Had a Unique feeling today

[Elric]

I had picked up a Plano 4 shelf unit over at Menards... Got home, moved things about, and started to load up the new shelves with new brass... Got done with that, and saw the old, black 12lb jug of 700x against the wall. Ho hum, either empty or part full of decapped 209s from the heady days of woodcock hunting in the late 70s.... Both of the black plastic fold up bail handles had snapped off. Grumble. Grabbed a standard screwdriver and a round file to jimmy up the flexible spout out of it's well. Opened it up and smelled the heady smell of good powder.... About 6 pounds left. Memories of pumping the MEC 600jr handle a hundred or so times a week to get ready for the weekends up north.

Nowdays lead shot is too costly, cheaper to buy flats...

 

[Brad]

Isn’t that a 700X feeling, not a Unique feeling?

 

[Elric]

How many times have you had a 700x feeling? I thought about using 700x in the title, but the memories associated to 700x always remind me of reloading for bird hunting...

 

[Brad]

Not even one X much less 700X?

 

[Ian]

1X is a Spicer yoke part number suffix for "half round" U-joint saddle. Been teying to work that one into a conversation for years.

Smell associations are cool, though, every time I catch a good whiff of 3031 or 4320 smoke it takes me back to brisk fall mornings bumming in the woods with my high school buddy, carrying 30-30s stoked with bullets we'd cast to go blast targets of opportunity.

 

[Hawk]

In the second grade, my teacher asked me what was so special about going Dove hunting with my Dad.
I said, well for one thing, I'm with my Dad and the other thing is the smell of burnt powder when you shoot.

 

[Brad]

Nothing quite like the smell of a just fired shotgun shell. Rifles and pistols don’t have it like a shotgun.

 

[Hawk]

That's the truth, fired shotguns always remind me of Dad.

 

[fiver]

get you some paper hulls melt a little carnuba and paraffin to fix the case mouth/crimp area and load them with Green-Dot.
you'll have 20 old guys standing around sniffing the air behind you while you shoot trap targets.

700-X always was a little to acrid smelling for me when it burned.

 

[waco]

The smell of spent .22lr cases always make we think of shooting with my Father as a child.

 

[Gary]

Dove hunting as a kid with a single shot Stevens 16ga. The aroma of a spent shotshell is still a fabulous and instant memory of Dad and brothers and oddly enough Thanksgiving Day (we always went Quail hunting on the farm after dinner). Always collected the empties (pretty easy to do with a single shot) and the first fired was always brought to the nose for a smell sampling.

 

[Hawk]

Yep, it's amazing what memories are triggered by smell. Hunting with Dad, my grandmother's kitchen, fishing with my grandfather are only some of the many.

 

[fiver]

it's funny how smells can instantly take you back to a place in time with a picture in your head.

a strong rose smell moves me back to san Jose in 1969.
lukewarm half burnt coffee with too much sugar takes me to the Holliday gun club Ca. 1974.
old, old stale cigarette smoke takes me to my Grandma's house.
the smell of air coming from a car tire and leaded gasoline both take me to Milpitas California in 1970-71.
burn your tongue watered down chalky like hot coco [like you get from a vending machine] takes me to a rainy night in San Francisco ca. 1972.

 

[zymguy]

lots of cast loads for 700x