If you ever move...

[44Blam]

You will find out exactly HOW much reloading stuff you have. And you will keep finding that random boolit that got loose in whatever process you were working on and rolled over to some odd corner.

And I have found 4 large pistol primers. I think this was from when I broke my primer seater and was "making do" with the broken one until I was able to get new ones.

I also keep finding random brass - these were the problem children that I was gonna deal with. Eg 40 S&W with crimped primer pockets, 357 sig mistaken for 40 S&W, 44 specials and those pesky Hornady 45-70 cases that are trimmed too short...

[nhyrum]

Yep, been there, done that. Found all the spent primers that didn't always make it in the catch too. But yep, you find out exactly how much reloading sh..... tuff you have. Especially how much lead...

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[Winger Ed.]

Random brass? HA! I think I can beat that.


Years ago, I'd gotten a 25cents a pound deal on at least 250 pounds of shot, some in bags, some in plastic milk cartons.
Most of it was stacked/vanished into the back far reaches on the shelf under my work bench.

A few years ago, I kept hearing a soft 'tinkling' noise in the shop, and couldn't figure out what it was.
After a few months, it quit, and I forgot about it.

Four years ago, we moved.
The shop looked like what you'd see on that hoarders show.
As I cleaned, sorted, boxed up, etc. from the top down, I came across 4-5 split/empty plastic milk cartons on the shelf.

No big deal. When I got past the shelf, and started pulling stuff out that was under the bench on the floor----
I saw about 80-90 pounds of shot spread out on the floor at the back.

Then I realized what that tinkle noise was I'd been hearing.

[megasupermagnum]

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I moved not long ago. I was reading through the shotgun section here, and thinking how I always wanted an H&R Buck 162, a special model smooth bore slug gun with a peep sight. As I was putting away some guns from a recent hunting trip I noticed one in the back of the safe that I thought was one of my H&R Tracker II's, but they couldn't be, I just put them back. Everything is in their own gun sock by the way, so it isn't like I can clearly see what is what. I pull it out, and what is it? An H&R Buck 162 I had bought a couple months before I moved. I've never even shot it, and forgot I had it.

[44Blam]

Random brass? HA! I think I can beat that.


Years ago, I'd gotten a 25cents a pound deal on at least 250 pounds of shot, some in bags, some in plastic milk cartons.
Most of it was stacked/vanished into the back far reaches on the shelf under my work bench.

A few years ago, I kept hearing a soft 'tinkling' noise in the shop, and couldn't figure out what it was.
After a few months, it quit, and I forgot about it.

Four years ago, we moved.
The shop looked like what you'd see on that hoarders show.
As I cleaned, sorted, boxed up, etc. from the top down, I came across 4-5 split/empty plastic milk cartons on the shelf.

No big deal. When I got past the shelf, and started pulling stuff out that was under the bench on the floor----
I saw about 80-90 pounds of shot spread out on the floor at the back.

Then I realized what that tinkle noise was I'd been hearing.

Oh man, 90 lbs of shot all over the floor... Yikes!

[Winger Ed.]

Oh man, 90 lbs of shot all over the floor... Yikes!

I was doing a lot of the moving myself in stages, and luckily, I hadn't taken the big-bad boy shop vac to the new house.

[lancem]

Worse yet. I'm finally moving from my "garage" to my reloading room in the house, some how I have lost a 300 BO seating die and a 22-250 sizing die. I've looked every where and they are not there, how do you loose dies?? I'm sure they will show up but in the mean time I've ordered more...

[Winger Ed.]

I'm sure they will show up but in the mean time I've ordered more...

There was a thread awhile back about this very thing.

What's happened to me a few times is I find the lost item about a day before the little brown truck pulls up and delivers a new one.

I still have a .429 mold that will stay lost forever.
I don't think I'll get another .44Mag, so I won't need to buy a new mold for one.
So,,, my old mold has no reason to come out of hiding.

[GregLaROCHE]

I didn’t move, but had to clear out my reloading area to have a cement pad poured. There was so much stuff. I realized how Not easy it was to move around all the lead I have accumulated, both ingots and unused cast boolits. I hope to stay put for the rest of my life now.

[Ithaca Gunner]

I don't even want to think about it! It would take me months-years to sort things out. Worse yet, if I were called by the Lord what a time my wife and brother would have with the stuff!

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Yes, if I passed my wife would have a pile of gun stuff to deal with. I should winnow it down and organize it better. When us "boomers" start to go there will be a huge glut of used guns and reloading/casting stuff and few wanting it

[Land Owner]

Oh man, 90 lbs of shot all over the floor... Yikes!

The mere thought of separating #9 shot from #8, #7-1/2, #6, #4, etc. into 25-pound piles (original weight per bag of shot) is mind numbing!



I was GIVEN nearly 900#'s of lead in 50# ingots (DOT Intrastate transportation sleeves for nuclear pharmaceuticals). Each ingot is in its own steel ammo can. The "bonus" for hauling it all away was an additional 65 steel ammo cans.

When I moved my reloading components from one house to another, and ground floor to 2nd floor (the lead stayed in the garage), the ammo cans became my individual "suitcases", each loaded and weighing not more than 60 pounds. At about 60 pounds each, one in each hand for stability, an ammo can handle will cut into the palm of your ungloved hand after about 20 hauls up the stairs. Don't ask me how I know...

[Battis]

Last summer we had to clean out "the estate" of a deceased family member. He was a competitive skeet shooter (and hunter), and a reloader from way back. Lead bars, bags of shot, unused primers, used shotgun hulls, lots of loaded ammo (mostly shotgun), cleaning supplies, 3 presses (.410, 28 ga, 20/12 ga) gun safe, gun parts, guns - lots of guns (rifles and handguns). We found an antique revolver wrapped up in a rag. You want it, take it. I did pay for the .410 press and a bunch of guns (token payment was all that was required). I did alright.

[Finster101]

"I saw about 80-90 pounds of shot spread out on the floor at the back."





Lucky you didn't look like Wile E. Coyote and a box of ACME ball bearings.

[sharps4590]

Moving....the most hateful chore ever devised by the mind of man. When we moved into our "new" house we built 17 years ago that is it. Next move is the cemetery or the nursing home.

[Finster101]

Moving....the most hateful chore ever devised by the mind of man. When we moved into our "new" house we built 17 years ago that is it. Next move is the cemetery or the nursing home.

We lived in the same house for 23 years and then moved 6 years ago. I'm still finding things I forgot I had.

[dverna]

My last move was 9 years ago. I had a long bed F350 diesel dually four door. IIRC, for the reloading equipment, ammunition, components and guns alone; 6 full loads with stuff packed in the rear seating area and the bed stacked . There is still stuff I cannot find that I know I have.

[Joe504]

We have to much stuff guys.

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[Cosmic_Charlie]

I should start getting tables at gunshows and selling off the items that are just collecting dust. I have done it before and it seems to work if you price things right. I have acquaintances who have large collections of motorcycles and are getting too old to ride. Gun enthusiasts are not the only ones with piles of hobby stuff.

[BNE]

I hope to start building in the next two years. I already have a shed with my tractor in it at the property. My PLAN is to slowly move my lead collection before I move. Plans are easy. Execution may be difficult!