Well now ya got me looking, it was in fact slightly deeper set than it should have been, I pulled it, thank you sir! I'd probably would have never seen or noticed it otherwise. I appreciate that.Cool to use the same stuff as gramps or great gramps. My OCD compels me to ask if the primer in the round above the M is set too low.
Welcome to the forum!
Jim
If you stick around you’ll notice that almost every time someone posts a pile of reloads there is one with a high or low primer, it’s uncanny.
From 38spl? Nah. But if he was re-sizing 30-06, then yeah.Hello from Raleigh, what reloading gear are you using, your arm must look like Arnold's
Haha, not quite, I'm using lee turret presses with self indexing. I can actually get a really good rhythm going, but this has been done over a good little while now, 250 rounds here and there, the occasional 500 round session, etc.Hello from Raleigh, what reloading gear are you using, your arm must look like Arnold's
Wait, your powder scale looks off.
Just kidding. That's MY luck. Load a bunch of rounds only to find you loaded them wrong.
Never really knew my maternal grand dad, he died when I was little. But my other grand dad lived to be a ripe old age, and took me fishing a lot when I was young. I have his fishing hat (an old pith helmet) in my reloading shack.
She's got a little weight to her, something was going to have to give though, I kept having to buy new Tupperware containers for the kitchen cause I brought them all down and filled them up too...I've even got Butter tubs full of 45 colts...I may need a storage intervention actually.
Question for you, the air tight containers, and desiccant packs people concern themselves with for ammo storage, is it really necessary? I fired some of my great grandfathers reloads from up in top of his unclimate controlled outdoor building from a box labeled 1978 the other day...they looked exactly as my reloads do, other than a very mild white residue in the middle of a few of the jacketed rounds with lead hollow points. I mean, I just dont see me keeping ammo that long and that was I assume 41 year old ammo. And I've probably never kept any of my ammo or reloads more than a year before shooting and replacing. Not trying to argue or disprove or anything like that, I'd simply just like to know why so much stock in it?
I've had corrosion form on ammo that was left in supposedly airtight containers from the existing moisture in the container. Considering I leave ammo in vehicles and other places that get temp swings and the fact that I get the packs and containers for free....its a no brainer
I appreciate the reply, it was genuine curiosity on my part, just never seen anything this far that spiked a need for me to do so. May be because all mine is climate controlled in my home, and when I travel I have a bag with ammo and such that goes with me, just as much a part of my luggage as my clothes, then it goes right back in the house.
ou want. I found lady that had a bunch the other day. I bought 6 of the large and 6 of the small.
Eh, I'll probably just stick with the coffee cans, hell might even use some of the metal buckets with metal lids that I got from his stash too. Wonder how many 38/357s loaded up will fit in a 5 gallon bucket.....and yes, that's among the ton of powder I got out of his reloading room too. It was climate controlled as well, already loaded some up and tested it, normal velocities, and nothing abnormal about it.
Valid point, I'm a fairly stout guy, work as a Paramedic and use people as my everyday weight lifting, but your probably right, if that got full of loaded ammo itd probably be a no go or a hell of an ordeal.
1984 is what's written on the top of most of it, I assume that's probably the last time he bought what I'd say was a "metric shitton" in bulk...lol.
You're one lucky son of a gun. I gotta feeling my two grandsons will be making out like bandits too.
Had to wait until I got home to point out that it was a tongue in cheek comment, that I have a passing familiarity with them. Will probably pick up more at the gun show tomorrow.
