Reeder Custom Guns - Powder help!

I spilled a fair amount on my carpet. Not sure if I can vacuum that up or not. Any help?

Perhaps it is a good time to acquire a beverage of choice, ponder the potential outcome and clean out your vacuum. Then with a clean machine and safety glasses go for it. Then share with us the out come. Normally I just sweep it up.

I can advise you to not vacuum a large magnum primer, it really messed up the machine and the cat was in therapy outside for days following the event!

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and dust pan for most of it. Then got out the shop vac and slowly vacuumed the rest. Then emptied the shop vac. I was a little nervous for a while. My wife was eyeing new carpet!

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to time on carpet. It has become sort of a n art with me. In fact so much so that my wife got rid of the carpet and put down the big 14" Mescan tiles instead. But when you do the vacuum just make sure that there are no primers also on the floor and them go to it. Make sure and empty the vacuum cleaner out when finished. That might help. I still spill powder and primers but I just vacuum them up off the tiles.

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sources old vacuum cleaners from yard sales and sets them up to vac up a pail of gasoline! He gets far away with a long cord and plugs it in! Films it for viewing clicks. It used to be on Youtube, lots of views.

I'd not really worry about powder, it's basically just a flammable solid, many things are. A few hundred grains are nothing. It just burns with a match, not explosive. Now blackpowder, that is another matter. Like Gary said primers could be exciting.

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room. I have 8 Dillons on my bench and when the primer catcher is full I pitch them in the wood stove. Every now and then there will be a live one in there.
My main problem is getting the deer and zebra crap off my bench.
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I know most of your exposure has been work, but I hope you can reflect and enjoy it. It looks great to me.

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do I need all those presses. I tell them you can't get 41 GNR or any of the GNR calibers at Walmart, and we shoot around 800 to a thousand rounds of ammo every month test firing our custom guns. When I need some ammo loaded, I have one of my presses set up for that caliber, so I can get home, sit down at one of the Dillon presses and crank out a couple hundred rounds of ammo in an hour or so. I don't have the time to put new dies in the press, get it adjusted, run out a few test rounds and then load 200 rounds of ammo in an evening. My Dillons are all set up for straight wall cartridges like 44 Mag, 357 mag, 45 long colt and so on, while my 2 RCBS turret presses are set up for the necked down cartridges like 41 GNR, 410 GNR and so on. Each turret press holds dies for 3 calibers. I also have 2 RCBS single stage presses like the Rock Chucker and the big 4X4 press (I think they have re-named that press to something else.
Anyway I don't have a lot of spare time, getting home around 7 PM, do all my daily paperwork, do the daily taxes, grab a sandwich and then crank out a couple hundred rounds of ammo for the next couple of days test firing. With the Dillons and RCBS presses already set up I can load the ammo in no time at all. And still have time to answer a few e-mails.

I broke my normal routine last night. Kase is living with me and he gets all the new movies for us to watch. Last night I broke my routine and we watched Extractor 2. If you like action movies, this is the movie for you. I think there were 2 instances, maybe 3 minutes each, where they weren't in a gunfight or being shot at by the bad guys. It is solid action. I highly recommend it for you action freaks.

And to answer your comment yes I do enjoy having my mounts and hunt pictures all around me back in my reloading/trophy room. Sometimes if I have had a rough day I can throw on a DVD of one of our hunts, sit on the couch and watch the hunt and that helps smooth things out watching and listening to one of our handgun hunts.

And again I have been blessed way beyond what I deserve. And I am going to be a bit greedy and hope I can make a couple more hunts before I crash.

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Powder help!

Powder spillage......

Dying to hear the results. Great pointers!

Used a bristle brush

I tend to be a bit spastic and spill powder from

I thought I was the only one who spilled powder ...

On the extreme end... there is a guy who

I have a wood stove back in my reloading/trophy

Boss that’s a lifetime of memories and blessings

I have people that see my reloading room ask me why