This thread had me up all night reminiscing about my grandfather who taught me how to reload ... at least what he knew back then, which was quite a lot for his time in the 40s, 50s, 60s and early 70s before he passed. He was a WWII vet and he seemed 20 feet tall to me back then.
But this thread reminded me of something he used to say all the time while teaching me, especially if I did something stupid. He used to say, "don't be a Rock chunking Chuklehead."
LOL I was never quite sure where he got that from because he didn't use a press of any sort for years, he always used a Lee Handloader, but when he finally save up enough money for his Rock Chucker, in the mid 60s, he loved and worshipped that thing like it was gold. He always said it cost him more than a week's pay ... he was making maybe $50 bucks a week at the time.
So anyways, Rock Chucking Chucklehead was a pejorative to me and I dang sure didn't wanna be one.
But this thread got me to thinking about something I had forgotteb aboout long ago. About something he said, and showed me, about mixing powders. So early this morning I came out here to my man cave and started going through some of his old notes and manuals hoping to find it and, lo and behold ... I just found it. Almost made me choke up remembering grandpappy. The man was amazing. Not just an amazing horseman, rider, shooter, dad, husband and grandfather ... but just an amazing person. That this stuck in my head and prompted me to go on this search this morning ... well, it's been a good morning.
And now for the story of Chuck "Chuklhed" (I've been spelling it wrong in my head all these years.
I hope these two pictures come-through and the Chuck Chuklhed story and pictures contained within are readable. Moral of the story is "don’t concoct your own secret booster to enhance data propellants" ... and it's an old, tried and true, story to tell. Lol, if you can, read the labels on the cans in the pictures. Blasto Powder, Nuclear Research.