View Full Version : How many yrs. of experience is here?
I can't count the times I've seen someone post about how much knowledge and experience there is on this forum. I got to wonderin' the other day how that could be determined. Well, I've come up with another one of my wild, hair-brained ideas.
I'm gonna start by simply posting how many years I've been at this casting and loading stuff. The next guy posts his number of years, adds it to mine and shows the total. The next guy takes the second guy's total, does the same thing and so on. I'd be real curious to see where this goes.
Nothin' wrong with addin' comments, that would only serve to make the thread a bit more interesting in my opinion. Y'all game to try this? Your figure should show years of experience in casting, loading, swaging, etc.. I DID NOT include my years of shooting, just years in casting and loading.
EXAMPLE:
Jim- 30
second poster- 25
30 + 25 = 55
Third poster- 35
55 + 35 = 90
Clear as mud?
Here's my entry- 30 YEARS
bearcove
08-25-2012, 10:16 AM
I might be dating myself, but 37 yrs
30+37=67
500MAG
08-25-2012, 10:19 AM
28 years.
67+28=95
Castingfor 48 years - but knowing what I'm doing, casting, only 4 - so 67+4=71
Reloading - 48+67=115
375RUGER
08-25-2012, 10:21 AM
143+19= 162
OK I think I got it back on track
Careful, guys. Let's keep this simple so it doesn't get confusing and go askew. Looks to me like we're gonna go way past a millenia before this is done.
waksupi
08-25-2012, 10:31 AM
We had a thread on this a few years ago, the numbers were getting astronomical, with even a very small percentage of total members adding in the years. I bet it is easily over 100,000 years now.
We had a thread on this a few years ago, the numbers were getting astronomical, with even a very small percentage of total members adding in the years. I bet it is easily over 100,000 years now.
Ric, I wasn't aware of that. Had I known, I would have tried to dig it up and just read it. If you think this is just taking up band width uselessly, by all means, delete it.
500MAG
08-25-2012, 10:36 AM
Keep it. Like I said, I was loadin 28 years before I even found this site. Never went to the internet, all by the book. I use to spend all my time loadin, now I spend all my time on this site and don't have time to load.
ph4570
08-25-2012, 10:38 AM
162 + 48 = 210
waksupi
08-25-2012, 10:43 AM
Ric, I wasn't aware of that. Had I known, I would have tried to dig it up and just read it. If you think this is just taking up band width uselessly, by all means, delete it.
Heck no, Jim, lots of new folks here to add up. I wouldn't even know where to start looking for the other one. I was just mentioning it in passing.
bob208
08-25-2012, 10:51 AM
i did it backwards. a friend of mine had a reloading out fit. i did not. but when i bought my first pistol i got a mold for it too. so i cast he reloaded.
i was 21 then am 62 now. that is 41 years.
where has the time gone????
210+41(bob208)=251
+my21=272
wallenba
08-25-2012, 11:14 AM
Hmmm...37 loading, only 5 casting. Shooting since....well, I can't remember that far back.
429421Cowboy
08-25-2012, 11:18 AM
Started loading all by myself on my own press when i turned 17 so that is just under 3 years:oops: So 272+2=274
runfiverun
08-25-2012, 11:31 AM
i learned to cast [learned from a neighbor] before i learned [was allowed] to reload.
i could sort/pick-up empty's/shoot,and box ammo, but not load it.
so 38 more.
=312
dragonrider
08-25-2012, 11:42 AM
It been about 25 years so 312=25=337
**oneshot**
08-25-2012, 12:04 PM
337 + 28 = 365
28 years of reloading, casting for the last 15, shooting for 38yrs, understanding my limitations PRICELESS.
sorry had to throw that in.
quilbilly
08-25-2012, 12:18 PM
45 of reloading including 30 of casting here
stubshaft
08-25-2012, 12:22 PM
365+45(quilbilly)+47=457
John in WI
08-25-2012, 12:25 PM
Since about May.
A whopping 0.25 years
162.25 years!
WILCO
08-25-2012, 12:37 PM
I started reloading in 1995 and picked up on casting boolits in 2007......
