Loading for Tomorrow?? Lazy Bastards!

[lash]

Is anyone else powdering up and seating bullets tonight for tomorrow's shooting? Or am I the only one that finds myself in this position quite often?

My work weeks are busy and I still try to find a bit of time each evening to prep brass and a couple others things. Yet I often find myself finishing my loading on Friday nights anyway.

I think perhaps my wife thinks that I plan it that way. Maybe in an unconscious way that is true.

 

[Hos777]

Happens to me all the time, granted I actually have 150 rounds loaded up, so not having to do it tonight, but 99% of the time even when I think I have it all planned out I almost always find myself powdering and seating the night before a match or range session or whatever. When it comes to loading I don't like living by the saying of "if you wait until the last minute to do something, it only takes a minute," but it still happens fairly often.

 

[lash]

That's what I mean!

Though it doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes I get ahead and then something comes up and all those fresh rounds sit there for a whole week. Heavens!

 

[spife7980]

I’m usually done by Tuesday if I’m taking my time. Lately I’ve been starting early on sundays since football is over so I’m done by Monday. The giraud and autothrow are lifesavers. It use to take all week!

 

[Sheldon N]

I'm shooting my 223 trainer in tomorrow's match, just because I had a bucket of ammo ready and didn't want to load anything else.

 

[Milo 2.5]

I'm retired and load for the next day also. Finished tonight at 8 for tomorrows action. I used to be a heavy drinker, I liken loaded ammo to beer in the fridge, it's there for consumption, temptation too high and I am weak.

 

[MtnCreek]

During deer season my son got up early to hunt and really wanted to take a fairly recently purchased tikka 6.5 Creedmoor that I didn't have any ammo loaded for. I loaded him 3 rds that morning.

 

[pmclaine]

During deer season my son got up early to hunt and really wanted to take a fairly recently purchased tikka 6.5 Creedmoor that I didn't have any ammo loaded for. I loaded him 3 rds that morning.

Did he return two unused?

 

[MtnCreek]

Brought back all three. Used one a couple days later. 140 amax is ugly on game.

 

[lash]

This doesn't mean that I have no ammo at any given day. I have .223, .308, 9mm, .45 and more piled higher and deeper.

It's just that what I shoot every weekend tends to get depleted quickly.

And yes...I have occasionally found myself seating bullets at 5:00 AM on Saturday morning before...so sue me!

 

[demolitionman]

I typically will do my reloading from 6 am to 8 am Saturday or Sunday mornings before the family gets up. Once they are up the ability for me to concentrate on reloading goes out the window....... so I set the alarm clock and do it early am. the day before or after a shoot.

 

[Rangemaster]

Well, I was suppose to do mine this morning. Match was called off due the weather. I always prep the brass during the week, and reload at 4am the day of the match.

 

[goinghunting]

With 4 young boys between 8 and 1yr it always ends up being late night or early morning sessions before/after the crew is awake. Usually last minute before I realize I might have time to shoot the next day...

 

[OH58DViper]

I bought 200 test tubes and go to my gun den when I need a break. Often, I’ll say I have to drop a loaf and go down to process brass ha. I throw charges and stack them away in test tubes so when it comes time to reload I can just pour them in. Do what I can when I can.

Life was so much simpler before my wife pushed a small human out of my favorite recreational area.....

 

[Carl_Ross]

Used to be 90% of my loading was after my wife went to bed the night before a match, or occasionally the morning of the match. I usually don’t sleep very well before a match, due to excitement and knowing I have to get up early. Combine that with getting to bed a few hours late every time and I was seriously tired for many matches. While it may have effected my performance some, I’d notice it most when driving a few hours back from a long day of shooting, totally exhausted. Lots of caffeine required!

My worst loading procrastination was probably before the Karstetter match a couple of years ago. I was supposed to start driving at 11:00 am, and I think I started loading at 10:00! Ran my progressive on “full auto” and loaded 200 rounds from unprocessed brass in about an hour.

Recently I’ve been working from home, and just do batches of loading here and there throughout the day. Turns out I enjoy it a lot more that way!

 

[Mike_in_FL]

It happens to me all the time. I have great plans for starting on a Monday night to have everything ready for the following weekend. Most of the time the trip to the range gets postponed until Sunday so I can do my reloading on Saturday. This became more complicated last year when I worked 6 days a week for the majority of it.

Prepping brass or even FL sizing during the week has never been a problem. It's the clearing of my rather small bench and getting setup for whatever caliber I'm doing is time consuming for me and finding the time without distractions from the family unit. I have to finish my shack in the backyard this year...

 

[lash]

Mike,
That is also a factor for me. I have to do my loading in the garage along with everything else out there. I do not have a nice dedicated loading room/bench/setup. I have places that these things can be done, but it's not all so easy. I'm not complaining, just saying that's how it is. It makes loading up a couple hundred rounds more of a task that has to be planned, a step at a time.

 

[spife7980]

Yall are slackers, I shot saturday but I already have some brass prepped so I was all loaded up for next week before CBS Sunday Morning was over with!

 

[pmclaine]

You watch CBS Sunday Morning?

If ever there was a sign you need another caliber.........

 

[spife7980]

You watch CBS Sunday Morning?

If ever there was a sign you need another caliber.........

I like the stories and it goes straight into Texas Country Reporter


Ill get another caliber when I can settle on loads for what I have now, testing this new fandangled rl16 in the 6xc to see if I want to ditch h4350 for it

 

[lash]

Yall are slackers, I shot saturday but I already have some brass prepped so I was all loaded up for next week before CBS Sunday Morning was over with!

Why yes, yes we are. I think that was the whole point of this thread, if indeed there was a point.

 

[Mike_in_FL]

Why yes, yes we are. I think that was the whole point of this thread, if indeed there was a point.

In the 20th century I was promised flying cars and shit by now. Is it too much to ask for some voice activated automated reloading?

 

[lash]

Exactly! I mean get with the program already Technology!

 

[Fig]

I'm laundry bitch in my house, and my reloading room (furnace room) is next to the laundry room. It's usually Sunday or Monday night I'll stay up when everyone goes to sleep, do everyone's laundry, and hand load between loads of wash. Sometimes I'll stay up till the wee hours if I'm on a roll and into it. This doesn't always work out though, so I keep 500 pieces for my comp rifle. I try to keep them all loaded, but I have enough to shoot two matches between loading if I can't make time for some reason.

If it's all spent it's a lot harder to get motivated to load 500 than it is when I have 200 to do...

 

[lash]

^^^^ Now that is good practice. We could learn from that, given half a chance.