Had my nails done

[Slugnutty]

Had a 100 rounds of re-manufactured - re-load rounds for the .38SP S&W model 642
Great for plinking, and gun cycling as long as you assume some will go click when you wan BANG.

They are led flat nose and OH MY GAWD were they DIRTY shooting rounds.
Note the clean stripe on the support hand where the trigger guard rested above my finger.






Purdy

[getsome]

love the color, gave me a woody....nothing like gun porn

[Slugnutty]

Well Sir. It's a business doing pleasure with you.

[CJB]

What kind of wristwatch?

[Slugnutty]

Seiko SNK809
I have gorilla wrists, so put a different Seiko metal band on it. I could only get the fist hole on the strap to take, and was WAY too tight ....
I like it, it's my first mechanical, most likely my last also. I don't usually wear until I leave the house, and I work form home so I can go days or even a week before I need to go somewhere, so a mechanical watch runs out of spring wind, so I'm constantly having to re-set time/day/date.

Give me a tough solar w/maybe atomic time set - good to go (for me)

[Bawanna]

I'm just the opposite, I got little girlyman wrists. All the stuff I've done, I'm really surprised I've never broke an arm or wrist. Can't hardly find a metal stretch band that's small enough.

I like the straps with velcro so I can get the fit right.

[SteveOak]

That is one of the reasons that I reload, to select a clean powder.

Commercial reloaders also tend to use the powder that will work with the smallest charge to save on powder cost. This is also usually the fasted powder which increases the potential for double charges. 3 or 4 grains Bullseye vs 8 or 10 grains of 296.

[Bills1873]

Agree on that reload/choice thing. My reloads with W231, 296, and even Titegroup are way cleaner than some factory practice rounds.

[Slugnutty]

I have such a small livable area that I have no room to reload.
I'd love to, maybe some day I can build a man cave shed and start... but lights, water, mortgage first.

[CJB]

I have such a small livable area that I have no room to reload.

You can get a Lyman 310 tool, dies for not much money. You can get some Lee measuring spoons and their chart for dirt cheap. Get their primer tool too, its really good. Done!

I loaded thousands of .44mag as my first entry into reloading, using a Lee hand tool set, and a leather mallet. They weren't great precision, but my Super Blackhawk shot them well. And ya know... it was fun times, rewarding times, shooting the ammo that "I made myself!". You can fit the whole kit, including boxes of primers, bullets, and a can of powder into a canvas military style "tool bag", or a decent size utility box. And... if you ever get a press, there is an adapter to use those dies on a press (they're smaller diameter threads which get bushed up).

So, you got the room. You just need a few bucks (under $200 for everything), and the "want to".

Hey lemme say too, that I'm in the process of putting together what I'd need to make .45 LC ammo with a 310 tool, including bullet mold, "cowboy style". Load 'em up with black powder (ok... Pyrodex), and get the big boom cowboy shots. Can take this out to the woods with me (aka camping on my friends lonely acres out in BFE), and sit by the camp fire melting lead, making bullets, lubing and loading them to shoot the next day. That, is pure fun.

[DavidWJ]

My reloading bench is a 2ft by 3ft piece of plywood with the goodies from the Lee Anniversary kit. Worked out to about $300 with three sets of dies and supplies for those calibers.

[Slugnutty]

OK - I need to get back to researching this re-loading
Need to get some other things out of the way, but spring 2017 may be a good time to dip my toe in to the deep end.