I recently picked up a 29-2 ,4inch Smith and Wesson.
Loaded some 240 grn hard cast bullets from Georgia Arms, 9 grns of Titegroup and a WLP primer.I was looking for a load around a 1000fps.
When I took the Smith out last week it shot well for about 10 rounds then I had one just go poof and a little sizzle.I had one years ago where I had missed putting powder in a 357 mag from a Green Machine so I only had a pop with that one and the bullet had lodged between cylinder and forcing cone ,locking up the gun.
I checked the smith and cylinder was locked from bullet stuck in gap.
Knocked bullet back into casing and cleared weapon.Casing was extremely black all the way to rim.I wiped gun down reloaded and shot 6 more rounds no problem.
Let a shooting partner try the gun and on first shot it did the same thing.
I thought I could have missed powder on one or maybe I had a piece of walnut shell stuck in flash hole but not 2 out of about 20 shots.
I had been real careful on loading these used cleaning station on all primer pockets and cleared all walnut shell stuck in flash hole.(getting away from that)
When charging shells I had put five in loading block ,dropped powder into those 5 visually checking then seating bullets with medium crimp.
I came back home and checked each remaining round by shaking and hearing powder.
Took the gun back out Saturday and it happened 5 more times out of 30 shots some were on first shot so I ruled out bullet movement from recoil,But recoil was not bad anyway.
Just wondering what ya'll think could be happening .I am getting ready to pull the last 40 I had loaded.
Darrell
I have loaded some 45 LC with same jug of Titegroup no problems