You know you're a boolit caster and reloader when......

[osteodoc08]

Your wife finds brass in the oven (a single 45 acp brass in the bottom)

You find lead splatterings in the dryer lint trap

You here clanging around the dryer only to discover a few cast boolits in a jean pocket

All three happened tonight. LOL

[Sgtonory]

Lol I always find fired boolits from the backstop in my pockets.

[Garyshome]

Never happened yet, but maybe tomorrow!

[Gtek]

How is your bathroom library?

[Nicholas]

Do you never pass up a WW on the ground?

[GRUMPA]

Your wife grabs a couple of YOUR ingots to hold the &%$## door open.

[enfieldphile]

When you have your wife bring homemade cookies to the boys @ the tire warehouse in exchange for WW's!

[Mk42gunner]

I admit it, I have circled the block to pick up a lonely wheel weight before.

Robert

[kawasakifreak77]

You get excited when your foreman asks where he might get rid of some lead pipe at... :D

[mdi]

Well, I've been known to walk the curb looking for wheel weights...

[jonk]

Ok, I bite. Why is the dryer lint trap got splattered lead in it? It don't get hot enough to melt lead in a dryer.

[jakec]

man i have those little lead splatters all over my house from falling off me! my old lady hates it.

[jakec]

Ok, I bite. Why is the dryer lint trap got splattered lead in it? It don't get hot enough to melt lead in a dryer.

it splatters on your clothes then comes off in the dryer. or the washer. or it stays and comes off later.

[Shiloh]

The bride has a can on the shelf above the washer. Brass, cast boolits, and unique, interesting forms of range scrap all go into this can.

An ammo can 1/2 full of .38 wadcutters gets used to hold the basement dorr open for spring airing of the house.

Shiloh

[osteodoc08]

it splatters on your clothes then comes off in the dryer. or the washer. or it stays and comes off later.

This here

[EMC45]

Wife finds steel plate splatters from range trips in the kid's pockets. The boy's (6 and 8 YO) were brass scrounging and picking up all the little lead "coins" off the ground in from of the 2/3 IPSC target. Funny was she knew right off what they were.

[Pb2au]

When your house cat wanders into the living room with a 45 Colt case in its mouth, drops in front of you, and then demands that you throw it for him.

[gwpercle]

You go to the mall, while the wife shops you wander around the parking lot looking for wheel-weights.
You have been known to dash out into traffic to snatch a wheel-weight off the ground.
You have a giant wheel-weight, from a 16 wheeler tire, mounted on a board with the date and weight, on your wall.
You pay the kids a penny apiece for boxer primed range brass and take them for ice-cream, after an afternoon at the range.
You admit to have done all of the above.

[bruce381]

I admit it, I have circled the block to pick up a lonely wheel weight before.

Robert

I stop traffic to get them

[bruce381]

""You have a giant wheel-weight, from a 16 wheeler tire, mounted on a board with the date and weight, on your wall.""

Great idea

[newcastter]

Your wife finds brass in the oven (a single 45 acp brass in the bottom)

You find lead splatterings in the dryer lint trap

You here clanging around the dryer only to discover a few cast boolits in a jean pocket

All three happened tonight. LOL

I think you just described a jack ***.

[Stonecrusher]

When your wife has to remove the iron from your lube-sizer on wash day.

[jonp]

You ask your daughter to bat her eyelashes in the motorpool and stop at tire places in shorts and halter on the way home on leave

[ofreen]

When you are shooting a semi-auto and you are more concerned about where your brass lands than where the bullet hits.

[cdngunner]

Your kids get tired of you talking about lead

[Trickrick]

When you are shooting a semi-auto and you are more concerned about where your brass lands than where the bullet hits.
I realized just the other day at the range that this is me!

