Author Topic: Top 10 reasons to know you are a reloader... (Read 787 times)

Questor · « **on:** October 21, 2004, 12:50:29 PM »

Top 10 Reasons to Know You're a Reloader
1. You carry a portable reloading kit in the passenger seat and floorboard of your truck.
2. You wear specific hats to silhouette matches, bullseye matches, duck hunts, prairie dog hunts, deer hunts, elk hunts, gun shows, and SCI conventions.
3. You use Hoppes #9 as cologne.
4. You've never thrown away an empty cartridge case.
5. You can remember the powder, bullet weight, charge weight, primer, overall length, velocity, and trajectory to 500 yards for a .22 wildcat you owned 30 years ago, but you cannot recall your wifes birthday.
6. You have used old benchrest targets as toilet paper.
7. You have driven off the road while looking up load data.
8. You have borrowed broken clay pigeons from your trap club to fill potholes in your driveway.
9. You have scratched the bluing on a favorite gun and cried like a baby.
10. You acquired all of your allen wrenches from scope ring and reloading die manufacturers.

SLAVAGE · « **Reply #1 on:** October 21, 2004, 05:18:36 PM »

baaaaaaaaaaaaahahhaa
hey do you sell that shirt in an extra large lol
thats not a bad idea lol would sell good at the gun shows

Robert · « **Reply #2 on:** October 21, 2004, 05:43:44 PM »

Sad but true.

Badnews Bob · « **Reply #3 on:** October 21, 2004, 09:34:39 PM »

Yea but all 500 of my allen wrenchs and I only think I have about three sizes. :roll:

skb2706 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 22, 2004, 03:37:18 AM »

you forgot number
11. You find yourself answering questions on reloading forums.
12. You take your 8 year old son to a gun show and he knows more about loading components and equipment than the guy selling the stuff.
13. You buys loading dies for those pesky calibers you may own someday.

skb2706 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 22, 2004, 03:39:52 AM »

or.........
14. Even while hunting big game you still remember to catch the brass after that fateful shot......

onesonek · « **Reply #6 on:** October 22, 2004, 05:03:20 AM »

Sorry, but the #1 reason is, so I can go into my little reloading room, in my own little world, Away from the Wife :lol:

SLAVAGE · « **Reply #7 on:** October 22, 2004, 06:21:39 AM »

Quote from: skb2706

or.........
14. Even while hunting big game you still remember to catch the brass after that fateful shot......

im ashamed of admiting it but i shot a doe last year an spent all most an half of an hour looken for were the 243 case was lmmfao

skb2706 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 22, 2004, 06:40:02 AM »

me too..........shot a doe and went back the next day just to find the brass as it had fallen out of my pocket.

Selmer · « **Reply #9 on:** October 22, 2004, 07:24:25 AM »

I'd like to agree with onesonek. #1 is my reloading room is a place of solitude, my wife knows nothing about it, unfortunately doesn't want to know anything about it, can't correct me, and my 17 month old daughter LOVES to sit on the counter adjoining my bench and practice putting a 12 gauge shotgun hull on the ram of my Rockchucker press and run it up through the hole for the dies, she can do it for hours and squeal with delight every time she gets it right! My daughter also adores when I empty the case polisher and there are all of these shiny brass things that tinkle when she pushes them around, and all of my game calls fascinate her, she loves my squirrel bellows call cause she can shake it and sound like a chattering squirrel. Hmm, now that I think about it, maybe my reloading room is #1 cause it's where Grace is learning to love hunting things...she's doomed to hunt! And we have our second on the way on April 1st, we find out what it is on Tuesday, we're both hoping for a boy, but just pray it's healthy, girls can hunt too!
Selmer

onesonek · « **Reply #10 on:** October 22, 2004, 08:10:44 AM »

Thumbs-up Selmer, Congrats,
BTW, don't put alot of stock in ultrasounds, for April 1st babies :wink:

warf73 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 24, 2004, 07:52:34 PM »

Grats on the baby

3. You use Hoppes #9 as cologne

Sorry guys but what are you using it for? It's a cologne that has other uses also :-D

Jack Crevalle · « **Reply #12 on:** October 25, 2004, 06:25:31 AM »

11. Because when I buy factory ammo I feel like an adulturer.

Norwester · « **Reply #13 on:** October 25, 2004, 07:52:59 AM »

You find yourself picking up non-reloading friends brass,even though you don't have anything in that caliber. You might someday and since you already have the brass...

Rmouleart · « **Reply #14 on:** October 25, 2004, 08:35:53 AM »

Hey thats scary LOL, very close, off on a few

Aim small hit small. RAMbo.

Rmouleart · « **Reply #15 on:** October 25, 2004, 08:41:25 AM »

Hey thats scary LOL, very close, off on a few

Aim small hit small. RAMbo.

Patriot_1776 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 25, 2004, 08:47:14 AM »

Here's a few more:

#15. Your reloading press is your favorite soda can crusher.

#16. You use boxes of bullets for paperweights.

#17. Your first squib load resulting in a lodged bullet causes a mid-life crisis.

# 18. You use wadcutters when you need a hole puncher.

Just for laughs.

Patriot