How many of your wife's reload with you? - Page 2

Dennisp · December 23, 2008, 10:17 AM

I have a wife and three daughters that enjoy scrapbooking. I don't want to scrap book any more then I want them reloading with me. The wife wants nothing to do with shooting, and I like it that way. The sign posted on the outside of my reloading room. "He Man Woman Haters Club"

zxcvbob · December 23, 2008, 10:29 AM

I don't ask my wife how much she spends on yarn, and she doesn't ask me how much I spend on gunpowder. (I suspect she spends more)

grymster2007 · December 23, 2008, 11:18 AM

Mrs. Grymster made one cartridge. Took like 20 minutes....

me - insert the case into the press.
her - you mean this thing?
me - yeah, that thing.
her - it don't fit!
me - yeah, it fits.
her - oh, there it goes. when do we put the bomb powder in?
me - gunpowder dear, gunpowder... we'll do that in a minute. pull the handle.
her - this one?
me - yeah that one.
her - OK... now do we put in the bomb powder?....

cchardwick · December 23, 2008, 12:42 PM

Bomb Powder LOL. That cracks me up.

DaveInPA · December 23, 2008, 01:01 PM

My fiance was asleep this morning and I told her I was headed to the gun shop to get some stuff, and she rolls over and looks at me with her cute tired eyes and says "get me some Varget. I'm almost all out".

I love that woman!

Ozzieman · December 23, 2008, 06:47 PM

"get me some Varget. I'm almost all out".
WoW! does she have a sister???
Darn! Never mind, I’m married.

**Shane Tuttle** · December 23, 2008, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dennisp

The wife wants nothing to do with shooting, and I like it that way.

I feel badly for you. I don't know you from Joe the Plumber, but I just can't fathom this situation with us. She doesn't chomp at the bit asking when we get to reload next or anything. But if she's done with her stuff, she's always asking if I need help. Always nice to have a reloadin' partner. Glad I got a second stool for an early Christmas present...

FLRich · December 23, 2008, 10:55 PM

Quote:
WoW! does she have a sister???
Darn! Never mind, I’m married.

Heck, that won't stop me I'd move to Utah for that!

IllinoisCoyoteHunter · December 23, 2008, 11:33 PM

No wife here!!! Single man = lots of guns! My dog gives me company when I reload and he never talks back!

pmeisel · December 30, 2008, 10:26 AM

Wife will occasionally help me with the brass. But my daughter used to help, when she still lived at home.....

Sons never showed much interest until recently... I am teaching one tomorrow.

HeroHog · December 30, 2008, 11:32 AM

My wife helps and does a great job.

AF_Reloader · December 30, 2008, 12:08 PM

The wife isn't exactly thrilled about the reloading stuff, and she flat out told me that she'd leave me if I started casting my own bullets.

Of course, hamming it up while reloading (like cringing in fear every time I pull my MEC Grabber handle, like it's something the bomb squad should take care of) doesn't help much. Neither does spilling spent primers out of that flimsy little tray, or accidently scattering brass shavings all over the floor.

She does ask lots of questions, though. I'm pretty sure she could run my CaseMaster, trimmer, and powder scale if I needed her to. We've only been married 4 years, so maybe by year 10 she'll be running the MEC while I reload .270s.

TATER · December 30, 2008, 12:10 PM

My Pookie knows her way around the reloading room.
We do prep-work together But, we never reload together.
She is well organized and I have the utmost confidence
when I pull the trigger on anything she loads.

.45 Vet · December 30, 2008, 12:18 PM

Well, my wife will deliver coffee every once in a while...

Kjeil · December 30, 2008, 12:21 PM

We're just getting started but so far my wife has been the quality control department, especially for case prep.

It's been nice to refocus her scrutiny off of me and on to something else

powerboatr · December 30, 2008, 08:01 PM

my wife helps me, and i have trained her so she can fill in for me when i am doing homework

Clark · December 31, 2008, 11:49 PM

The first time my wife pulled the trigger on a rifle, it was a 17 Rem in 1984 and she killed a prairie dog.

That was before we had kids.

She will cook venison if I put it in the freezer, but after 30 some years, she has her hobbies and I have mine.