[RobS]

When you ask your wife if she's going to use that old kitchen spoon, old tupperware, old pot/pan/tray or ask where's the foil, possibly the wax paper. Also, sorry honey I didn't mean to stink the house up, that is melted beeswax, yes I used your kitchen towel and yes I will get out of your kitchen and stop using your cooking things.

Of course there is the justification of needs that a person goes though; well I don't really need a new holster, new gun, more brass, try this new powder, get another mold, buy more primers etc. etc. etc. but yet maybe I do because you never know or.............................................

It's a struggle!!! But we are all here as a large welcoming support group.:grin:

[TXGunNut]

You have a giant wheel-weight, from a 16 wheeler tire, mounted on a board with the date and weight, on your wall.-gwpercle

Is that a DIY mount or did you take it to the taxidermist?

[captaint]

When you're shopping with the wife, walking through the store and you say "hey babe, look" and she immediately says "don't tell me, something you can use for boolits"....

[Bullshop Junior]

You know you are a reloader when you shoot yourself and stick the empty in your pocket....

[osteodoc08]

I think you just described a jack ***.

Really? Why's that?

[osteodoc08]

Did anyone ever make BSJ the Boot Award?

[SoCalDeere]

You have a coffee can of trashed scrap brass your saveing for recycleing or you spend more than 5 min. Trying to seperate a 40 cal stuck in a 45ACP case

[Bullshop]

You know you are a reloader when you shoot yourself and stick the empty in your pocket....
Now that's funny!!!
And bring a metal detector back to the spot to recover the boolit, HA HA HA !!!

[Springfield]

Your dog has an empty primer stuck on her tooth, and you have to pop it off.

[Fyodor]

You got a cat and a dispenser for cat food... but it's always filled with boolits for quicker access on the press, and your cat still is hungry.

[truckerdave397]

You use a fork truck to move your reloading supplies in your pole barn.

[xacex]

You can't drive by a dirt berm in the woods without getting out and walking in circles looking at the ground and berm for empties, and bullets.

[mold maker]

You mean everybody doesn't do those things? I thought it was required.

[Bullshop Junior]

Now that's funny!!!
And bring a metal detector back to the spot to recover the boolit, HA HA HA !!!

Already on the to do list. Just havnt had time to go out and do it yet. The case got threw back into the bin to get reloaded and has probably been fired five or six now times now.

[Whitespider]

When, after a day shooting, your wife walks up and yanks the TV remote from your hand, turns the volume way down, yanks one of the plugs from your ears, throws the remote in your crotch... and storms away without saying a word.

[jimb16]

When you have a two wheeled dolly dedicated to hauling more 5 gallon buckets of wheel weights into the garage that your car used to fit into.

[Satokad]

When you are shooting a semi-auto and you are more concerned about where your brass lands than where the bullet hits.

This!

[threewheels]

the Wife cleans the car and claims that every cup holder and storage compartment contains brass and then says its not even in calibers that you shoot lol . The reply is that it's for my bud when I see him because he shoots that cal. got to think of your bud when picking up brass because he's going to do it for you.

[osteodoc08]

You find a small empty basket that you empty 2 magazines worth of loaded ammo into because its your defensive ammo (cause youre going shooting) to return later to find baby clothes piled on top of it and the wife didnt even notice the ammo in the bottom.

[Landshark9025]

You have to travel overseas on business and the guy you are going with says "I just looked up the laws in "x" country. I know you sometimes have random bullets and things in your pockets. They can hold people indefinitely for that there. Just looking out for you.

[farmerjim]

you build a berm in your back field and invite everyone to use it so that you can mine it later.

[Bullshop Junior]

How about sitting on a hospital bed watching the heart minister and trying to see if you can actually slow down your heart beat because you read in some shooting book that you should slow your breathing and heart rate and shoot between heart beats?

[sasquatch76]

You buy factory ammo, and are more excited from recovering the brass than shooting it.

Finding a wheel weight in the WalMart parking lot totally makes your day.

Being a fisherman and boolit caster causes constant personal conflict on what to do with that tackle box full of big lead sinkers.

