerned, mine always seen to magically make it from the garage to the living room carpet where my wife is guaranteed to find it. That's usually when I get yelled at because the dog might find it and blow up.
 
1911 recoil spring plugs are subject to the same time warp anomaly.

They invariably blink out of this time space continuum the second they slip past my finger, then reappear moments after I purchase a replacement.
 
Lost primers make their way through the border with Mexico via quantum tunneling (or using the existing tunnels underground), and end up in American assault weapons that kill thousands of children and infants there every day all by themselves. :neener:

W L Johnson said:
There is no such thing as THE "dark side" of the moon, all parts of the moon have a day/night cycle just like here on earth, its just a bit longer as in 28 earth days. The moon is rotating the same way earth does but it rotation is gravity locked with earth so it rotational period is the exact same length as it's revolutionary (going around the earth) period . Which is why we on earth always see the same face.
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Well, not exactly, due to libration. :D
 
My dyson is always full of primers. My wife cant stand the clicking they make as they spin around the canister
 
W L Johnson said:
???????

There is no such thing as THE "dark side" of the moon, all parts of the moon have a day/night cycle just like here on earth, its just a bit longer as in 28 earth days. The moon is rotating the same way earth does but it rotation is gravity locked with earth so it rotational period is the exact same length as it's revolutionary (going around the earth) period . Which is why we on earth always see the same face. So there is a day side and a night side but that is always moving. Thus "far side" in respect to earth is correct.
Now... where's my coffee?
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I'm guessing different generations?

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In my house that darned cat always finds them as well as the empty 30-06 brass and commences to bat them around the bedroom floor at exactly 3:12 AM every night that I drop one.:banghead: I am trained well as the swap usually involves me retrieving the brass/primer and swapping it for a couple cat treats.:D
 
Centaur 1 said:
Phoey, Pink Floyds says that it's the dark side of the moon, so it must be so!!!!!
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"There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun." - from the closing track "Eclipse"
 
Which is why we on earth always see the same face.
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So, essentially, the 'dark side' is the side that's shaded from the warm glow of Waters and Gilmour's colossal egos?

{dons nomex flight suit}
 
I found that no matter what I drop, it always ends up under the bench as far back as possible so I can't reach it. I finally got smart and screwed a 1 x 6 on the front of all my work benches to stop stuff from rolling under the bench. I now find everything up against the board. It saves a lot of time laying on the floor trying to reach stuff in the dark recesses of the abyess.
 
When a primer hits the floor I reach for my brass magnet to pick it up. Now, if I could only remember where I left the danged thing.
 
No mystery to me. No matter where I drop a primer--new or fired--it invariably lands in such a way as to cause it to roll. And they always orient toward the sump pump in the corner of the basement, and drop into the sump before I can stop them.

I don't know how they get there, but my socks end up in the "hozone."
 
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