TheNatureBoy · December 31, 2008, 11:51 PM

Surely you jest?

FatWhiteMan · January 1, 2009, 12:37 AM

Help me reload? I have to wait until she goes to bed to browse a reloading forum. Nope. She wants no part of reloading or shooting.

Old Gaffer · January 1, 2009, 11:41 AM

DW doesn't help me reload...yet. But I was reloading the other day when she came in and said that she could see how reloading could be pretty Zen.

We both agree that shooting is about the most Zen thing we can do (sight alignment, breathing and trigger control, etc) and she saw the same controlled motion in case feeding, primer setting..., etc.

I suspect that at some point she'll want to try it - especially since I bought her a Beretta Cx4 Storm in .45 ACP for Christmas and there's no way I'm keeping her in factory ammo for that thing

Right now all I'm reloading for is .45 LSWC for bullseye shooting, using a bastardized set up of two Lee Pro 1000s. Once she finishes her doctorate and gets working again, that's gonna turn into a Dillon 550 or better.

All the best,
Rob

VaFisher · January 1, 2009, 05:43 PM

My wife helps sometimes and very good at it if I say so myself. She grew up with a father that was a very active reloader and shooter so he got her started when she was growing up and she still remembers most of the time she spent with Dad. She has been a good for me in several ways when it comes to reloading and shooting simply because she likes all of it.

Reopropf · January 1, 2009, 07:36 PM

I'm guilty too..

I use wife to occasionally turn off tumbler. More importantly, I use her for quality control, counting and packaging. She will at times run every bullet thru caliber guage, and load into a 100count boxes for session counts and ulitmate storage.

She's a good sport and will maintain contract with her indefinitely.

Peter

SwampYankee · January 1, 2009, 08:00 PM

When my wife and I were first dating, my father and I took her shooting. She was pretty good with an AR-15 and she had a lot of fun. Then we had kids and now she hates guns. I did manage to entice her into shooting my plain jane 10/22 in the backyard with her girlfriend this summer. They both had a lot of fun. I old her she needed to know how to use it to keep the coyotes at bay. But now she has reverted to hating guns again. They stay in the basement, along with my reloading bench. My 3 and 5 year old love reloading, however. So there are no mistakes with power or primers I only let them help in the resizing and depriming, but they love it. When my wife asked my 3 year old daughter what she wanted to get me for Christmas, she said "a big gun".

Inspector3711 · January 1, 2009, 08:33 PM

Hahahhahaha! Thats funny! The thought of my wife having anything to do with my firearms hobbies is hysterical! Maybe someday, but everytime I try to get her interested I get a look comparable to Jack Nicholsen playing a crazy person!

Dustin0 · January 2, 2009, 11:50 AM

I wish my wife would help with the reloading. But then again after being together about 2 years now she has only put 2 rounds down range. Iam hoping she will try my new 22 next weekend.

December 23, 2008, 10:17 AM	#26
Dennisp Member Join Date: December 6, 2008 Location: Victor, Montana Posts: 18	I have a wife and three daughters that enjoy scrapbooking. I don't want to scrap book any more then I want them reloading with me. The wife wants nothing to do with shooting, and I like it that way. The sign posted on the outside of my reloading room. "He Man Woman Haters Club" __________________ Unless you're the lead dog, the view never changes http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e..._firetruck.jpg

December 23, 2008, 10:29 AM	#27
zxcvbob Senior Member Join Date: December 20, 2007 Location: S.E. Minnesota Posts: 4,720	I don't ask my wife how much she spends on yarn, and she doesn't ask me how much I spend on gunpowder. (I suspect she spends more) __________________ "Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant. It just makes me want to set myself on fire!" —Lucille Bluth

December 23, 2008, 11:18 AM	#28
grymster2007 Senior Member Join Date: May 22, 2007 Location: In the oak studded hills near Napa Posts: 2,203	Mrs. Grymster made one cartridge. Took like 20 minutes.... me - insert the case into the press. her - you mean this thing? me - yeah, that thing. her - it don't fit! me - yeah, it fits. her - oh, there it goes. when do we put the bomb powder in? me - gunpowder dear, gunpowder... we'll do that in a minute. pull the handle. her - this one? me - yeah that one. her - OK... now do we put in the bomb powder?.... __________________ grym

