The Gilded Bullet Award

[Texas10mm]

Don't you guys use thick leather work gloves when reloading?

Nope. I have enough trouble with my fat fingers and the arthritis. If I wore thick heavy gloves I wouldn't be able to pick up those itty bitty 9mm bullets.

I do wear a leather glove on my right hand when I cast. I use the right hand to open the sprue on 2-3 cavity molds.

 

[Archie]

When stapling a target on the holder, don't use your off hand to hold the cardboard behind where the staple is going, either.

 

[mstreddy]

Don't you guys use thick leather work gloves when reloading?

Some of us, some times, me included, should be wearing those gloves, Kevlar, or body armor, or any appropriate gear to keep our appendages from becoming part of the reloaded outputs.
But, generally we need the tactile feel while we reload.

 

[mstreddy]

When stapling a target on the holder, don't use your off hand to hold the cardboard behind where the staple is going, either.

OK, done that too!
I guess we should have called this the Me Too thread.

 

[Toprudder]

When stapling a target on the holder, don't use your off hand to hold the cardboard behind where the staple is going, either.

Once.

 

[alfsauve]

OK, done that too!
I guess we should have called this the Me Too thread.

Well, duh who hasn't? Once?

I hope this thread would be entertaining, but also serve as a heads-up to those who haven't had the pleasure.

 

[Texas10mm]

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I wear this apron while casting. Since it's Texas I do a lot of casting in shorts and a tee shirt. This keeps the hot stuff off the soft stuff.

 

[berettaprofessor]

I must be doing something wrong or haven’t been reloading long enough. But after about 5 or 6 years reloading, I have yet to damage my fingers or do any of the rest of this stuff. Maybe I’m just loading slower than you guys.

But I’m also a surgeon so am pretty careful about where I place my hands. I don’t need to stick a decapper into a finger.

 

[PWC]

Not a hurt, but feel like a dummy....priming a bunch of small primer 45ACP on single stage. Switched to large primer cases....took 2 pulls to figger why the primer stayed in the arm and wouldn't seat.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

I have not had the problems with the primers flipping or going in sideways, and I bench prime. Must be the added feel you get doing it by hand

That's funny!
I did all my obscenities, especially my primer follies on my good old Pro 1000. It was the hardest press I ever had to use and it is retired to de-priming duties, for my own safety! I never got along with that thing. My Hornady progressive put all the fun back in to reloading for me. So much easier to run.

 

[Texas10mm]

I must be doing something wrong or haven’t been reloading long enough. But after about 5 or 6 years reloading, I have yet to damage my fingers or do any of the rest of this stuff. Maybe I’m just loading slower than you guys.

But I’m also a surgeon so am pretty careful about where I place my hands. I don’t need to stick a decapper into a finger.

It only hurts for about a week.

 

[The Bushmaster]

Texas10mm
I bet you look real cute in shorts and that apron.

You guys are helping run down my check list. I've been reloading for 35 years.

Yup, done that.
That too.
Yup.
And that too.

 

[Texas10mm]

Texas10mm
I bet you look real cute in shorts and that apron.

You guys are helping run down my check list. I've been reloading for 35 years.

Yup, done that.
That too.
Yup.
And that too.

You want pics?

 

[Walkalong]

Please no.

 

[The Bushmaster]

No...Not really....

 

[luzyfuerza]

Ah, why not? That apron looks like a great piece of safety gear!

 

[rfwobbly]

Just racing through my reloading and oops, didn't get that bullet seated with the left hand before the right hand pulled the handle.

This is one time when the left hand needs to know what the right hand is doing !

 

[Jesse Heywood]

And all this time I thought primers going in sideways and upside down, no primer, finger (not bullet) in the case, Alox in the tumbler, primers spilled, powder in the carpet were all part of reloading. Sounds like some of y'all must be missing out.

 

[Mn Fats]

Better see if it will feed before shelfing it.

 

[mstreddy]

Better see if it will feed before shelfing it.

Run it through the LEE FCD - that'll FIX it!