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    Boolit Buddy
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    You empty the coffee into plastic bags so you can use the can.

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    You might be a reloader if you can't bear to shoot your reloads because you think they are to pretty and perfect to use, but you keep on loading them anyways. And like Lube says, it's a good excuse for having another small building built to store your Handloads and shooting supplies.

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    1--You go to range---spend too much time picking up brass/boxes--sun goes down---never got to shoot---roll eyes---guilty as charged

    2-----have approx 8000 empty boxes/trays---will need if I live to be 310 years old----yes---guilty

    3---Have re-shot bullets dug out of the berm----yes

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    you may be a reloader if you think you can form just about any case you need from either '06 or 223 brass

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    You have more shotgun hulls then you will ever use but always looking for more, You keep looking for more brass no matter if you have all you need aready
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    LMAO! I think I have been guilty of ALMOST all of these
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    I am a reloader. I have:
    1. Hurried to shoot 100 factory loaded 35 Rem cartridges so I could get my own loads in the brass. I got the factory stuff in a trade for a Marlin lever.

    2. We use lots of cut mixed greens for salads and I request the boss lady to buy those from the store that do not have tapered sides so I can store shotgun hulls easier. They are so easy to stack on a shelf and you can see the contents.

    3. Asked wife, daughters, friends and folks at church to save square containers with lids, so I can store brass. Round containers waste valuable cabinet/shelf space.

    4. Considered the labor in washing the used bedding from the reptile cages that the grandkids keep snakes and lizards in. Reptile urine and feces might react with my brass. Have not stooped this low, YET!.

    Yes, I am a reloader and I might ......................................soon or in the near future.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bear67 View Post
    1. Hurried to shoot 100 factory loaded 35 Rem cartridges so I could get my own loads in the brass.
    Met a guy at our range with a .375 H&H, apparently with factory ammo, offering to let people shoot it. He didn't shoot it himself, and I didn't see anybody else shoot it more than once.

    We figure he was a reloader, and wanted to load something more comfortable.

    Quote Originally Posted by bear67 View Post
    3. Asked wife, daughters, friends and folks at church to save square containers with lids, so I can store brass. Round containers waste valuable cabinet/shelf space.
    The 35 oz. size of Wal Mart peanuts comes in a square-ish clear plastic wide mouth jar that's about right to hold 100-200 pieces of rifle brass.

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    If I had to serve a year for each of the aforementioned "charges", I'd be doing Life+15 yrs.
    Got-R-Did.

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    Been doing all these things for a while !!

    I think I can hear wheel weights callin from the side of the road now !!

    & muffled sounds coming from the the trash barrels at the range!!

    Oh yeah , I`m an addict & can stop anytime , just don`t want to !!!

    GP
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    You sweet talk your wife and daughter to get up at 5am and go to the range to pick up brass while you're at work.
    What if..... you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

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    I have never done any of these things...



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    Quote Originally Posted by 3jimbo3 View Post
    You sweet talk your wife and daughter to get up at 5am and go to the range to pick up brass while you're at work.
    Not a single post had anything on me until yours. My wife has picked up a lot of brass for me when we get to the range but she isn't going to get up at 5am.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JSnover View Post
    You will scrounge parts and materials for weeks and work for two days to fabricate a casting or reloading tool that could be bought for under $20.
    Now that's me!
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    When someone comes into your reloading area and asks you "what are those black drums for" and you tell them "almost a ton of wheel weights." And they notice the sadness on your face because you said "almost".

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check