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OMG 😳

Now I don’t feel so bad. That’s a catastrophe. Retroactive Pears sent

or, two gallon coffe cans, no lids on the top rail of your truck bed, flying off as you turn on the freeway

Looks my reload room after the 6.2 shaker we had here a couple says ago.

7 years later...Laffin

That’s sounds about right.

Me, I would have just shut the light off and closed the door for good.

Grins

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Well, some components anyway. I know for certain that not all of them were rounded up.

Well, I’ll admit to using 2 hands with a jug weighing 50-60 pounds.

I store my cast bullets in these same cans. Those and Maxwell House blue cans.
I have never had a problem with them before but doing it one handed was the issue. My other hand had a full can of 44 mag brass and I was in too much of a hurry to set it down and use two hands. Yeah, saved myself a lot of time there. 🙄

I did better than that. I picked up all the things scattered about and put it in a box for future reference and then took great pleasure in flinging that crappy shelf out into the driveway. I thought about making sure it was dead by running it over with my pickup about thirty times, but I decided to save that for the next furnishing or accessory that fails me. I kinda let it slide when my HP printer took a schidt, but dropping it on the living room floor satisfied me because I was so happy to get rid of that POS.

You guys are making me feel better. Thanks. 😏🤪

A warning about metal coffee cans.
I recently opened one, and found that part of the brass had corroded due to galvanic action, I suppose.
Now, I only store brass in plastic containers - darn stuff is too hard to come by anymore.

There are times when you REALLY wish that brass was magnetic.

Good advice, I store mine in plastic bags once it's cleaned, Kitty litter pails when it's dirty.

Everyone who reloads shotshells has had that happen. I don't understand why they only sell shot in 25 pound floppy bags. I'd pay extra if I could buy shot in lighter weight bottles that I could just screw into the MEC loading press.

I store shot in plastic coffee cans and use some kind of dipper to load the bottles. A 2 liter soda bottle makes a great funnel for MEC presses by cutting the neck off the soda bottle. The neck of the bottle fits neatly into the opening in the shot bottle.

Nice hack, Leon. I hope I remember it next time I load shotshells, but I probably won't until there's about eleven pounds of shot under my feet next time I try to fire up my MEC.

Guess there's always tomorrow! Had a couple good earthquakes and think chite what if. Acquired another 20 Lbs of powder and 30-40 boxes of bullets. Was down there last night and found the 405 win bullets between the 6.5 and 7mm , how the f<uck that happen. Need more space.

Yep. Story of my life...so far!

You guys need to run livestock....the devil will come out. My boy made it 15 minutes into the first day of school before he got sent to the principal's office. He got angry at his teacher and called her a f#ing c#nt because that's what dad says when we work cows and gets mad.

I can relate OP.

I dropped a #10 can full of spent small primers tonight out in my reloading cave and they went everywhere ... all the way back under my benches, in every crack and crevice on the floor ... I tried catching them as they were in midair and I slapped spent primers into drawers and cabinets on the way down. Dust everywhere, anvils busted out and all over everything. They're dirty as all get out.

And I was saving those spent primers to try to recharge them. I was transferring them over into smaller plastic storage bottles and stashing them away for later.

It turned into an hour long cleanup mess.

When I bring a bag of shot home first thing I do is clip one corner and pour the shot into a square container with a large mouth ... I have a bunch of them, like the ones that cashews come in, salsa, nuts, peanut butter filled pretzels and so on and so forth.

I learned about tearing a bag of 7½ birdshot open the hard way. By the time I got it swept up it was so dirty it ended up in the casting pot and I made boolits out of it. Actually I made buckshot out of half of it.