Boerrancher
10-11-2012, 08:24 PM
:holysheep
At the first part of the week I went to my fathers last residence and started cleaning up the reloading stuff. My daughters and I just tossed it all into boxes over the weekend and I hauled what we had boxed up home on Mon and Tue. I have spent the last two days going through it, and what I packed up is only a small dent in it, and I have his old house and shop to do this week end.
This after noon I spent 6 hours pulling down old ammo that the brass was corroded on beyond salvageable. I bet I have 100 lbs of bad brass, stuff with cracked necks, corrosion, and crushed necks or shoulders. I know some of the 30-06 and 6mm-06 with cracked necks, I could have annealed, and sized and trimmed to .308win, 6mm Rem, or .243win, but when I already have hundreds upon hundreds of each, why do I want to do all of the work to make more? I think I would rather take the money for the scrap brass and buy primers or powder with it, or maybe new 303 and 8mm molds. I would have just dumped it all into one big box with out pulling it down, but I was concerned the scrap man wouldn't take it if it was live ammo.
I am so thankful for the kinetic bullet puller. If I had to use my collete puller and press I would still be working through all that ammo. I just dumpped the powder into a large powder can and marked it smokeless mixed powders. There may come a day that I need to remove a stump or something. Drill some large holes in the stump, fill them with deisel fuel, and after they soak up pack the center hole with the powder and light it. It burns pleanty hot enough to get the wood and fuel going. I am going to have to put all the bad brass in smaller boxes because there is no way I can carry this box to the truck.
Best wishes,
Joe
At the first part of the week I went to my fathers last residence and started cleaning up the reloading stuff. My daughters and I just tossed it all into boxes over the weekend and I hauled what we had boxed up home on Mon and Tue. I have spent the last two days going through it, and what I packed up is only a small dent in it, and I have his old house and shop to do this week end.
This after noon I spent 6 hours pulling down old ammo that the brass was corroded on beyond salvageable. I bet I have 100 lbs of bad brass, stuff with cracked necks, corrosion, and crushed necks or shoulders. I know some of the 30-06 and 6mm-06 with cracked necks, I could have annealed, and sized and trimmed to .308win, 6mm Rem, or .243win, but when I already have hundreds upon hundreds of each, why do I want to do all of the work to make more? I think I would rather take the money for the scrap brass and buy primers or powder with it, or maybe new 303 and 8mm molds. I would have just dumped it all into one big box with out pulling it down, but I was concerned the scrap man wouldn't take it if it was live ammo.
I am so thankful for the kinetic bullet puller. If I had to use my collete puller and press I would still be working through all that ammo. I just dumpped the powder into a large powder can and marked it smokeless mixed powders. There may come a day that I need to remove a stump or something. Drill some large holes in the stump, fill them with deisel fuel, and after they soak up pack the center hole with the powder and light it. It burns pleanty hot enough to get the wood and fuel going. I am going to have to put all the bad brass in smaller boxes because there is no way I can carry this box to the truck.
Best wishes,
Joe