How Lucky are You?

[KMart]

I had a reloading incident today. I was setting up to prime some cases and knocked an uncovered tray of SR primers off the table. Went all the way to the floor. Fortunately it was not a full tray.
What percentage should I reasonably expect to recover?

 

[jepp2]

What percentage should I reasonably expect to recover?

What ever you don't find are miniature land mines in the future. When ever I drop one, I don't stop looking until I find it. I've read of them going off in vacuum cleaners.

 

[KMart]

What ever you don't find are miniature land mines in the future. When ever I drop one, I don't stop looking until I find it. I've read of them going off in vacuum cleaners.

So you are 100% successful. Great.

 

[GLShooter]

100%

 

[Mark W]

I dropped a couple of 223 brass while walking downstairs to semi finished basement where I reloaded in our last house. I never did find one piece and I looked long and hard just because I felt that it should be right there. I never did find that piece of brass. Not even after we packed up to move and I swept it out. I’m sure that primers wouldn’t end well for me.

 

[Chaotik]

Unfortunately, this has happened to me, but I would expect to find all of them, and not stop looking until I did.

 

[jepp2]

So you are 100% successful. Great.

But I have never dropped a partial tray. You have a challenge, good luck!

 

[Gary in MD]

Are we talking hardwood floors or shag carpet?
I’m guessing that you’ll get 95 to 98 percent. I’d do the best that I could and then after that, just forget it.

 

[Chaotik]

My wife gets pissed when she finds primers in her shoes.

 

[jpx2rk]

Just walk barefooted in the area, you'll find every single one of them.

 

[GLO123]

You better expect to recover every single one. So 100% recovery. Think of it this way, one day you or your wife is running the vacuum, and one goes off. I don’t want to be that guy.

 

[K22]

All of them - they all have to be there somewhere - I don't stop looking until I find a primer I inadvertently dropped.

You have to have a mindset that I will find them, all of them, and keep looking until you do.

 

[Webster]

I had a reloading incident today. I was setting up to prime some cases and knocked an uncovered tray of SR primers off the table. Went all the way to the floor. Fortunately it was not a full tray.
What percentage should I reasonably expect to recover?

I use a flashlight. It creates a shadow that makes them look bigger. Shouldn't be too hard to find all of them.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Just get the leaf blower, they will go out in the driveway with everything else.

 

[KMart]

Are we talking hardwood floors or shag carpet?
I’m guessing that you’ll get 95 to 98 percent. I’d do the best that I could and then after that, just forget it.

Shag carpet. 5 pounds of lead shot is really hard to recover there. it is amazing how far a small part will jump when it fell between your legs.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

You

Shag carpet

You will be the next u tube star if you secretly start filming your wife vacuuming.

 

[rwj]

What ever you don't find are miniature land mines in the future. When ever I drop one, I don't stop looking until I find it. I've read of them going off in vacuum cleaners.

Been there, done that! It’s why I kept/used an old Hoover in my reloading area that was carpeted. The small primers aren’t too bad when they ignite via the roller brush, the large ones definitely got my attention! No worries now, new area has a hard floor…

 

[dryhumor]

I heard an AR part hit something this afternoon. I kinda know by the sound kinda where it is. I might find it one day. Maybe.

I usually find the primers when I’m barefoot. I have a small bottle of them. All sizes and brands. I’ll probably pick a mid load charge and shoot ‘em up.

 

[Ray123]

How lucky are you? ....I was looking for something more profound...not a simple everyday accident. Like,. "I spilled some milk on the floor"????
Being one of the luckiest men alive, greater than winning a billion dollar lottery. I might know something about that...
I died the first time at 38 from an aneurysm that has killed everyone in the state at the time, no survivors. Out of blood and oxygen to the brain, for too long should have been brain dead... and that's what the doctors expected...but I come back to a form of consciousness, I couldn't see but hear what's was said...woke to a bunch of electrodes attatched to my head. I did not know who I was, and had no concept of time...what is your name? what year is it?..."I don't know," was the answer.
So with a lot of luck and a few miracles I gained back most of what was lost....to function as a normal human being and lead a productive life and contribute to society....Lucky to the Max,...that is past lucky...When, "you're the only One, ever, to survive", so the Health and Sciences University had to send a team of doctors to "study" me, offer some extreme medical solutions, and all predicted the outcome was grim at best...as they discussed frankly and openly, infront of me, there was little hope any of it would work...
Sometimes real luck and miracles happen to ordinary people...botched surgeries and all...or stepping on a rattlesnake that didn't let ya know it was there, and it bites you 2.5 hours to medical treatment...are you going to die today? Surviving that Is.... Lucky. Life is like that...flip a coin.

 

[gambleone]

How about a wide magnet to float over the carpet?