Doc Fill 'Em 67797 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Tonight I knocked over a coffee can full of .45 bullets, about 1,000 or so. They proceeded to roll everywhere, took a while to pick them up. At least it gave me a good excuse to sweep the shop floor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickamauga Charlie, SASS #47963 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 worse! i spilled 3000 i was delivering in the dirt the at the range. had to pick em up and clean em off before i could hand em over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curley Cole, SASS #56849 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Try small pistol primers on a hardwood floor............... curley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Gregg Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 CURLY BEAT ME TO THE DRAW! +1! Dang primers on the floor!! Mustang Gregg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prairie Dawg, SASS #50329 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Yep, except my primers bounced down a set of basement stairs. Took hours to get 'em all! --Dawg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGT. ELI 35882 GUNFIGHTER Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 I had a tree come thru the roof of my shop and I had a new box of 500 setting on a table. It's been probably 4 years and I'm still finding them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastmaster Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Spilling a lb of powder on table/floor/chair goes a long ways too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckaroo #13080 Regulator Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 A 25lb bag of shot will go places air can't get to! Roo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffler Razz Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Coffee can of #9 shot on shag carpet, didnt travel too far but rattled the vacuum cleaner for quite some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 The hiccup with spilling primers is they tend to go BANG!!! when you suck them up in a vacuum or crush them under a chair leg. After an evening spent finding every last one of one hundred that I spilled a while back, I vowed never to do that one again, and luckily have been successful so far. I've accepted a certain amount of #8 shot rolling around the reloading room floor. Ain't enough time in the day to find it all, and it doesn't make noise when you least expect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastmaster Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 shot is the worst to clean up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenn. Outrider, SASS #2353 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Now this is something that brought out alot of laughter. Been there ----done that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driftwood Johnson, SASS #38283 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 shot is the worst to clean up. Yeah, and it's real easy to spill a few thousand at a time. I'm still finding pellets that I dropped years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 A 25lb bag of shot will go places air can't get to! Roo Amen to that! I had a partial bag of #8's bust in my truck toolbox several years ago. I'm still finding shot in the toolbox after supposedly getting 'all of it' out at least twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodine Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 A 25lb bag of shot will go places air can't get to! Roo Yup, what he said! Bodine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mean Matt McCord, SASS #24683 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 A 25lb bag of shot will go places air can't get to! Roo Ain't it the truth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Winchester Jack, SASS #70195 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 one of the fellas I shoot with had the powder dispenser on his Dillon fly off and dump all over the table. I thought it was pretty funny until the same thing happened to me a few days later. Fortunately the lid stayed in place and no powder was spilled. Keep those nuts and screws tight folks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adirondack Jack, SASS #53440 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Dense, closed cell foam floor mats in the area around the loading press here. WHEN primers end up on the floor they are far less likely to get popped by a chair leg, etc..... They sell em as "puzzle blocks" 24" interlocking squares. Keep an eye out at yer discount big box store.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Hacker, #60477 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Years ago, a salesman was trying to sell my wife a vacuum cleaner in his shop. He had gone through all the dust and dirt demo's when she stopped him dead in his tracks. She asked,"Will it pull 7.5 shot out of shag carpet. He went to the back room and came back with two shells loaded with #4's and said "This is as close as I can get." He poured them out on his test carpet and the machine handled them nicely. Best vacuum we ever owned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Smokepole #29248L Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 You'll be finding them for months........lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgil Ray Hality, SASS# 37355 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Man oh man, I too have dropped shot (all too often). Carpet was the worst! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sage Creek Gus SASS #64320 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 I have a buddy who sells cowboy bullets from Bear Creek. He had just received a shipment from them of about 50 boxes of bullets of various sizes. He had them all setting on a table in his shop when the table collapsed and just about every box burst and spread those bullets all over the cement floor of his shop. He and his wife spend days not only picking them up but reboxing them. They had to count them as they reboxed them to be sure the count was right. SCG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Coles SASS 1188 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Spill a bag of shot some time. You can never find them all. That can be life threatening as you have a hard time seeing them and they act like tiny marbles to slip on when you least expect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Never had a thousand bullets fall on the floor, but........tried putting 60 boxes of shotgun shells on a shelf in a walkin closet one time. No problem until the 58th box. I sure do wish they had made the shelf stonger or the shot shell boxes better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Coles SASS 1188 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Years ago, a salesman was trying to sell my wife a vacuum cleaner in his shop. He had gone through all the dust and dirt demo's when she stopped him dead in his tracks. She asked,"Will it pull 7.5 shot out of shag carpet. He went to the back room and came back with two shells loaded with #4's and said "This is as close as I can get." He poured them out on his test carpet and the machine handled them nicely. Best vacuum we ever owned. Years ago I lived an an apartment with long shag carpet. My roommate spilled a 500 rnd box of 22s on it and they sank down into the shag. The first I heard of it was when I hit one with the vacuum. The beater bar set it off. We killed a couple of cheap vacuums that way. Finally got an old metal one and it just chugged along despite the small explosions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uno Mas SASS #80082 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Gotcha beat: A 75 pound shipment of 3500 125gr .357 bullets split open in an airport. Who knew the USPS would ship lead by air? TSA soiled their light blue panties en masse. EOTWAWKI was about to be declared when someone low enough in the organization to have common sense informed the supers that these were bullets, and without brass, primers and powder they were essentially fishing weights. The End of the World was reluctantly put on hold. The recipient was called to the local Post Office and given a very stern lecture by the Postmistress. He's been married for 35 years -- The PM's disapproval didn't begin to phase him. As far as we can tell -- we got all 3500 in the shipment. Must have been quite he mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosscut hardy Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Hi Andy -- pocket pistols doing great....... I laughed my head off just reading and thinking about some of the episodes of spills; I've had nothing compared to these cowboys, thank goodness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Gregg Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Heck, now I gotta tell the story about my old Pard, Dale. The was grinding Pyrodex C (at least I think it was) into FFFg with a coffee grinder. He spilled a bunch of it all over the carpet. Then he went out to the range to test fire some of his new "creation". Meanwhile back at the ranch, his wife saw the mess on the carpet. She got out the bag-type vacuum cleaner and started to pick up the debris. We reckon static electricity in the bag or maybe a motor spark set it off. The vacuum pretty much exploded. It threw burning crap all over the room. Burnt a humongous hole in the carpet, clear to the subfloor. Scorched the ceiling, walls, floor and his wifey's hair and dress. At least she had glasses on. Probably saved her vision. When the smoke cleared, Dale was in some trouble at home. Mustang Gregg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Pony Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 I'm with the guys who say shot in shag carpet is the worst. Every time I use the vacum in the hobby room it sounds like a coffee grinder full of bb's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 You know, this thread stirkes me as one that could only be better if we were all sitting around a pot bellied stove after a day of shootin and having a beer--or two. I've tipped over full MEC hoppers of shot without the stopper in it (did that twice--ya, slow learner), spilled countless primers and bullets. However, the worse happened about 6 years ago. The grandkids got into the reloading room. I still haven't figured out how the smallest of the bunch managed to get a door open that I had trouble with. They mixed together .44, .38 and .45-70 bullets--two different weights of .44s. They also consolidated my smokeless and BP .44s in coffee cans into one large box. It did make for a few "interesting" shoots--bang, bang, BOOOM, bang, BOOM! Oh, to answer the question some of you are thinking, yes, Grandma was really ripped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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