WILCO
08-25-2012, 12:47 PM
10 years 457+10=467
Plus my 17 = 484 total.....
swheeler
08-25-2012, 12:51 PM
484+48(1964)=532
burntpowder
08-25-2012, 01:20 PM
started reloading shotgun shells 1961, started reloading rifle and pistol along with casting 1965.
swheeler
08-25-2012, 02:05 PM
bp; you forgot total 532+51=583
Adam10mm
08-25-2012, 02:51 PM
Reloading: 6
Casting: 5
thebigmac
08-25-2012, 03:07 PM
532+37=569
Started loading in 1960and casting 1962
so 569+50 =619
terry
big dale
08-25-2012, 04:21 PM
I added casting to the reloading 46 years ago so 619+46=665.
Big Dale
Larry Gibson
08-25-2012, 04:30 PM
Been reloading cast since I was 14 years old for the 30-30. 665 + 51 = 716.
Larry Gibson
Kraschenbirn
08-25-2012, 04:39 PM
Began reloading in the late '50s and cast my first .58 cal. Minie ball in 1973...716+39=754
Bill
tchepone
08-25-2012, 04:44 PM
How many yrs. of experience is here?
Handloading 1965-2012=47
Casting 1967-2012=45
754+47=801
fishhawk
08-25-2012, 04:50 PM
here the original thread http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=14017 we were over 6500 years at the last time here.
PS Paul
08-25-2012, 05:21 PM
801 + 25 years fer me = 826 Years. THAT was easy math!!!
tryNto
08-25-2012, 05:24 PM
826 + 16 = 842 years
Aunegl
08-25-2012, 07:16 PM
842 + 31 = 873 years
Blacksmith
08-25-2012, 07:26 PM
873+36=909 years
Not two pages and we've almost broken a millenia. This is crazy.
fishhawk
08-25-2012, 07:50 PM
just look what we had befor jim over 6500 years
camaro1st
08-25-2012, 07:50 PM
909+5=914
just look what we had befor jim over 6500 years
I know it! Can you imagine trying to document all this experience and put it in a book? I don't think that would be possible!
Calamity Jake
08-25-2012, 08:05 PM
914 + 30= 944
handyman25
08-25-2012, 08:11 PM
944+53=997
yes older than dirt.
mold maker
08-25-2012, 08:16 PM
I started 58 years ago. Let's say I struggled for 52, and then found new ways to do everything.
So 944 + 58 = 1002
I started 58 years ago. Let's say I struggled for 52, and then found new ways to do everything.
So 944 + 58 = 1002
45 responses and we broke a grand. I figured we would break a grand, but I never had any idea it would happen so quickly.
Thanks for all the participation, fellas!
waksupi
08-25-2012, 08:36 PM
1002 + 40 = 1042
largom
08-25-2012, 08:45 PM
1042 + 60= 1102
Larry
nodda duma
08-25-2012, 08:52 PM
1102 + 5 = 1107
-Jason
reg293
08-25-2012, 09:40 PM
1107 + 52 = 1159
reg
starreloader
08-25-2012, 10:24 PM
May as well put me in, started loading in '68 and casting in 1970 and still at it. I'll split the time and go for 42 years
1159 + 42 = 1201
chboats
08-25-2012, 11:52 PM
Started casting in 1980 32 years 1201 + 32 + 1233
pmeisel
08-26-2012, 09:32 AM
1233 + 25 = 1258
JonB_in_Glencoe
08-26-2012, 10:05 AM
It seems that casting while being a daily visitor/member here would be more like dogs years.
cause my 2 years here seem like 14 ;)
been reloading for a decade.
but with all that said... 1258 + 2 = 1260
fecmech
08-26-2012, 10:08 AM
Started loading in 1966 but that was mainly shotgun and casting around 1970 so I'll add 42. So 1258+42=1300 Whoops type too slow. 1260+42 1302
TCLouis
08-26-2012, 10:10 AM
Started shooting and casting 429215s in 66 for my old Flat Top 44 Maggie.
