uncle jimbo
Well-Known Member
So this morning I was out in the reloading room which is in the garage. I was finishing up the 38 spl I needed to load. I do them in stages , size/deprime, expand the mouth, prime, charge with powder, set the bullets on top of the case, and then seat the bullet. The powder charging and bullet seating are done in lots of 50 because that is what the tray holds. I tell you this because of what happened and you can see why it happened.
So anyway, it is getting the time that the flies are looking for a place to hole up where is is warmer and I had a couple of them in the room that were acting just like flies. Buzzing around my face and landing on me, just generally driving me crazy. So I am sitting there putting the bullets into the case mouth and one of the flies lands on a case that didn't have a bullet sat in it yet, and crawls down inside the case. I see this and with out thinking about it, I set a bullet down on the case and trap the fly in the case with the powder and then proceed to finish the seating the bullets and dropping them into the ammo can.
I never thought to mark the one that had the fly in it, so I don't know which one it is.
Because it will take a while for me to shoot them all up, I am sure the fly will be dead when I do shoot it.
Which bring me to why I took the time to post this and wasting your time reading it. When I do shoot it, is there something I will need to get special to clean the fly guts out of my revolver. Are fly guts corrosive and will they pit the barrel? Or will regular powder solvent/ gun cleaner do the job.
Or will the hot gases created by the burning powder cremate the fly and expel the ashes out the barrel and regular cleaning will be sufficient?
Paul,
P.S. I did get the 600+ 38s and one fly loading finished today.
So anyway, it is getting the time that the flies are looking for a place to hole up where is is warmer and I had a couple of them in the room that were acting just like flies. Buzzing around my face and landing on me, just generally driving me crazy. So I am sitting there putting the bullets into the case mouth and one of the flies lands on a case that didn't have a bullet sat in it yet, and crawls down inside the case. I see this and with out thinking about it, I set a bullet down on the case and trap the fly in the case with the powder and then proceed to finish the seating the bullets and dropping them into the ammo can.
I never thought to mark the one that had the fly in it, so I don't know which one it is.
Because it will take a while for me to shoot them all up, I am sure the fly will be dead when I do shoot it.
Which bring me to why I took the time to post this and wasting your time reading it. When I do shoot it, is there something I will need to get special to clean the fly guts out of my revolver. Are fly guts corrosive and will they pit the barrel? Or will regular powder solvent/ gun cleaner do the job.
Or will the hot gases created by the burning powder cremate the fly and expel the ashes out the barrel and regular cleaning will be sufficient?
Paul,
P.S. I did get the 600+ 38s and one fly loading finished today.
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