A trip to the junk yard to get a small car part turns into you carrying 50+ lbs of wheel weights to your truck, completely forgetting the part you actually came for.

[fixit]

you have 'disagreements' with your wife, because "we bought this house so you could have a space to work on cars in", but it's all taken up with casting, bow building, scrapping, reloading, and a half dozen other things that I can't think of right now!

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

You know you're a boolit caster and reloader when...

you "window shop" for ammunition at every convenience, BUT rarely ever buy any.

[Smoke4320]

when you pull into the Walmart parking lot... full of cars and think "all those weights going to waste "

[Miller]

your cat finds empty brass regularly and bats it around like a toy.

[threewheels]

your cat finds empty brass regularly and bats it around like a toy.

My cat steals it off the reloading bench so much fun to step on in the middle of the night

[BNE]

do you never pass up a ww on the ground?

never !

[BNE]

You find yourself in the kitchen section of Wal-Mart drooling over small loaf pans. Great ingot molds.

[FLYCUTTER]

can't get to the range today because you have to melt down 600 lbs. of scrap lead.
can't go to the range tomorrow because you have to cast some of your new metal.
Finally get to the range and start mining lead and grazing brass because the rifle and pistol clubs are done shooting for the day and left a gold mine .

[**oneshot**]

You know it happens when you can't stand to see a coffee can thrown to the recycler.

[retread]

You have forgotten what the original use for solder was.

[500MAG]

You've purchased moulds for calibers you don't even own yet.

[Djones]

When you are not "allowed" to wear cargo shorts to the gun range.

I can't help but fill them up with range scrap. Those nasty little copper jackets always seem to hitch a ride in the washing machine.

[Djones]

You've purchased moulds for calibers you don't even own yet.

I told my wife, "at least I haven't done that".

She proceeds to remind my last fall when I bought a mold for which I didn't own a firearm in that caliber! I must have the fever pretty bad if I supress the indulgences!

[Bzcraig]

Your wife grabs a couple of YOUR ingots to hold the &%$## door open.

At least she used em!

[jabo52521]

When you are shooting a semi-auto and you are more concerned about where your brass lands than where the bullet hits.
That's me!!

[paul edward]

Where tire shops are closed on Sundays, you can search their parking lot for wheel weights.

[badbob454]

when your 2 car gatage is full of 1 mechanics tool box and casting /reloading stuff... now FULL i say....

[Pinsnscrews]

yes I used your kitchen towel and yes I will get out of your kitchen and stop using your cooking things.


MY kitchen, not hers ;-) I don't ask for this old item, I just stick it in the corner with the rest waiting to go out into the Garage.

[CGT80]

You know when you are a caster when you dig the lead wheel weights out of the tar slurry that was dumped at the end of your uncle's driveway, at his auto shop. A random piece of steel out of the dirt was able to dig three weights up. I contemplated on whether it was worth looking for a screwdriver to dig out the two battery cable ends. No, he doesn't have any old (new) wheel weights. I already saw those when I went in the supply room to get bolts for my transmission when we were reinstalling it. They haven't done tires for many years. Needless to say, that 60 pounds of new weights is now ingotized.

You just might be a caster (and really be a bit twisted) if you already have some of the best lube made loaded up in your LAM I, and am happy with it, but are still considering getting into powder coating. Cred works great, but any lube leaves residue in the workings of a gun. I have 3k factory 155 lswc bullets for my 40 pistol. I think they are alloyed with diamonds and have hard tar for lube, but I am already preparing to buy a mold for 40, and am considering PC for it. I still need to shoot my test boolits from another member here.

Last trip to the range, I was the last one out and started to pick lead in the dark, on the pistol berm. My coffee can was 25 yards away, so I filled up my right cargo pocket. By time I couldn't see anymore, I could hardly hold my shorts up.

Sometimes I think about going to the range just to pick lead.

