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Post by budman5 on Dec 20, 2015 0:41:03 GMT -5
I've been lucky..Usually just fumbling a case full while going to the block
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Post by Snyd on Dec 20, 2015 1:44:27 GMT -5
I've been lucky..Usually just fumbling a case full while going to the block Is that "YOU" Budman?? If so, I still owe you 500L dummy round! p
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Post by budman5 on Dec 25, 2015 16:17:20 GMT -5
Yes it's ME... You got me started on Big Bore again, I'm enjoying working up loads for my Ruger 480.. Retirement is a bummer Right !
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Post by 375supermag on Dec 27, 2015 8:45:50 GMT -5
HI...
I remember inadvertently knocking over an open 1 lb plastic bottle of powder once. Didn't actually lose very much...looked a lot worse than it was. Powder scattered the length of the bench, probably no more than a couple or three ounces.
Having to stop my reloading routine and clean it all up was more aggravating than the loss of the powder.
I have had several instances where I messed up and spilled a part of a hopper out of a powder measure when emptying it out at the end of a reloading session. Never amounted to more than a nuisance spill.
I did get called away once and left powder in a hopper for an extended period of time(a couple of weeks before I got back to the reloading room). I never have more than one powder on the bench at a time so I knew what it was. Those funny little blue dots in the powder would have been a dead giveaway if I had put away the bottle of powder. The reloading blocks were still on the bench with the open box of bullets beside the press with the seating and crimping die in my RockChucker. The powder smelled just like the closed bottle and metered exactly as it always does. I checked every tenth charge like always and went ahead and used the powder. If being left in the powder measure hopper for two weeks did anything to the powder it was unnoticeable. I wouldn't do it intentionally but in a climate controlled environment such as my indoor reloading room, I doubt any deleterious effects would occur over a period of two weeks.
If I left powder sit in a hopper for an extended period of time(over a month), I would probably just throw it out on the vegetable garden and chalk it up to a lesson learned the hard way.
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Post by aciera on Dec 31, 2015 1:44:11 GMT -5
Not trying to be a "topper" but this reminded me of my dad. Lost him last year. He had a 240mm battery. And old Lt Bagged powder for each round. Ya don't use it, ya burn it.
Firing for an entire field problem he had 1000+ pounds.
Sgt. says to do it in small batches.
My Dad says book doesn't say that.
One shot........thought he set the range on fire.
Yes. He learned. Made Full Bird and always champion of the Enlisted.
Thanks for listening
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Post by whiterabbit on Jan 6, 2016 16:22:56 GMT -5
ooooooooooooh I have a GREAT story of spilled powder!
Went to the LGS about 2 years ago with my ~2 year old son. he was a wiggly one then. But still in that walks-like-a-drunken-sailor phase. Not too coordinated. Bubbly and giggly and happy to knock over whatever display was his height in the shop.
So I grab my 1 lb can of powder and go to pay. Now he has to be still and near the register, who has time for that at 2 years old? But we have to, so what does one do? He was interested in the powder since it sounds like a shaker when you turn it around, so I handed him the can as I paid. I remember thinking expressly: "He doesn;t know how to open bottles, his hands can't twist lids yet, and the can has a seal anyways." At the moment I have to hand over the card and sign is the ONE moment I can't pay simultaneous attention to my son and the transaction both. And that was the moment I heard the "fffssssshhhhhh" And look down.
My son has the lid off the can, seal off, can fully upside down and powder is pouring all over the carpet as though from an hourglass. I can laugh about it now! But what do you do in that case? I scooped great handfulls of loose powder back into the can, apologizing to the shop for my son's action. Never yelled at him, it was my fault of course.
The bigger surprise was the gun shop employee calmly said "no problem" and got a carpet picker-upper-roller and went over the loose grains I couldn;t get with my hands. His calmness gave me the impression this is not the first time such an event like this had been seen....
(for what it's worth, I admit I only lost a few hundred grains of powder out of 7000, and being pistol powder I loaded it anyways and shot it <25 yards for trigger practice. Shot fine. maybe just some lint in there, no more.)
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But the visual in my mind of a goofy 2 year old son playing with a "rattle" then dumping out nearly a pound of retail-bought gunpowder all over the floor at the moment I bought it makes me smile every time I think about it.
One day I'll talk about the brief trip to the LGS owned by the saltiest gentleman I have ever met when my son knocked down half the merchandise off ever peg display within 24 inches of the ground.
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Post by Snyd on Jan 6, 2016 17:00:54 GMT -5
A couple of great stories guys.... "Tragedy + Time = Humor" ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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