With all the new reloaders...

[chriske]

Oh yes : one other thing :
No-one can be blamed for "not knowing" : that's ignorance.
It does not equal stupidity, which is not wanting to learn.

 

[rdhood]

Anyone else feel this way or am I concerned for their well-being for no reason?

Rollback 4 years, and you can find the very same questions being asked. I don't remember fingers being blown off, or guns blowing up, or houses catching fire. I think you concerns are baseless.

p.s. I never read a manual, never got tutelage from more experienced folks, and still have all of my guns, hands, fingers. It's not rocket science.

 

[vujade]

The more people get into any sport/hobby/activity, the chances of getting an idiot (or someone smart) getting into an accident goes up. "It's arithmetic". (Just kidding, of course I didn't vote for him)

I'm seeing more and more newbies break the safety rules at the range. The other day, I was picking up brass and a bullet flew by me a few feet away. Some kid in tight pants and his new $900 gun - all he could say was ,"Sorry man". Geez.

My concern is that when skiiers break a leg - it's not in the news. If someone double charges a round and blows off a finger and shrapnel flies and hits a kid shooting next to him, they'll be in the news. I was counting the blessings the other day that the media and the public in general don't know about reloading.

Can you imagine the outcry when libs find out you can make your own "super cop-killer, armor penetrating bullets" in your own living room without a permit?!?

 

[gfanikf]

Is anyone else concerned about the well-being of any of the new reloaders???

Seems like a lot of folks are jumping in without checking the water first...ie. reading several reloading manuals, getting the advice and tutelage of experienced reloaders, not properly following safe reloading etiquette, etc...

I fear that several of them may blow off some fingers in their attempts to circumvent safety.

Anyone else feel this way or am I concerned for their well-being for no reason?

Don't worry I always ask others to test my loads first.

As anyone whose read these boards can point out (rcmodel especially might remeber me trying to find a pitetntially lost spent primer) I'm pretty neurotic with safety and always ask questions. Hell the time and cost I expended before ever making a complete round was ridiculous....but I wouldn't trade that for anything. It was valuable beyond measure and I just hope others take their time...but the flipside is if I can do it safely hopefully others can too.

I may ask some basic questions at times but its out of an abundance of caution and a desire not to injury/kill myself or my loved ones...or others at the range.

One problem with just books is I'm a very visual learner and benefit from seeing others do something first. I'm also nervous about deviating from explicit instructions.

Now to just shoot one of my rounds (time issue vs anything else). lol

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