tdoyka
07-24-2017, 04:33 PM
i was cleaning out my desk drawer when i found 45 cartridges in 270win. i knew i had them, but 20 years go by and i forget the load. so i pulled the bullets out, dumped the powder and now i have 45 150gr bt. since i don't use the ballistic tips(i use the sst), what to do with them. so i texted my brother and he said he'll take them(bt).
so today i decided to load the bt up and give them to my brother. i primed 45 of the 270win and i put in what i thought was h4831sc and then i put the bullet on top. i didn't check to see my powder fill up the case. i might have been thinking of something else, i may have been distracted, but i did not check the powder fill on the 2 cartridges i have done. on the third cartridge i did check the powder fill. i said to myself, h4831sc doesn't compress the bullet? does it? so i leave it there on my reloading tray. so i take my Hornady Lock-N-Load Auto Charge Powder Scale and Dispenser and check to see if i entered it right. i did, 57.0gr of h4831sc, so let me see another cartridge. it measures out 57gr and i put in the cartridge, it does the same thing, it compresses the bullet.
and then i look to see the powder....................h4198!!!!! i almost fell over!!! how did i do that? THINKING OF SOMETHING ELSE!!!!! the only thing i could consider, i was thinking of something else when i should have been thinking on the powder i have used. i could just see my brother bloodied up and holding his now completely destroyed rifle, knowing that it was MY fault. i'm just lucky that i caught it in time. i don't know how much of h4198 is needed to "blow up" the rifle and i never will!!!
i have been reloading 25+/- years and i have never "mixed" up powder. to "mixed" up powder on someone else's rifle and he/she shoot the "mixed" up powder and the biggest thing would be the poor person's health. to be injured or cause death because I mistook something else, is NOT right. not in anyone's book.....:sad:
i'm sorry. i have never mixed up powder in 25+/- years. knowing that i could hurt or kill someone else. i'm just reminding you to check on everything and then check it again, and if you are not sure, check it a third time, fourth, fifth......... just check it.
so today i decided to load the bt up and give them to my brother. i primed 45 of the 270win and i put in what i thought was h4831sc and then i put the bullet on top. i didn't check to see my powder fill up the case. i might have been thinking of something else, i may have been distracted, but i did not check the powder fill on the 2 cartridges i have done. on the third cartridge i did check the powder fill. i said to myself, h4831sc doesn't compress the bullet? does it? so i leave it there on my reloading tray. so i take my Hornady Lock-N-Load Auto Charge Powder Scale and Dispenser and check to see if i entered it right. i did, 57.0gr of h4831sc, so let me see another cartridge. it measures out 57gr and i put in the cartridge, it does the same thing, it compresses the bullet.
and then i look to see the powder....................h4198!!!!! i almost fell over!!! how did i do that? THINKING OF SOMETHING ELSE!!!!! the only thing i could consider, i was thinking of something else when i should have been thinking on the powder i have used. i could just see my brother bloodied up and holding his now completely destroyed rifle, knowing that it was MY fault. i'm just lucky that i caught it in time. i don't know how much of h4198 is needed to "blow up" the rifle and i never will!!!
i have been reloading 25+/- years and i have never "mixed" up powder. to "mixed" up powder on someone else's rifle and he/she shoot the "mixed" up powder and the biggest thing would be the poor person's health. to be injured or cause death because I mistook something else, is NOT right. not in anyone's book.....:sad:
i'm sorry. i have never mixed up powder in 25+/- years. knowing that i could hurt or kill someone else. i'm just reminding you to check on everything and then check it again, and if you are not sure, check it a third time, fourth, fifth......... just check it.