Through years of therapy, and heavy doses of psychotropic drugs, I've come to a place in my life where I can almost tolerate an empty spot in the cartridge box. I finish up the box, look away as I close the lid, and put it under the bench with the other loaded, full, happy, productive, full boxes... that are full of fullness... and run away. But then, later, after I've forgotten about it, I'll open that box... and the severed head of emptiness hurtles towards me like a jack-in-the-box with a cream pie in it's hand... and I'm back in therapy again.
What's really weird is, 99 primers in a sleeve doesn't bother me one bit but, 49 ready-to-load cases in a 50/pcs box drives me nuts. Put those same cases in a baggie and all is good with the world again.Through years of therapy, and heavy doses of psychotropic drugs, I've come to a place in my life where I can almost tolerate an empty spot in the cartridge box. I finish up the box, look away as I close the lid, and put it under the bench with the other loaded, full, happy, productive, full boxes... that are full of fullness... and run away. But then, later, after I've forgotten about it, I'll open that box... and the severed head of emptiness hurtles towards me like a jack-in-the-box with a cream pie in it's hand... and I'm back in therapy again.
Put those same cases in a baggie and all is good with the world again.
I'm ok if they're in a baggie or coffee can as well. But a 50 or 100 round ammo box with one missing causes me issues.What's really weird is, 99 primers in a sleeve doesn't bother me one bit but, 49 ready-to-load cases in a 50/pcs box drives me nuts. Put those same cases in a baggie and all is good with the world again.
I blame it on my uncle Charlie. And coffee.
I have tried but a primer missing from a tray causes me issues. I can deal with 70 left in the tray knowing I loaded 30 for a ladder test though.Actually, I've gone to keeping only full trays (or boxes) of primers in my primer stash boxes, any partial trays are up on one of the bench shelves. It's funny how often you need 5 or 10... or one... primer, and so I don't feel so bad about that now... I don't even carry them on the inventory sheet.
I'll also load 100 rounds for the AR and put them in a baggie with the data written down and placed inside the baggie, and then place that in an ammo can. It makes it easy to grab a hundred or two rounds to take to the range, or the whole can. The next problem comes when I have ten rounds left in the bag and only brought thirty round magazines.Humor aside... I don't care. I don't like loose rounds, normally, but I've gotten past that by using those smaller plastic Harbor Freight ammo cans, rather than boxing up everything. Boxes make sense for target rounds in .308, for example, but 200 rounds of 7.62mm blasting ammo loose in a box works just as well
If it will easy your mind, I’ll take them off your hands. I have some .38 lead bullets…I’ll send you 2 for 1 and round up to an even 200 or 250. This is the flavor…I know the feeling, I have 99 125 grain critical defense 357 bullets. I can’t make myself load them and trying to sell them will just make someone else deal with it.
Paul, that is me some days. I've been known to bring the marshmallows as well. At my last job I gifted one of the admin assistants a box of matches and a bag of marshmallows to help get past the dumpster fire of the project she was involved in.Some people just want to watch the world burn. LOL