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What Were You Doing On 7-10-99?
It was a Friday and I don't have any idea as to what all I did that day. Looking at the diary I use to keep, I see that we had just gotten back from a trip out East for a medical meeting my wife an daughter attended at Harrisburg. PA. I went to Gettysburg and was there the same days as the battle. We had gone on to Cape Cod to see a a childhood friend and former dentist of mine.
I did some reloading that day as I loaded at least 50 rds of 357 magnum. One box was 7.5 of 231 over a 125 gr JHP. I fired about 15 of those rds today in my Hartford carbine and they worked just fine. The other box I took to the range was dated in 86, but I didn't fire any of those.
For those who ask, reloads are good for a pretty long time.
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What's your point? To get to post 5000?
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We were modifying commercial AC designs at Trane in Clarksville TN.
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What's your point? To get to post 5000?
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21 year old reloads still work?
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I was working on code to prevent the end of the world on Y2K. I think they even expected revolvers to fail.
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I had no idea as to what my count was. It is really not that important. I went to the range for the first time this year and observed the ammo I was shooting had some age.
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Number two son had left the day before for the Marine Corps, Parris Island! I have 40 year old 45-70 reloads that are just fine! At a friends house is an ammo can of 9mm reloads I did in 1981, they go bang every time!
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We were modifying commercial AC designs at Trane in Clarksville TN.
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I was working at the Tampa branch of Trane. If you were doing any tech support, we may have spoken.
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I was deployed overseas with the US Army for the umpteenth time. No wars, no Wuhan Virus and no riots in the summer of 99 so life was pretty good.
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Glad you posted this. So many people believe reloads don't last. I just finished shooting up some that I did in 1977. Seemed to work OK 43 years later. As to what I was doing, we were getting ready to go visit my mother for her 80th birthday.
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I was eating chocolate covered doughnuts and drinking a black coffee (medium) up until 11:30 AM. Forgot what I did the rest of that day.
I still have .38 Spl wadcutters that I reloaded in the 70's.... they still shoot perfectly and super accurate (because I used to hand weigh each powder charge cause I was shooting in a league).
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An ex-programmer, I was laughing at Y2Kers, and looking forward to my retirement party scheduled for Octtober that year
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According to my diary that was a Saturday. I had dizzy spells most of the day so just took it easy. BP was 103/42
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July and August means grain harvest on Northern Plains. so, that's what i was doing, and it was 100 degrees + in the shade, with my only shade being my straw hat. combine drivers had best job, as their air conditioners always worked. truck drivers AC's rarely worked after the first week. when the wheat was dry enough we would cut til midnight. every young fella oughto go on a full season of harvest, beginning in Texas and ending in Montana, N. Dakota.
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I was cutting up deadfall hardwoods in Northern Michigan to ensure I had enough firewood to survive the winter if you Y2K geniuses calculated wrong. I also picked up a case of 9mm ammo in case WJC declared martial law and cancelled the 2000 elections when the lights went out. (Paranoia is perennial)
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Absolutely everyone should get to a chance to experience some modern harvesting.
We pulled the car over to watch a combine cutting wheat on the fourth of July around 10:30 PM in the middle of nowhere Missouri. The combine driver, a white haired old man, turned the huge machine and drove to the fence next to our car and asked if we needed help. When we told him we'd never seen a harvest, he offered a ride through the wheat.
Floating through an endless sea of wheat as it swayed in the powerful lights of the combine, was beautifully fluid poetry in motion. Time just stopped as the outside world disappeared and grain ran to infinity.
An unforgettable heavenly bounty of the plains that this city girl will never forget. It ended too soon, when the bin was filled and augered into the waiting wagon, and I was dropped back at the car and into that other reality after being blessed with one of life's surprise treats.
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I do actually know what I was doing. Father in law had recently turned 100. We were on the Chesapeake catching sea trout. According to the receipt in my work book we caught 68/sold 66 trout which weighed almost 400 pounds. Gave the 2 extra fish to the ol black fellow I had known forever at the commercial buy house. He said he liked those trout. Nicest haul of trout I ever took..I had a commercial waterman's license. Took father in law into a local restaurant called Fisherman's Inn... an old institution in the area. He was whipped. We had an expensive dinner and he had a few adult beverages. He did fall asleep on the way home. We fished and crabbed a lot and even oystered a bit. He kinda liked 'em. I on the other hand did not
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I was working on code to prevent the end of the world on Y2K. I think they even expected revolvers to fail.
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I was too! I guess we did a pretty good job!
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I remember it well. I was thinking of what I would be doing in 06-05-2020.
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Easy guess, working. In those days I took my July vacation at the end of the month. When summer finally arrives in the UP and Northern WI, LOL.
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I was working on code to prevent the end of the world on Y2K. I think they even expected revolvers to fail.
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You did a great job! Can you do something about 2020?
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All I can remember is driving from San Pedro to downtown LA at 4:30 AM so I could beat the traffic on the Harbor fwy. Going to work, City of LA Dept. of Water and Power, Heavy Construction Equipment repair. I prolly had a Breakfast Burrito from Lupi's lunch wagon about 5:00 AM, other than that nuttin' special to remember...
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OP said Friday. Do I have to fact check everything?
I usually put in some weekend hours so yeah I worked. Crazy American work ethic.
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Well I was 12. Off for the summer after 7th grade. I remember we got a new dog. Not sure what else I was up to, definitely not shooting or reloading
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Is there something significant about that particular date, we should know about?
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Yep. I'm a reloader too. And I like having 10 fingers.
Edit. The OP doesn't remember it as well as he thinks.
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You are correct and I was wrong. I thought I had checked that before I posted. Whenever I do a box of reloads, I mark the date, amt and type of powder, etc on the back of one of my old business cards. I leave the card in the box with the ammo. I don't indicate the day, just the date.
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Yep. I'm a reloader too. And I like having 10 fingers.
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...and believe me, that's ALL that was on our minds. I mean, I know there was a lot of other stuff going on but I only remember people coming to sniff our closets and check our clothing labels. It happened in October. One day we were trying to adopt and later that afternoon we had a boy.
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My wheelchair-bound friend died a year or so ago. One day back in the 90's we went to a gun shop in Galesburg, IL and got him a used S&W Model 19. Several months before he passed he sold the gun back to me. Along with it came some lead-bullet reloads I made up for him. First thing I did was shoot them off. They worked just dandy.
His days consisted of staring at CNN on the boob tube. He got all upset about Trump being president and he hated the NRA so he figured he didn't want to own a gun no more. So now I have it and I'm going to keep it and shoot it. This is how it looked shortly after I got it. You can see the dust in the grips from it just sitting all those years. Now I'm glad we also bought him an ammo can to store it in.
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But on 7-10-99 I would have been buying flowers for my wife for our 7th wedding anniversary on 7-11-99.
We're still married.
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You are correct and I was wrong. I thought I had checked that before I posted. Whenever I do a box of reloads, I mark the date, amt and type of powder, etc on the back of one of my old business cards. I leave the card in the box with the ammo. I don't indicate the day, just the date.
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It seems to me you are doing it well. The day of the week is irrelevant. And all my posts were mostly done as a jest.
Truth being. I hardly remind last week events if they weren't noted down.
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I don’t have any idea what I was doing, but would have been working. I would have only been going on 49. That seems like 21 yrs ago. Time flys.
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