Reeder Custom Guns - I have 2 confessions to make.

1. I do not enjoy reloading. I think I just heard Huey spit coffee across the room. It is just work to me. I will continue reloading because it makes sense. Financial savings aside, it is hard to find loaded ammo! So to me it is better than cleaning all the ceiling fans, but there is always something else better to do.

B. I missed a pig today with my 44 special Blackhawk. About 50lbs. I just choked. I’ll be back at it before church if the rains passes by morning. The little rascals just stand under the white oaks I’m hunting with their mouths open.

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It has allowed me to shoot most weeks for 45 years.

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GO TO BED UNTIL YOU FEEL BETTER. WHAT IS WRONG WITH WORK!?!?!? THE ONLY BETTER TO DO THAN RELOADING IS SHOOTING.

And Miss Dee thinks I work too much!

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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."

Mark Twain .. in Tom Sawyer

Many still claim it's the same thing. On the other hand, I still disagree with them. Measuring out a gun and making sure each component matches it. A bit OCD by some standards, but self satisfying.

About the only thing I rate higher is working in my yard. If I had my way it's what I'd do every day.

I read these last two sentences. Now I am really worried about you!

Chainsaw, tractor and mower. Even keep my shooting ranges landscaped.

I thought you meant mowing the lawn, trimming, weeding the flowers etc. etc. etc. Chainsaw, tractor, and mower is the right kind of yard work.

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I used to be able to shoot 12 months a year when I was in my invincible time of life, however now that I my fragile period I am a fair weather shooter and normally my shooting time is April through October with the other months being for reloading/handloading. Writing and picture taking can happen at any time.

During the original obnoxious lockdown I went out to my storage/work shed and gathered up all the .45 ACP brass I had been tossing into buckets over the past few years. There were over 5000 pieces and I spent two days sorting them by headstamp, then tumbled them clean and loaded them one at a time on the Rockchucker. That required about 35,000 single operations.

Now November is upon us and it is reloading/handloading time again and I'm doing the same thing with 9 mm brass I did with the .45 ACP with two exceptions. There is a lot more 9 mm and I speeded up the process slightly by using the Progressive 2000 to size, de-prime, re- prime, and slightly bell the case mouth. I then load in quantities of 100-200 On the Rockchucker. I was just out to the shed to tumble some more brass and I found a another 5 gallon bucket of 9 mm brass and even better I found the same amount of .38 Super brass I had forgotten about.

Diamond Dot is fixing cheeseburgers for lunch and that it is back to "work". I have until late March to finish everything including 1200.44 Special .44 Magnum cases primed, expanded and loaded into MTM cartridge cases ready to receive powder and bullets.

I love reloading and always have since I was 14 that’s when I started I still love reloading today. I like reloading almost as much as shooting it doesn’t bother me to trim the cases clean out the primer pockets and weigh each load that I hunt with, I’ve always liked it it’s relaxing to me and I probably will to the day I die I guess I’m lucky that way. To me it’s an experiment and very satisfying when everything turns out well and your groups are really tight. Molding and sizing and lubricating bullets I also enjoy that I must be strange I guess. I reload all my shotgun bullets also. I’ve always enjoyed reloading it’s like a recipe for each and every caliber and great when you can perfect it.

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