We were sitting here in the shooting room, and remembering some of the funny things that had happened here.

Here is one that should put a smile on your faces.

Years ago, I found a place with an old swimming pool full of lead shot.

Don't ask me where they got it from, but, I was offered it at a very cheap price.

We put the lead shot in 48 gallon drums, and brought them home.

I think we had about a dozen!

We used quite a lot of that in melting for pistol bullets, and loaded some shotgun shells with them too.

Anyway, the drums were in our workshop.

A friend brought a few cardboard boxes full of once fired 9mm brass, and we put those in the workshop too.

We had a new employee, and one after noon I gave him a box of ziplock bags, and told him to go out to the workshop and put 100 cases in each bag.

He disappeared, and a 3-4 hours later we wondered where he was, as we did not expect the job he was supposed to do would take that long.

I called him on the phone.

"How long before you are finished?"

"Very long time sir. Will not finish today. I got more bags and I am filling them in"

"Are you putting 100 in each bag?"

"Yes sir. Each bag 100"

I thought something was going on, so I went outside to investigate.

As I got to the workshop. I saw him standing by one of the drums, happily counting 100 lead pellets into each bag!

I burst out laughing. No wonder he was going to take a long time to count them.

May be a few years!

It is odd the ways you keep Walter so busy!!!

I can just hear Saeeds distinctive laugh when he found the guy counting lead pellets instead of the brass!
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If he was being paid by the hour, he was a genius.

Walter is great at adjusting triggers, so he gets that job every time the need arise.

I had a Hall action bench rest rifle, with a Jewel trigger.

If any of you is familiar with this design, there is a sort of shoe that the trigger fits in as it goes into the action.

The trigger fits in either way. But, when it is upside down, the sear does not engage the trigger at all.

I installed it backwards, so it cannot be adjusted, and asked Walter to adjust it.

He spent the whole afternoon trying, sweating profusely, despite his usual break for an ice cream.

I was giving him a lot of stick, for being so bloody useless.

Eventually he went to get himself a coffee. Quickly, I put everything back together as it should be, and left it on the bench.

Walter came and sat down to have his coffee.

"I am going to have ago and see if I can fix this, as you seem to be so bloody useless at getting it done!"

"Go ahead. There is something wrong there, and I am not sure what it is"

I pretended to adjust some of the trigger adjusting screws, and loo and behold, it engages and fires.

Walter jumps up and comes over.

"What did you do?"

"I adjusted this screw a bit. That is it"

I told him about it a few days later.

I'm surprised you didn't hand him a loaded rifle! Some of the things you pull on him.

George

For those who do their own gunsmith work, will relate to the following.

Walter came over with a BRNO CZ527 223 rifle.

The barrel was in a terrible state, and he wanted me to put a new barrel on for him.

So I got a barrel, put it in the lathe, and asked Walter to center it.

The chamber end is held by the chuck, and the muzzle end sticks out from the rear of the lathe.

We have made a 4 screw holder, that the barrel fits through, and we use the 4 screws to center the barrel as much as we can.

We use an indicator gage for this as we rotate the barrel.

I found a gage that goes to 0.00001".

This one is actually impossible to use, but I stuck it with its magnetic base at the end of the lathe, and asked Walter to center the barrel before I chamber it.

I left him there, and went next door to make bullets on our CNC lathe.

As usual, Walter worked himself into a lather! Sweating and swearing, and providing entertainment for all of us in the workshop.

That gage moves just as soon as you LOOK at it!

He was at it all afternoon, and as the evening came, we decided to start trying next day.

If we are all lucky enough to have a friend or two we can have that kind of fun with, life is good.

Back in 1967 or 68 when I started reloading, it took me a few minutes to understand that grains of powder does not have anything to do with individual flakes of powder.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Back in 1967 or 68 when I started reloading, it took me a few minutes to understand that grains of powder does not have anything to do with individual flakes of powder.

it doesn't ?

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Originally posted by Steve Ahrenberg:

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Back in 1967 or 68 when I started reloading, it took me a few minutes to understand that grains of powder does not have anything to do with individual flakes of powder.

it doesn't ?

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Looking at an old Lee Hand Loader and it says 37 grains of whatever and setting there counting out 37 grains just did not seem the way it was supposed to work.

One day after that, because I started loading shotgun shells, I was in my room priming some empty 12 gauge shells with 209 primers, and with the Lee Loader you have a metal ram that goes down into the shell and you set the new primer on this anvil sort of deal and hammer the shell down onto the primer until it seats.

Well one day I hammered one down a tad too far, and it went off in my hand, and between my squeal and the sound of the primer going off, my Mother came running back to my room thinking I had killed myself.

I do remember that when the primer went off I throwed hammer, loader and all as far as I could.

Bad part is, that was way before I went to drinking.

Just to humour you lot, I counted 42 "grains" of Reloader 22 which makes up one grain of weight.

Walter once asked why am I reducing the amount of powder in a charge.

"Because now I am using a heavier bullet"

"Does that mean the heavier the bullet, the less powder you have to use?"

"Basically, yes"

"So if use a VERY heavy bullet, then you don't have to use any powder"

"True. But you have to throw that bullet at the animal you are shooting"

Good one.

We have an individual here who is a bit of a twit.

He thinks he is far clever than he actually is.

Years ago, my brother asked if I could do something to shut him up, regarding guns and ammo.

I necked up a 357 Magnum pistol case, to take a 44 caliber bullet.

I primed it, and seated a bullet in.

I left that here in our shooting room, in a place I knew he will find it.

A few days later, he comes in here, and sure enough, picks it up.

"What is this? I have never seen anything like it before"

"Ah that one. It is used by special forces under water. They have a newly designed pistol especially for this. Much better than using a spear gun."

"WOW! It is such a neat design! Do you have one I can have?"

"You can have that one. I have a box of them"

He took that, and wasted no time in going to see his friends in our military base. Apparently he spent so much time convincing them that it was a new invention for underwater war fare!

It never occurred to him how the hell was one going to load that thing.

Stuff like that is why when we stand before God on Judgement Day, He is just going to shake his head and say this ain't gonna work.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Stuff like that is why when we stand before God on Judgement Day, He is just going to shake his head and say this ain't gonna work.

Surely, God has some sense of humor?

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Originally posted by Steve Ahrenberg:

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Stuff like that is why when we stand before God on Judgement Day, He is just going to shake his head and say this ain't gonna work.

Surely, God has some sense of humor?

Of He has1

Why do you think he has made l;lawyers and politicians?

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Surely, God has some sense of humor?

That is why I have made to be 66.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by Steve Ahrenberg:

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Stuff like that is why when we stand before God on Judgement Day, He is just going to shake his head and say this ain't gonna work.

Surely, God has some sense of humor?

Of He has1

Why do you think he has made l;lawyers and politicians?

Or Arab Sheikhs!

Don

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Or Arab Sheikhs!

Ouch!!!!!