foxyloxy Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Loading away merrily last night when the wife walked past & muttered the immortal words" Where will it all end"? What she was referring to, was the bombsite that has become my reloading room / man cave & the amount of gear I've stuffed into it. 2 gun cabinets A single stage press Numerous shelves & tupperware boxes of once, twice, thrice fired etc. brass, bullets, half used tubs of powders 2 Powder throwers 2 sets of Beam scales Electronic powder dispenser A Dillon 550B progressive press Reloading books & paperwork etc. etc. etc. For 3 or 4 years I was happily pootering away with my Lee turret press & my lee dies & my lee beam scales rattling out 223's then 6.5x55's then 308's etc. Sub MOA was good enough for me. This last year or 2, things seem to have gone a bit mental. Finally bought myself a gun that is capable of shooting groups in the 0.2"s & 0.3"s, spent money on "good" dies, "good" scales etc. Now I'm weighing everything & measuring everything - Sales of Tesco zippable sandwich bags have gone thru the roof!! Is this normal???? Now I'm looking at concentricity gauges & annealing machines... Am I just a shop keepers wet dream? What do they say about a fool and his money?? I'm beginning to wonder if the wife is right........ Opinions on a postcard please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1967spud Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 sounds about right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20series Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Nope you sound like the rest of us.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCetrizine Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 I only wanted one rifle. 6 now plus two shotguns and a variation filed for 3 more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banus02 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 good evening 6 firearms plus 3 more......don't ever move into thames valley when you get to five they start wriggling and whining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryh Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Think cocaine might be a cheaper habit........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcampbellsmith Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Yes, only buying a couple of boxes of Federal .243 once in a while seems a distant memory. As I write there's reloading stuff in every room in the house bar the lounge. The odd thing with reloading is that I find I've lots of fired cases, but never very much loaded ammunition. Regards JCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brillo Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Perfectly normal. Everyone else is odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 It all sounds reasonable enough - I don't understand the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texterted Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 I can't play pool in the man cave anymore, the table is covered in reloading gear! At least I have my priorities right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onehole Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Completely normal Foxyloxy,,,you will never go back because you will never accept less than the 2,s and 3,s now and you wont get this from thrown together components. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch308 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 That could be me you are writing about,once it gets hold of you it won't let go, it's got to the stage that if I haven't placed an order with spud for a few days he rings me to see if I'm ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch308 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 That could be me you are writing about,once it gets hold of you it won't let go, it's got to the stage that if I haven't placed an order with spud for a few days he rings me to see if I'm ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggersqueezer Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 no its not normal,if she makes any more comments don't let them slide.like a dog once they get bad habbits or feel they can make comments the next thing she will be asking how much you have spent. act now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbal Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 The symptoms seem familiar. It's only a serious risk to normality when you start to actually believe all the latest gizmos will transform a .3 rifle into a .2 rifle. Bullet meplet pointer/uniformers won't; a powder scale with precision way beyond one kernel won't; concenrtricity better than that of your barrel won't. Show your wife this mega cost gear,and emphasise your restraint in resisting (most) of it. What you need is some hard work on wind appreciation: the best place to do this in a relaxed ,learning mood ,is during the Carribean Trade Wind season.Take your wife too-she may come to appreciate your hobby more. gbal (divorced) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyR Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 A friend of mine had the same problem so he got rid of the wife to make more room ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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