December 23, 2008, 11:33 PM	#34
IllinoisCoyoteHunter Senior Member Join Date: December 23, 2008 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 1,527	No wife here!!! Single man = lots of guns! My dog gives me company when I reload and he never talks back! __________________ ~~IllinoisCoyoteHunter~~ ~NRA LIFE MEMBER~ ~NRA CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR~

December 30, 2008, 10:26 AM	#35
pmeisel Senior Member Join Date: December 30, 2008 Location: WV Posts: 271	Wife will occasionally help me with the brass. But my daughter used to help, when she still lived at home..... Sons never showed much interest until recently... I am teaching one tomorrow. __________________ Paul

December 23, 2008, 12:42 PM	#29
cchardwick Senior Member Join Date: September 26, 2008 Location: Colorado Posts: 574	Bomb Powder LOL. That cracks me up.

December 23, 2008, 01:01 PM	#30
DaveInPA Senior Member Join Date: January 20, 2008 Location: Berks County, PA Posts: 1,106	My fiance was asleep this morning and I told her I was headed to the gun shop to get some stuff, and she rolls over and looks at me with her cute tired eyes and says "get me some Varget. I'm almost all out". I love that woman!

December 23, 2008, 06:47 PM	#31
Ozzieman Senior Member Join Date: December 14, 2004 Location: Northern Indiana Posts: 6,117	"get me some Varget. I'm almost all out". WoW! does she have a sister??? Darn! Never mind, I’m married.

December 23, 2008, 10:55 PM	#33
FLRich Member Join Date: July 21, 2005 Location: Republik of the Amerikas Posts: 32	Quote: WoW! does she have a sister??? Darn! Never mind, I’m married. Heck, that won't stop me I'd move to Utah for that!

December 30, 2008, 11:32 AM	#36
HeroHog Senior Member Join Date: February 16, 2008 Location: Shreveport, LA Posts: 486	My wife helps and does a great job. __________________ Speedy AKA: Hero Hog, Dr. Speed, "That fat, old, balding, Grey-bearded gimpy guy" *I don't have NEAR enough ammo on hand. `Nuff said.*

December 30, 2008, 12:08 PM	#37
AF_Reloader Member Join Date: February 18, 2008 Location: Beale AFB, CA Posts: 73	The wife isn't exactly thrilled about the reloading stuff, and she flat out told me that she'd leave me if I started casting my own bullets. Of course, hamming it up while reloading (like cringing in fear every time I pull my MEC Grabber handle, like it's something the bomb squad should take care of) doesn't help much. Neither does spilling spent primers out of that flimsy little tray, or accidently scattering brass shavings all over the floor. She does ask lots of questions, though. I'm pretty sure she could run my CaseMaster, trimmer, and powder scale if I needed her to. We've only been married 4 years, so maybe by year 10 she'll be running the MEC while I reload .270s. __________________ My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. "...that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, —Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!"

December 30, 2008, 12:10 PM	#38
TATER Senior Member Join Date: November 19, 2002 Location: Mississippi Posts: 963	My Pookie knows her way around the reloading room. We do prep-work together But, we never reload together. She is well organized and I have the utmost confidence when I pull the trigger on anything she loads.

December 30, 2008, 12:18 PM	#39
.45 Vet Senior Member Join Date: May 21, 2004 Location: Western Penn. Posts: 387	Well, my wife will deliver coffee every once in a while... __________________ For those who've never fought for it, the price of freedom shall never be known...

