It's Hell !
 

Last couple times I've gone looking for something in my loading room I've found stuff I forgot I had . Today I was digging out stuff to load a thousand or so 20 gauge and found the bag of SP-20 wads I thought I had . Then when I was looking for the CB knockoff wads of the WAA20 I found another 500 or so once fired WIN AA 20 hulls . So then I go looking for another 8 pounder of Unique and my 8 pounder of W572 and I find a couple pounds of SR4756 I didn't even know I had .

Looks like I'll try and do 1,000 20 gauge 7/8 ounce shells half with #8's and half with 7 1/2's . Plan to do about the same thing with 16 gauge ounce loads pushed with SR4756 in old AA hulls using SP-16 wads .

Then if I feel good after the fact I wanna load 500 20 gauge 1 ounce loads mostly with #6's but a few boxes with #7 1/2's .

Also wanna load 200 8 gauge shells maybe not before Hausemann's but atleast before Koneski's .

Sounds like the reloading room could do with some or-gan-i-za-tion. :rotf:

I tried about a year ago by obtaining six large sets of Plano plastic shelves about forty inches across twenty four inches deep and four shelves . They’re now all full and now have more “good deals” stacked on the floor . It’s a vicious never ending cycle :rotf::rotf: I took my 20 gauge 9000 in to the shop in town today . My two progressive 16 gauge loaders were already there . But it’s my ambition at the moment to load a thousand 20’s and a thousand 16’s before I leave for Hausemann’s in early June . No don’t plan on shooting that many there but it seems I shoot those two gauges the most anymore . I do however wanna load 50-100 more 8 gauge to bring along to PA .

I was at a "place" several years ago to where I could lock myself in my shop, arrange everything properly, and knock out 700+ an hour on my 9000G progressive. If you do everything right that ambition ought to be achievable, easily.

When I was eaten up with the skeet/trap thing I had the four Ponsness Warren 800C’s bolted down on a big old oak conference table . Many Thursday or Friday nights before I went to a shoot I’d go in and knock out 150 410’s a 150 28’s and 300 20’s for the weekend . And of course if it were a trap shoot 600 or so 12’s . I’ve got MEC 9000’s now for all five gauges but I still like the PW loaders a good bit more . For me now the biggest obstacle is overcoming the people that appear in the back of the shop while I’m loading and distract me .

Got started today well tried to atleast . But I had plenty friends/visitors to take me off track :rotf:

FWIW I loaded perhaps 20 shells with Chedditte 209’s because I have 10,000 of them . Anyway there was no difference what so ever getting them to seat from the WIN 209’s . By my calipers there’s less then .001 difference .

Cheddites are all I am loading right now.

And, a lock will keep those "visitors" out. Serious reloading time ain't the time to be hospitable.

I bought more than 30,000 209 primers last year about 20,000 were WIN and 10,000 Cheddittes . Kinda hard not to talk in the back of the shop since it’s a working gun shop . But I’ve loaded shotgun shells for 40+ years . Now I’m down to I think 9,000 WIN’s and the Cheddittes . I do have the guy up front watching out for WIN 209’s at our distributers . When and if he finds any I told him to get me up to three sleeves .

Incidently there were a bunch of misinformed folks around home that claimed once you used Cheddittes the normal three would fall out . I've not found that to be the case as I a few months back loaded a pair of 410 hulls with WIN primers shot them , then loaded with Chedditte fired them and then loaded the third time with WIN and had no problems .

I just came back from a birthday party shoot at a local hunt club. $14.50/box. No thanks - I'll shoot my reloads and save the birthday boy the cost. Others bought bottles of expensive booze - I shot my reloads.

A friend picked me up a 100 pack of 20's at Wally World this week $25 . These were Winchesters on the cheap Universal hull , they have two things going for them 1 they go bang and 2 I can pitch the hulls :rotf:

Craig, I have not had any reloading problems either between the Win and Cheddite primers. Got 5000 cheddite and 5000 Win, will use the cheddite up first. I am not able to shoot weekly like many of you so should last me a good while. I picked up 4 100 packs of those Win Universal 20 ga last night at Wally world--glad the wife made me stop now.

I've got a good friend who's buisness is in the next county over and they have a Wally World so each morning he stops by to see if they have shells and if they do he gets his allotted three 100 round boxes . He sent me a text the other day that he had gotten me a 100 of the WIN 20 7 1/2's . I'd been happier if he'd said he had a few more but ya gotta start somewhere .

I loaded 500 20's with 8's over the weekend . See if I can't knock out 500 or so with 7 1/2's monday . Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have the 16's takem care of as well . Then monday and tuesday before heading to PA I'll try and load a 100 8 gauge 7 1/2's .

As to the primer thing after not seeing anything detrimental with the Cheddites I told the guy at the shop that watches out for reloading components for himself and I to keep an eye out for WIN and or Cheddite 209's . If memory serves I picked up 1000 Federal 209A's from someone in the last year or so . I may dig them out and use them up this week .