Started to clean up the loading room yesterday and not a minute before it needed it. Wouldn't ya know, first rattle out of the box, I found 400 MT 357 Mag & 38 Spl brass....and that did it; the housecleaning went off the tracks.
I knew right where to find a box of 150 gr. SWC hardcast bullets on another shelf, so went to the ammo cans for some primers, and LOOK what I discovered there! A full carton of.........
Look at those price tags!
I don't shoot a lot of .38's, and haven't shot the .357 in years, but do carry my Mod. 60 whenever hunting. Most of the brass was from a lot of 500 rounds of factory reloads I got a deal on years ago and that's getting thin, so, that settled it.
Turned the 450 around for .38's and cleared the deck. Couple hours later.....
Then, right next to the MT .38 brass was a box marked, in big red letters, DO NOT FIRE....OVERSIZED! Opening the box I found 78 rounds of 7.62 NATO Match brass loaded w/150 gr. SMK's from old competition days (ended in 1999)???? Don't recall the details, could have been for service rifle or bolt gun, but sure enough, wouldn't chamber in the Scout either, soooo. Set up the old Herter's to pull the bullets, resized cases and transferred the powder/bullets case to case on the Dillon.
All in all, a productive afternoon, but still have to get in there and clean up the loading room and, wouldn't ya know, I'm now out of the mood . Wonder what I'll uncover next to distract me; doesn't take a lot nowadays.
Regards,
hps
I knew right where to find a box of 150 gr. SWC hardcast bullets on another shelf, so went to the ammo cans for some primers, and LOOK what I discovered there! A full carton of.........
Look at those price tags!
I don't shoot a lot of .38's, and haven't shot the .357 in years, but do carry my Mod. 60 whenever hunting. Most of the brass was from a lot of 500 rounds of factory reloads I got a deal on years ago and that's getting thin, so, that settled it.
Turned the 450 around for .38's and cleared the deck. Couple hours later.....
Then, right next to the MT .38 brass was a box marked, in big red letters, DO NOT FIRE....OVERSIZED! Opening the box I found 78 rounds of 7.62 NATO Match brass loaded w/150 gr. SMK's from old competition days (ended in 1999)???? Don't recall the details, could have been for service rifle or bolt gun, but sure enough, wouldn't chamber in the Scout either, soooo. Set up the old Herter's to pull the bullets, resized cases and transferred the powder/bullets case to case on the Dillon.
All in all, a productive afternoon, but still have to get in there and clean up the loading room and, wouldn't ya know, I'm now out of the mood . Wonder what I'll uncover next to distract me; doesn't take a lot nowadays.
Regards,
hps