Let's do the math
1260 + 46 = 1306
gmsharps
08-26-2012, 10:26 AM
I was introduced to reloading and casting in 66 so 1306+46=1352
gmsharps
clintsfolly
08-26-2012, 10:59 AM
started in 1976 so 1356+36=1392 Clint
Grandpas50AE
08-26-2012, 11:33 AM
Started casting in 1973, so:
1392 + 40 = 1432
stubck
08-26-2012, 11:46 AM
32 years --1464 Cast in the dark until I found this place, then thr lights came on.
Stubck
armexman
08-26-2012, 11:53 AM
1464+25=1489
sundog
08-26-2012, 12:09 PM
Had to go back and check if I had already responded, as there are several threads floating around similar. Nope.
I started casting and loading about the same time, ~1972, and added shotgun about 4-5 years later. Always learning something new, and always something new or different with which to experiment.
1489 + 40 = 1529
rockrat
08-26-2012, 12:36 PM
Started about 1970 with the little lead soldier melter I had and a 452460 mould, but didn't really get into it till around 1973 when I bought my Saeco furnace(still use it).
1529 + 42= 1571
geargnasher
08-26-2012, 02:46 PM
I went back and re-added everything, since a couple of members mis-added and some were missed. I come up with 1,757 years including Rockrat. The first page of 40 posts made 1,004years, so Jim, it DID make 1,000 on the first page.
Anywhoo, 1,757 + 20 + 1,777 years.
Gear
Thanks for helpin' out, Gear! You're a team player!
bobthenailer
08-26-2012, 03:12 PM
1,777 + my 45 years = 1,822
Ed Barrett
08-26-2012, 06:22 PM
First time casting was 1953 so I guess that's about 58 years. For a DCM 30-40 Krag. A WWI Vet Showed me how.
1865 + 48 = 1913
krag35
08-26-2012, 06:34 PM
I started casting for a little 31 cal colt in Junior high school
1913 + 35 = 1948
Bullet Caster
08-26-2012, 07:23 PM
Started reloading and casting last year, so 1948 + 1 = 1949. BC
Cactus Farmer
08-26-2012, 07:29 PM
1949 was a good year, plus my 53 years makes 2002.
waksupi
08-27-2012, 01:13 AM
Averaging the numbers so far, and multiplying by the amount of members, we should end up around 684,823 years of experience.
sav300
08-27-2012, 06:46 AM
40 for me =2042
MBTcustom
08-27-2012, 06:57 AM
17 for me =2059
Averaging the numbers so far, and multiplying by the amount of members, we should end up around 684,823 years of experience.
According to the 'What's goin' on?' section, Most users ever online was 786, 11-09-2011 at 12:40 PM.
I'd be amazed if we got half of that in responses. There's no tellin' how many thousand members who's names are on the records, but no longer participate.
32ideal
08-27-2012, 08:09 AM
55 + 2073 = 2128
Started casting 50cal round balls in 1957 for a 28ga / 52cal single shot rifle/shotgun when I was twelve under direction of my grandfather, also sorted reclaimed shot for him and used it in the same rifle/shotgun, plus melted the deformed shot for the 50cal balls, he got to use the fancy Herters shotshell loader with the good reclaimed shot.
32ideal
Able 5
08-27-2012, 08:29 AM
2128+23= 2151
garym1a2
08-27-2012, 08:37 AM
Just four years
just four years
2151 + 4 = 2155
Dale53
08-27-2012, 08:44 AM
I have been casting for 62 years.
2155+62=2217
Dale53
btroj
08-27-2012, 09:04 AM
30 years. Make it 2247.
It is amazing tough to think that I learned more in the last 5 years than I did the first 25.
riorider
08-27-2012, 09:42 AM
42 yrs = 2320
Geraldo
08-27-2012, 03:49 PM
Only been at it 23 years.
2320+23=2343
33 years reloading,1 year casting,I'm a late"bloomer"![smilie=l:2343+34+2377
OBIII
08-28-2012, 01:45 AM
May as well add my 6 years into the mix. Total now at 2383. Did I win? :mrgreen:
DRNurse1
08-28-2012, 03:43 AM
Dang, I must be a lot younger than my wife says I am: reloading and casting 18 years puts over 3 millenia at
3001
sljacob
08-28-2012, 07:14 AM
reloading 35 years casting casting only 5
3001+35=3036
Jeffrey
08-28-2012, 12:11 PM
Reloading 42 years, casting 24 years.
