I can’t be the only one?

Speedluvn · May 28, 2020

Am I the only one who gets on his hands and knees when I drop a primer? Are there any tips or tricks that you use to make easier to retrieve or prevent them from being dropped in the first place?

punisher12b · May 28, 2020

I like to let my wife find them with a vacuum cleaner one day. It will surprise her

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Todd S · May 28, 2020

They end up in the same place as springs from various firearms, that launch across the room. Nobody has been able to identify that place.

Doctor_M · May 28, 2020

Parallel dimension.... right next to the missing single socks.

Honestly, I have an old rug under my reloading bench... when I drop a primer or bullet, I usually just gently sweep my bare foot back and forth across the rug and I usually find the renegade.

TheOriginalMexicanBob · May 28, 2020

It's a variation to an immutable law of working on old cars...you will invariably drop an irreplaceable piece...hear it hit the floor then vanish completely from the face of the earth.

K31 · May 28, 2020

If you're reloading over a rug you might get a solid or rubber chair mat that might make them easier to find. It also helps with spilled powder.

Speedluvn · May 28, 2020

Todd S said:
They end up in the same place as springs from various firearms, that launch across the room. Nobody has been able to identify that place.

My reloading career consists of about 300 rounds total. I’ve dropped a few of them and found at least 7 or so last night. So I’m getting close to identifying “that place”. The reason I started looking was I had limited number of small rifle magnum primers. I was trying to maximize the number of rounds primed.

TheOriginalMexicanBob · May 28, 2020

I don't know whether primers are magnetic but I keep a wheeled magnet tool so whenever I drop something like a small screw or similar I simply roll the tool around and under and usually find what was dropped and often other things previously lost.

Uncle Duke · May 28, 2020

Primers are but a warmup.

For some real fun, dump a charge of 8 shot onto the floor.

Speedluvn · May 28, 2020

Uncle Duke said:
Primers are but a warmup.

For some real fun, dump a charge of 8 shot onto the floor.

Baby steps!

Melnic · May 28, 2020

My old house I had a carpet. Much better.
New house I have a rubber matt I put over the carpet. not so nice.

screws and primers always bounce and then hide UNDER SOMETHING. Its a law of physics

Uncle Duke said:
Primers are but a warmup.

For some real fun, dump a charge of 8 shot onto the floor.

OUCH!

fxk · May 28, 2020

Keep a 12" wide bar magnet on a stick. Picks up primers just fine.
Can't help with lead #8 shot. Steel shot?

PowPow · May 28, 2020

Uncle Duke said:
Primers are but a warmup.

For some real fun, dump a charge of 8 shot onto the floor.

Coffee just shot through my nose when I read this. :lol2:

tallen702 · May 28, 2020

Uncle Duke said:
Primers are but a warmup.

For some real fun, dump a charge of 8 shot onto the floor.

I see you know how I spent part of my day this past Monday. Except it was a 1-1/8oz throw of #9 chilled shot......

fxk · May 28, 2020

Got you beat.
Not too long ago, the old plastic large MEC bottle of 8-1/2 shot broke around the threads, dumping the bottle on the floor, where the rest of the bottle broke. Over 1/2 full... on a hardwood floor.

J Beard · May 28, 2020

Uncle Duke said:
For some real fun, dump a charge of 8 shot onto the floor.

Been there, done that :lol2:

fxk said:
Got you beat.
Not too long ago, the old plastic large MEC bottle of 8-1/2 shot broke around the threads, dumping the bottle on the floor, where the rest of the bottle broke. Over 1/2 full... on a hardwood floor.

That, my friend, sucks. Time to bring in the shop vac.
You're making me doubt the integrity of my 40 year old MEC bottles now.

outrider58 · May 28, 2020

Speedluvn said:
Am I the only one who gets on his hands and knees when I drop a primer? Are there any tips or tricks that you use to make easier to retrieve or prevent them from being dropped in the first place?

Only when I drop a whole tray...

Speedluvn · May 28, 2020

outrider58 said:
Only when I drop a whole tray...

One primer or a whole tray, it’s all relative.

outrider58 · May 28, 2020

Speedluvn said:
One primer or a whole tray, it’s all relative.

Meh, sorta...

Like Stalin once said, "...one primer is a tragedy. 100 primers is a statistic..."

...or something like that...

:innocent0

PowPow · May 28, 2020

outrider58 said:
Only when I drop a whole tray...

I think I'd rather fill my Chargemaster and discover that I forgot to close the emptying chute.

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