Thanks Bonz I split a 28gage barrel because I left the powder in the mec loader. I don't like learning the hard way. Thanks to cast boolits I can learn from other peoples knowledge, and I do every day.
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Thanks Bonz I split a 28gage barrel because I left the powder in the mec loader. I don't like learning the hard way. Thanks to cast boolits I can learn from other peoples knowledge, and I do every day.
I've never had more then a sticky bolt when working up a load and getting close to the max. If you are blowing up guns, you really have no business behind a reloading press.
Secondary Explosion Effect.
Rick
Felix said he witnessed a SEE and posted about why they happen. Search should find it.
Use this link . . .
Google Custom Search of CastBoolits
And use these search terms . . .
Secondary Explosion Effect felix
And there are several pages of posts on SEE where felix replied.
Rick
I'm so glad that I have a great Dad who stressed safety during reloading and shooting.
I let people shoot my reloads out of my guns only. There are some people that I have shot and reloaded with in the past that I will shoot their reloads out of their guns. Other people whom I do not know and their level of knowledge in reloading I will not shoot.
I let friends shoot my reloads. But I reload them for their guns and have them leave the gun with me so I can work up a load for it.
I posted this back in 2011. It was a double charge!
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...charge-will-do
I was reluctant to admit to such a terrible mistake, but received NO flack, just cuddos for the courage it took to admit it. I could have kept silent, nobody would have known. One forum member even found a defect in his revolver that might have caused an off-center (not completely indexed), firing because of a too short cylinder hand.
It's a long read, but well worth the effort.
It's not always a stuck bullet/boolit or bore obstruction that causes a KA-boom!
I have, since then, done batch loading for any round where there is a remote possibility of a double charge allowing a boolit to seat and chamber.
I have a dillon 650 that will NOT allow a double charge to happen. The press will not double charge, and the dillon powder cop die will tell you if the charge is light or over by less than a grain.
My lee 4 hole cast iron turret is used as a single stage with loading blocks with the charge levels inspected for all cases at once before seating boolits. I DO use it in auto advance mode for loads that can use the disc measure, and powders that will overflow the case if double charged. I also use a small magnetic LED light that shines directly into the case to verify there's powder present to avoid a no powder squib.
Well i had one explode in my hand, but not due to a barrel blockage, best I can figure (with help of some great individuals on this board) was that the extended ejector, and jammed round resulted in the primer being struck while the slide was almost all the way back and my hand was over the ejection port.
Here is the link to the discussion, I think page 3, post #50 is pictures of the case and my hand.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...visit-required
I had a case head let go in a Mini 14 back in the early 80's using a starting load. I had been using Hornady 55gr wcan. I tried a Sierra 55gr with a starting load and on the third shot I didn't see a case eject an then saw that the mag. was gone and I couldn't get the bolt to open. I had to pound it open and saw that the case had let go and messed up the bolt. The ejector was shoved down in to the bolt and the extractor was damaged. I sent it back to Ruger to be fixed. Thy said that thy wouldn't fix it and sent me a new gun and told me that thy thought it was from the Sierra not having a crimp and that the bullet may have set back in to the case when it was feeding in to the chamber. Now I use a Lee FC die on my .223's that could end up in a auto loader.
Same almost happened to me when loading .357 Luckily, I caught myself self double charging and saw the possibility due to the case activated powder measure. I weighed all of the completed rounds and found 2 heavy loads, not quite double charges. Maybe not enough powder to self destruct my GP100 but probably would have left a mark… I removed the bullet feeder from my Hornady LNL Ammo Plant and put a powder check die in that station to reduce the posibility of a heavy or double charge.
For those that didn't follow the link, here's a couple pics of my blown 44 SBH;
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Scary subject. Try as we might for the most part we are mere mortals, most of us anyway, and do fall short of perfection. A moment of lack of concentration or oversight and it happens. Last winter while on the range working up some loads for the trapdoor, neighbor and fellow reloader Jeff walked up and during a pause in the shooting reached into his coat pocket and commenced laying parts (many of them) on the bench in front of me. His Ar had "let loose" and I was amazed at the damage. I pointed out that the brass had flowed back into and filled the firing pin hole and commented.."had a wee bit too much of something in there...ehh!" Perhaps the issue was a lack of crimp? Next time I see him I'll have to mention that. Other than a red face, a pronounced twitch and some minor loss of hearing he's fine. Audie...the Oldfart..
Looks like the "plastic fantastics" are a whole lot less protective of the
shooter's hand than metal framed guns.
Bill