I spend more time picking lead and brass than I do shooting.

When you think an AR rifle in 9mm would be fun and cheap to load for, but then you realize you can shoot 30 carbine, 30-30, or 30-06 for the same money as loading 9mm with factory made moly coated lead bullets.

You know your a realoader when someone complains about shooting up 9mm and 223 and the money it costs them, and then you tell them you didn't spend much on ammo for the day, after shooting a few hundred rounds of 30 cal rifle, 40 cal pistol, 45 colt and 460 mag pistol ammo.

You know your a caster when you could tell a fellow competitor that you beat them at lever action rifle while using their own bullets. What I did tell him was that I got my lead from that berm out there, when he asked what my source was. After I picked up targets, I grabbed a can and started picking lead. He said, "you weren't kidding." They picked up a few pieces but said they could hardly spot the bullets vs. rocks. I pick them out right away and can tell by feel and weight, as well as shape. Sometimes I think I can tell by smell :kidding:

[500MAG]

I told my wife, "at least I haven't done that".

She proceeds to remind my last fall when I bought a mold for which I didn't own a firearm in that caliber! I must have the fever pretty bad if I supress the indulgences!

Yeah, I have a bunch of brass and die sets ready to go for a couple of calibers I'm waiting to get the gun for also.

[Joe504]

You can divide 7000 by almost any number from 55 to 500 easily

[popper]

You want lead for birthday, fathers day, Christmas. Not anniversary!!

[Gunslinger1911]

I carry my current "nicest" cast boolet in my pocket. Every day, part of my daily load-out. Pants don't feel right without it.

[spfd1903]

A friend at the power plant I work at calls me at 4 pm..."I hear you are always looking for Lead. There are four 70# sheets of Lead that are scrap. If you can get them out of my building within the hour, they are yours. " I could hardly think of the logistics necessary to get them to the car, plus at 65, I had not been doing a lot of weight lifting. Heard myself saying..."you bet, I'll be there in 10 minutes".

[David2011]

How about sitting on a hospital bed watching the heart minister and trying to see if you can actually slow down your heart beat because you read in some shooting book that you should slow your breathing and heart rate and shoot between heart beats?

Got it down to 59 beats per minute doing just exactly that.

or,

A ton of scrap wheelweights is a good start.

David

[Texantothecore]

You've purchased moulds for calibers you don't even own yet.

Recently I did just that. I also bought 55 lbs of lead for the gun I do not own.

[Joe88XJ]

When your house cat wanders into the living room with a 45 Colt case in its mouth, drops in front of you, and then demands that you throw it for him.
I cant believe my cat hasnt done this yet! I would LMAO if she did....she follows me into the basement and drops her mouse at my feet when I am working at my reloading bench.

[ofreen]

You can divide 7000 by almost any number from 55 to 500 easily

Yep, that's the truth.

[Eutectic]

You build a propane furnace that allows you to ladle cast in January at 20 degrees below zero!

Eutectic

[NoAngel]

When you cast and load for a cartridge you don't even have a gun for simply because...Some day I might!

[osteodoc08]

This thread is timeless. Love it. I guess I'm not as afflicted as others so I definitely have room for growth.

[retread]

I'm doomed. Have only been casting the last 4 years and am guilty of most if not all of the above.:killingpc

[ravelode]

Where tire shops are closed on Sundays, you can search their parking lot for wheel weights.
Ditto, also every time i'm there for tire work, service, etc. I wander the parking lot and adjacent street looking for lead rather than sit in the waiting area. I always come home with some WW.:bigsmyl2:

[butch2570]

When you are going to take a tour of the U.S. Capital and while standing in a slow moving line to go through the metal detectors ,you get your personal effects out of your pocket and discover a live round has somehow made the trip also, and then quickly jump out of line to make other arrangements..:( So i've heard anyways .:mrgreen:

[Rooster]

Clandestine meetings in the parking lot to "get the goods". ;)