Challenge accepted

[Swingerguy]

another thought that I had was this would make a great excuse to get into reloading, I could get into reloading and salvage the components.

I think every excuse is a good excuse to get into reloading, but I don’t know if you can salvage any of these components for anything but .38 s&w. I don’t have a .38 s&w, but if what Grimlock says in post 13 is accurate then you may be SOL.