Being Deaf Activities

[Griff]

A full month in and I'm still fighting this ear infection in my right ear... I'm deaf in my left, and this is the current condition on my right. It'll ease up for a few days, and I think... excellent, my hearing aids can go back in. Nope! In just a few short hours, 8-12 usually, it's back to hurting from the pressure. Yesterday, I had planned on attending a Wild Bunch mate, but after finding that I only had about a ½ GI can of 45 Auto, I decided to prep some brass. Since I also had less than ten 45 Colt (no BP rounds) and only a couple hundred C45S in BP, and less than 20 with smokeless, and NO .44-40 at all, (which is what my Lightning is chambered in)! So I decided I better decapped and wet tumbled about 300 45 Auto, and about 200 .44-40. The C45S & 45 Colt, I'd done on Friday. After getting the 45 Auto in the tumbler, I went to decap the .44-40 and found I couldn't find my shell holder. Went to the nearest toy store and bought a Lee. Which is appropriate as I use a Less Handloader to do all my decapping. I've modified mine to dump spent primers without having to pull the shell holder off. (I still need to spend some time with the dremel to smooth it out inside, but it works well enough):

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The .44-40 decapped brass:

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The deafness means I don't hear the tumbler rattling around, the brass and stainless pins in it's plastic drum, and I can watch my favorite You-Tube channels with the closed captioning on and the volume turned up to levels annoying to normal humans.

[JimT]

Every dark cloud has a silver lining ..............

[AJMD429]

Every dark cloud has a silver lining ..............

or....in this case.....every thunderous cloud has it's quiet spots....