We're moving to a new house. What a pain in the tuchus what with all my reloading gear and components. Lead is dense and thus projectiles are heavy, that's a given. What surprised me is how heavy my brass is. Still so many boxes to pack and move...
As a fellow reloader I can relate. We moved 5 times in 3 years. I actually had to shoot factory ammo one deer season because my reloads were somewhere in storage.We're moving to a new house. What a pain in the tuchus what with all my reloading gear and components. Lead is dense and thus projectiles are heavy, that's a given. What surprised me is how heavy my brass is. Still so many boxes to pack and move...
You have my sympathy. If I am ever in the position where I can "G.T.F.O.O.I." (Get The "F" Out Of Il-ANNOY), I'll be in the same dire straits.
When I moved to Alabama in 2015 had to dedicate one of my trucks and separate trailer just for hunting gear, guns, ammo, safes and reloading bench. Adds up quick -- probably a solid four tons and only grown since then. Wife was paranoid about getting stopped and making the news LOL. After loading the safe and locking cabinets on their side, you can lay moving blankets inside and put guns inside in layers without fear of it shifting/falling over and keep everything locked up tight.You have my sympathy. If I am ever in the position where I can "G.T.F.O.O.I." (Get The "F" Out Of Il-ANNOY), I'll be in the same dire straits.
What a pain in the tuchus what with all my reloading gear and components. Lead is dense and thus projectiles are heavy, that's a given. What surprised me is how heavy my brass is.
This is why I feel sorry for the mailmen/UPS drivers in my area. There are options to moving your stuff tho if it's too much of a hassle......it's called a "moving sale".
Just sayin'.......
The weight is bad enough, but even worse is trying to do it with things in cardboard. Cardboard won’t hold much, and it won’t stack heavy very well either. When I moved cross country I put everything in mil surplus ammo boxes. That gave me something that would handtruck and stack well. Mostly 50 cal boxes for me, but I had some 30 cal and 20mm boxes as well. And now that I’ve moved it’s a great way to store and organize my ammo.
Worked in PDSR California. Retired in 2010. Moved back to the United States. Yeah, it's a pain in the yarmush. (Obsolete Klingon word meaning "place where one does not want pain".)
Aside from all the firearm specific stuff, go through your possessions NOW and divest yourself of all the extraneous materials you and your lady wife and heirs have accumulated. Clothes you do not and will not wear, the 200 extra pens - most of which have dried out, calendars of the past five or six years, and little mementos you can't place with anything. After over ten years, I'm still asking myself "Why did I pay those movers to drag all this garbage halfway across the country?"
The best of fortune in the move itself and your new location.
I did #1 once and #2 twice, told the wife next move in in an urn!It's been said that moving is the 2nd most stressful activity in life, getting a divorce is #1.