There is always a first time.

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Shooterer
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There is always a first time.

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Today was the first time I ever opened a tin of pellets upside down 😳
dulcmr-man
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Not good but try this. While primarily a pistol shooter I also shoot trap on Sundays after church with the same group of guys. It's probably more a social event than it is a shooting event.

I reload for everything I shoot and have, upon occasion, dumped a partial bottle of either #8 shot or some kind of fine-grained shotgun powder all over my bench. I don't want to clean up ANY mess, but these are at the top of my frustration list.

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Rover
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Shooterer wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:35 pm Today was the first time I ever opened a tin of pellets upside down 😳
Warming up for that "wet" shooting, eh?
william
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Shooterer wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:35 pm Today was the first time I ever opened a tin of pellets upside down 😳
Was the tin upside down, or were you?
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m1963
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Ahh, the dreaded tin of spilt pellets.

My worst experience was arriving at a match to find a tin had opened inside my pistol box...at least they were all in one place.

The last match I shot at Camp Perry another person knocked their entire tin on the floor...pellets everywhere.

It's a thing...
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I instruct my students to never shoot from a full can. Always transfer about 100 pellets to an empty can and use that.
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Gravity; it’s a law!
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PaulB wrote: Mon Sep 26, 2022 3:02 pm I instruct my students to never shoot from a full can. Always transfer about 100 pellets to an empty can and use that.
Is that after spilling the first 400 pellets?
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If you never spilled a tin of pellets, you aren't shooting that long...
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