3036 + 42 = 3078
tryNto
08-28-2012, 12:11 PM
Count is off. Went from Post #88 2383 to Post #89 3001..
Corrected count as of now. 2478
kodiak1
08-28-2012, 01:25 PM
2478 + 41 = 2519
Ken.
Sharp eye! Thanks for catching that.
Count stands at 2519
Cariboo
08-28-2012, 04:32 PM
sarted casting for 47years ago -26 (some rough years)= 21
2519+21= 2540
catmandu
08-28-2012, 05:31 PM
I did a quick count and it's been 31 years.
2540 + 31= 2571.
Artful
08-28-2012, 10:01 PM
best count loading on my own is 32 + 2571 = 2603
I won't count the years when I was a kid and just helping my dad, so.....2603+42=2645
DRNurse1
11-03-2012, 10:21 PM
My math error, the boss is happy I am not 600years old. Sorry guys.
RayinNH
11-03-2012, 11:46 PM
40 more=2685...Ray
toooldtocare
11-03-2012, 11:58 PM
I bed if we took all the politicians in the white house and did this the numbers wouldn't hit a thousand!!!
27judge
11-04-2012, 12:09 AM
i started in 1960 that makes 52 years or 2737
hiram1
11-04-2012, 10:45 AM
I started 2 years ago and with a lot of help on here from the guys on cast boolits i am doing good now.you have to read it and if you cant find it ask somone.and im sure thay will help.thay sure did help me a lot.the guys spend a lot of time trying to help others to cast good boolits and a lot of other things in shooting.so just ask.Tell them about your good luck as well as the bad.just look out for the lube groove sellsman he will try to sell you a large box of them and you dont need the large box i still have a lot of them left over from 2 years ago
Well I started reloading and casting in 1975 so thats 37 years.
2737 + 37 = 2774
plus hiram1 2 years makes it 2776
Whistler
11-04-2012, 11:22 AM
2776 + 4 = 2780 years
williamwaco
11-04-2012, 01:48 PM
Only 105 members total 2780 years.
What would be if all 23,000 members answered ? ? ? ?
Mind boggling.
.
PbHurler
11-05-2012, 08:02 AM
2780 + 32 = 2812
avogunner
11-05-2012, 08:30 AM
2812 + 25 = 2837
Semper Fi!
Boerrancher
11-05-2012, 08:55 AM
2837+35= 2872
LIMPINGJ
11-05-2012, 09:41 AM
2872+43=2915
Brasso
11-05-2012, 09:49 AM
Reloading-1971, casting- 1984
2915+41=2956
Sam
Bought my first rifle at 14 & have been reloading for the last 27 years, & this year started casting my own.
2956+27 = 2983
Bad Water Bill
11-05-2012, 12:13 PM
Well i guess I will have to be the one to break the 3000 barrier with post #113.
I started around 1970 so about 40 years
2983 + 40 =3023
farmallcrew
11-05-2012, 03:49 PM
3023+10= 3033
Keep casting, swaging, and loading!!!!!
Smitty's Retired
11-05-2012, 04:57 PM
I started reloading around 1986, so 26 years.
3033 +26=3059
But only been casting for a few months and having fun learning.
David2011
11-05-2012, 09:01 PM
30 years since I cast my first boolit.
3059+30=3089.
David
TheDoctor
11-05-2012, 10:28 PM
Reloading and casting for 20, and still trying to figure out what I'm doing.
3089 + 20 = 3109
tmax64
11-06-2012, 08:38 AM
Been reloading for 19 years now and casting for 10 of that. I'm a N00B!
3109+10=3119
Tazman1602
11-06-2012, 08:57 AM
Man been reloading since 1979 and casting since about 1985 so
3109 + 27 = 3136
captaint
11-06-2012, 09:02 AM
I'm only gonna count my years of casting. I've been loading my own since the 70's. But, after all, this is Cast Boolits, so I only count those years.
3136 plus 4 = 3140. done. Mike
fixit
11-06-2012, 03:19 PM
37 years. got started in reloading and muzzleloading about the same time when i was in my teens. casting for reloading came later. add that to 3140, it comes to 3177!
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