Rustydust
Active member
Just wondering that's all.
There is no telling how many times I have yanked the handle on my Rock Chucker over the last 43 years. Plenty ammo I have made to wear out as many barrels as I have over the last four decades. Even shot out a .44 Magnum barrel on my Super Blackhawk and I did that twenty years ago.
And have spent most of today sorting and loading too as it was a bit too windy for whistlepig shooting so I loaded me up 200 rounds of .17 Remington ammo and came in to fix me a bite to eat and will go back out again in a few minutes to crank out some more.
You know, it used to be exciting loading up ammo. Taking those big empty .44 Mag cases and turning them into big loaded .44 Mag ammo. Go out and shoot them all up and repeat. Good times. Now? Well I dont know. I still love to shoot (not that boomer .44 much anymore) and if I am going to shoot then I have to load so load I do. And yeah- a 50 round or better yet 100 round box of polymer tipped bullets in polished brass sure does look nice, dont it? Yes it does. Sure does.
So how many of you still enjoy cranking them out? A pleasure? A joy? Or possibly just a loathsome task being necessary in able to shoot your favorite thunder stick? And if not quite as much fun as it used to be then what do you do to make it better? Good question, no?
There is no telling how many times I have yanked the handle on my Rock Chucker over the last 43 years. Plenty ammo I have made to wear out as many barrels as I have over the last four decades. Even shot out a .44 Magnum barrel on my Super Blackhawk and I did that twenty years ago.
And have spent most of today sorting and loading too as it was a bit too windy for whistlepig shooting so I loaded me up 200 rounds of .17 Remington ammo and came in to fix me a bite to eat and will go back out again in a few minutes to crank out some more.
You know, it used to be exciting loading up ammo. Taking those big empty .44 Mag cases and turning them into big loaded .44 Mag ammo. Go out and shoot them all up and repeat. Good times. Now? Well I dont know. I still love to shoot (not that boomer .44 much anymore) and if I am going to shoot then I have to load so load I do. And yeah- a 50 round or better yet 100 round box of polymer tipped bullets in polished brass sure does look nice, dont it? Yes it does. Sure does.
So how many of you still enjoy cranking them out? A pleasure? A joy? Or possibly just a loathsome task being necessary in able to shoot your favorite thunder stick? And if not quite as much fun as it used to be then what do you do to make it better? Good question, no?