December 30, 2008, 12:21 PM	#40
Kjeil Member Join Date: December 29, 2008 Posts: 32	We're just getting started but so far my wife has been the quality control department, especially for case prep. It's been nice to refocus her scrutiny off of me and on to something else __________________ Since everbody asks: "Kjeil" is pronounced "Kyle" "If thou hast not a sword, sell thy cloak and buy one" Luke 22:36

December 30, 2008, 08:01 PM	#41
powerboatr Member Join Date: December 3, 2008 Location: North East Texas Posts: 42	my wife helps me, and i have trained her so she can fill in for me when i am doing homework __________________ Retired Navy, living on a 365 day paid vacation full time grad student now using a dillon square deal reloader

December 31, 2008, 11:49 PM	#42
Clark Senior Member Join Date: December 4, 1999 Location: WA, the ever blue state Posts: 4,678	The first time my wife pulled the trigger on a rifle, it was a 17 Rem in 1984 and she killed a prairie dog. That was before we had kids. She will cook venison if I put it in the freezer, but after 30 some years, she has her hobbies and I have mine.

December 31, 2008, 11:51 PM	#43
TheNatureBoy Senior Member Join Date: September 6, 2007 Posts: 1,204	Surely you jest?

January 1, 2009, 12:37 AM	#44
FatWhiteMan Member Join Date: June 10, 2007 Location: Appalachia Posts: 96	Help me reload? I have to wait until she goes to bed to browse a reloading forum. Nope. She wants no part of reloading or shooting.

January 1, 2009, 11:41 AM	#45
Old Gaffer Senior Member Join Date: December 20, 2006 Location: Ft. Washington, MD Posts: 288	DW doesn't help me reload...yet. But I was reloading the other day when she came in and said that she could see how reloading could be pretty Zen. We both agree that shooting is about the most Zen thing we can do (sight alignment, breathing and trigger control, etc) and she saw the same controlled motion in case feeding, primer setting..., etc. I suspect that at some point she'll want to try it - especially since I bought her a Beretta Cx4 Storm in .45 ACP for Christmas and there's no way I'm keeping her in factory ammo for that thing Right now all I'm reloading for is .45 LSWC for bullseye shooting, using a bastardized set up of two Lee Pro 1000s. Once she finishes her doctorate and gets working again, that's gonna turn into a Dillon 550 or better. All the best, Rob

January 1, 2009, 05:43 PM	#46
VaFisher Senior Member Join Date: January 24, 2006 Posts: 596	My wife helps sometimes and very good at it if I say so myself. She grew up with a father that was a very active reloader and shooter so he got her started when she was growing up and she still remembers most of the time she spent with Dad. She has been a good for me in several ways when it comes to reloading and shooting simply because she likes all of it.

January 1, 2009, 07:36 PM	#47
Reopropf Junior Member Join Date: August 17, 2008 Posts: 3	I'm guilty too.. I use wife to occasionally turn off tumbler. More importantly, I use her for quality control, counting and packaging. She will at times run every bullet thru caliber guage, and load into a 100count boxes for session counts and ulitmate storage. She's a good sport and will maintain contract with her indefinitely. Peter

January 1, 2009, 08:00 PM	#48
SwampYankee Registration in progress Join Date: November 1, 2008 Location: I can be found on a number of other forums. Posts: 1,333	When my wife and I were first dating, my father and I took her shooting. She was pretty good with an AR-15 and she had a lot of fun. Then we had kids and now she hates guns. I did manage to entice her into shooting my plain jane 10/22 in the backyard with her girlfriend this summer. They both had a lot of fun. I old her she needed to know how to use it to keep the coyotes at bay. But now she has reverted to hating guns again. They stay in the basement, along with my reloading bench. My 3 and 5 year old love reloading, however. So there are no mistakes with power or primers I only let them help in the resizing and depriming, but they love it. When my wife asked my 3 year old daughter what she wanted to get me for Christmas, she said "a big gun".

January 1, 2009, 08:33 PM	#49
Inspector3711 Senior Member Join Date: February 9, 2008 Location: Puget Sound Washington Posts: 1,553	Hahahhahaha! Thats funny! The thought of my wife having anything to do with my firearms hobbies is hysterical! Maybe someday, but everytime I try to get her interested I get a look comparable to Jack Nicholsen playing a crazy person! __________________ "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." The Dalai Llama (5/15/01, The Seattle Times) "That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." George Orwell

January 2, 2009, 11:50 AM	#50
Dustin0 Senior Member Join Date: May 15, 2008 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 701	I wish my wife would help with the reloading. But then again after being together about 2 years now she has only put 2 rounds down range. Iam hoping she will try my new 22 next weekend.