My vacuum cleaner can locate them! It even detonates one now and then...Of course I only drop them one or two at a time in deep pile. Wonder how many are still lurking down there?
There is nothing like dropping a base mount screw that you have custom made on the shop floor .You spend thirty minnuts making it and now you can't find it. So you make another one . The one you originally dropped now magicly appears under your chair.
It's always that way.the original will NEVER be located until a replacement is made or bought.Then it magically appears where you have searched several times. F.M. I call it. (F%$#@%g magic!).
I learned long ago that a magnet on a stick is the most valuable tool in my workshop. I have saved hours over the years by using this tool to find tiny dropped parts. It won't work with primers, of course . . . .
I'm still missing 9. Tore the garage apart and used a strong flashlight, but no luck. I did find a recoil spring guide rod for a Les Baer 1911 I lost over a year ago.
They disappear in carpet pretty easy to.I've looked for an H&R 22 trigger spring that flew away on the floor for about a hour before but finally found it.
I pitty the sorry bast*** that decides to vaccum my reload room carpet. All the pimers and powder down there will destroy a vacuum. One of these days I'll brave up and use the shop vac with a bag
This gives me an idea for deer camp fun. place a stack of primers in a tube just like they are for a dillon, lay it horizontal, and see who can hit it head on from 10 yards with a BB gun
I pitty the sorry bast*** that decides to vaccum my reload room carpet. All the pimers and powder down there will destroy a vacuum. One of these days I'll brave up and use the shop vac with a bag
This gives me an idea for deer camp fun. place a stack of primers in a tube just like they are for a dillon, lay it horizontal, and see who can hit it head on from 10 yards with a BB gun
I like that idea! I have an occasional problem with the RCBS primer system on my turret press, in that the carrier doesn't always seat properly, and manages to turn the primer sideways before I ram it home. That leads to deformed primers that won't work for shooting, but just might make good targets! I could take a dozen of them, pack them into something - a small box, maybe - and set it for a target. I hate to waste anything that might go BOOM!
Reading this got me to thinking............. A few days ago I went out in the boonies shooting with a friend. When we arrived at our spot he drags out a 20' square tarp and I'm thinking it's a tent to keep us in the shade but no, it was to catch the brass we commenced to fling all over.
Maybe a small tarp of sorts would be a good idea underneath our loading area. Just fold up the four corners and you'd probably catch most of the items dropped.
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