What do you hate the most?
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I shoot trap competitively and go through 20,000 rounds a year give or take. I've got a hydraulic mec and I can't make myself sit in front of it loading shells!! Like you I buy them. The cost of components is taking away any meaningful savings. A lot easier to just order a pallet of shells. Metallic loading is still worth it to me from the savings and improved accuracy.Sometimes metallic handloading is just plain tedious. I can't say I hate it, but at times it's sure not intellectually rewarding. Mindless.
I do detest loading shotshells, though. Did it, hate it, and quit. To me, a shotshell only needs to go "bang" and spray a cloud of shot. A shotgun is little more than a hunk of conduit screwed to a 2x4.Real shotgunners can call me a heretic, but I stopped using my MEC years ago. It gathered dust and I eventually sold it. Instead I just buy cheap shotshells. Not that I'm much of a shotgunner, but the urge to break things visits now and then. Fortunately, it subsides when the weather turns sucky.
An aquantance at the rifle range thinks it is just a social gathering! Yes he does shoot but you can hear him from benches away YACKING all the time,
You may be snuggled up to your benched rifle trying to shoot and he is standing over you yapping------VERY ANNOYING!
Don't want to offend him though as he lives alone, his wife and kids dumped him.
Was so annoying the other day, that I wasted 65 rds. of ammo because I just couldn't concentrate!
Hip
You may be snuggled up to your benched rifle trying to shoot and he is standing over you yapping------VERY ANNOYING!
Don't want to offend him though as he lives alone, his wife and kids dumped him.
Was so annoying the other day, that I wasted 65 rds. of ammo because I just couldn't concentrate!
Hip
Kittitas George
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Our local indigenous people, here for over 10K years, did not have a word for hate.
jnyfeler
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YIPPIE EAI EYA KAI EAI , KAI EYE YIPPIE EAI KAI KYO!
Makes a lot of sense also.
The indigenous people ate the hearts of their enemies also!
Hate----PUFFFFFFF!
snert
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I resemble that remark!
With this being in the reloading forum, I'm going to stick to reloading procedures. While I may not actually hate any of them, there are a few I have to psych myself up for. Annealing brass has to be pretty close to the top. Trimming brass. Neck turning is tedious, no matter what tool or technique I use. Cleaning brass isn't fun. This is probably why my brass is usually dirty. Lately, maybe because I wanted to torture myself, I chambered a rifle with a tight necked chamber , so I have to turn the necks. Not satisfied with that, I put it on a rifle with a smaller bolt face, so I had to rebate the rims. The only way I could make it worse would be to use picked up brass, so I would have to clean it too. Since the new brass I ordered isn't coming on time, that's not out of the question.
When I was a kid, reloading was fun, so was shooting. Now, reloading is drudgery and shooting just means I have to reload some more. When I consider how poorly I shoot, it's a mystery why I do it at all.
In the end, there isn't anything I can think of that I really hate, in the area of reloading anyway. I can think of a lot of things I don't look forward too, but "hate" is too strong a word. WH
When I was a kid, reloading was fun, so was shooting. Now, reloading is drudgery and shooting just means I have to reload some more. When I consider how poorly I shoot, it's a mystery why I do it at all.
In the end, there isn't anything I can think of that I really hate, in the area of reloading anyway. I can think of a lot of things I don't look forward too, but "hate" is too strong a word. WH
wildcat3d
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No just kill the other tribe
gravelyctry
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I hate that I reload better than I can shoot.
Jonnyofalltrades
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I hate having a little bit of powder leftover in a bottle, or just a few bullets left in a box....
The bright side is that I usually burn this stuff up in plinking loads, which are always fun and good offhand practice.
The bright side is that I usually burn this stuff up in plinking loads, which are always fun and good offhand practice.
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