I arrived back home after running some errands yesterday and I spotted a red, white, and blue USPS Priority Mail box resting by our front door.
There's only one thing coming in the mail so, "I think I know what that might be!" Actually 500 of them!
Having just read on this forum about Betty's passing, I cried when I saw the return address label:
Steve, you are a hero to all of us and I hope that this brass has helped you through your toughest moments. I still can't believe how hard you worked packing it up and shipping it out!
I opened up the box with my NRA-ILA fixed blade ceramic knife and...lo and behold...gleaming brass .44 Special cases with the infamous, Idaho badger whacking, Callshot headstamp!
I headed down to the basement and fired up my reloading press. I filled the cases with 17.0 grains of 2400 (a half grain under Elmer Keith's preference) and topped them with Keith 250 grain bullets (.430 in width, just perfect for my Ruger New Model Blackhawk .44 Special).
I had an empty box of Winchester Silvertips so I figured I'd put the 20 rounds in that box with their shiny new Callshot brass. But I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't goof up and forget how hot the loads were and that the .430 bullets were for my Ruger Blackhawk and not my Colts or AWAs or Cimarron.
So I made up some custom labels on the computer and printed them out:
I don't think I'll ever make a mistake and think these are light Cowboy target loads!
Thanks so much to Callshot and everyone else for bringing this project to fruition!
And Callshot, I'm looking forward to some photos of dead Idaho critters next to some fired Callshot .44 Special brass!
-Steve
There's only one thing coming in the mail so, "I think I know what that might be!" Actually 500 of them!
Having just read on this forum about Betty's passing, I cried when I saw the return address label:
Steve, you are a hero to all of us and I hope that this brass has helped you through your toughest moments. I still can't believe how hard you worked packing it up and shipping it out!
I opened up the box with my NRA-ILA fixed blade ceramic knife and...lo and behold...gleaming brass .44 Special cases with the infamous, Idaho badger whacking, Callshot headstamp!
I headed down to the basement and fired up my reloading press. I filled the cases with 17.0 grains of 2400 (a half grain under Elmer Keith's preference) and topped them with Keith 250 grain bullets (.430 in width, just perfect for my Ruger New Model Blackhawk .44 Special).
I had an empty box of Winchester Silvertips so I figured I'd put the 20 rounds in that box with their shiny new Callshot brass. But I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't goof up and forget how hot the loads were and that the .430 bullets were for my Ruger Blackhawk and not my Colts or AWAs or Cimarron.
So I made up some custom labels on the computer and printed them out:
I don't think I'll ever make a mistake and think these are light Cowboy target loads!
Thanks so much to Callshot and everyone else for bringing this project to fruition!
And Callshot, I'm looking forward to some photos of dead Idaho critters next to some fired Callshot .44 Special brass!
-Steve
Betty was interested in the brass project all along and ask how it was going. I would read some of your comments to her and thought that she would enjoy mailing the packages out to you all. On the Tuesday that the brass came and when I showed her some, she smiled and said "am I suppose to be impressed?". She smiled and it was nice. I haven't heard from the copy-write office about that picture, but it is good you found a use for it before Jeff Hoover starts putting it up in the post office wall with all the wanted posters of hardened criminals. :wink: This project has really helped me to keep busy and not dwell on the situation at hand. I appreciate all of you and your support. Happy shooting. Steve
