Sheep, Bullets, Primers and Ammunition

[Heym SR20]

I have just been loading up some 7x57 ammunition. I have come to the conclusion that all reloading components, along with loaded ammunition and sheep all share the same genetics.

That is my thesis.

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I take a tray of primers and turn them into the hand primer. There is always one that escapes.

I tip powder into the scales. There are always one or two kernels of powder that end up bouncing onto my desk.

I have carefully taken out 15 cases, primed them, loaded in powder, loaded in the 15 fox 130gn bullets that were in the box. Crimped. Then find another two hiding under the brown paper packaging in the box. Nope you are not escaping.

Remove the bullet seating die, deprime and resize two more cases, clean off the wax, load in N140 powder seat and crimp the bullets and put into the two empty spaces on my field wallet.

Put everything away, all neat a tidy(ish). Lock the keys away.

But no, those two bullets have conspired with the other five that are in the wallet to have moved the wallet under some papers on my desk. I have just seen them. I know they are hiding from me.

In the same way I am going to help sheering some jacobs cross shetland sheep on the farm tomorrow. There will always be a couple that avoided being rounded up and will have gotten themselves into the big wood on the cliff face…..

Little do they nor the bullets what will happen ….

 

[Len the dog]

Like those childhood puzzles where you have to steer a tiny ball bearing around a circular maze, there is always one primer that flatly refuses to play ball.

 

[tim@tcs]

Clearly a man of taste, apart from the sheep

 

[Longstrider]

I have just been loading up some 7x57 ammunition. I have come to the conclusion that all reloading components, along with loaded ammunition and sheep all share the same genetics.

That is my thesis.

Data

I take a tray of primers and turn them into the hand primer. There is always one that escapes.

I thought that everyone knew that primer manufacturers purposefully weight the rim of the cup of 2 or 3 in every 100 primers so that they will ALWAYS sit the wrong way up. It's done as an 'elf-n-safety matter to ensure home-loaders are awake

 

[Longstrider]

On a second note of importance ...

"Everyone quick ! Lets get round to Heym's place. He has primers ! "

 

[BenBhoy]

some jacobs cross shetland sheep

There's being a masochist, and then there's just plain daft!!!

 

[Reddish]

I used to dread lamb-marking season....getting a mob of maybe 600-800 ewes plus their lambs into the yards, you would just about get them to go through a gateway then a few lambs would bolt and run in the wrong direction and more would follow them, they were like un-guided missiles.Shearing time not so bad I had to help with crutching getting ready for shearing but then I just did the pressing and helping out in the shed others had to do the actual shearing.I do recall having to shoot a sheep with an M1 carbine it was maybe 50-60 yards away and had a full fleece the fleece was quite hard to penetrate it acted as a vest and soaked up quite a bit of impact of the projectiles, that would have been around 40 years ago now.