nighthunter
05-20-2006, 02:11 PM
A while back there was a discussion here about a spent primer in a loaded round which was loaded on a Dillon press. I'm pretty sure I have the correct answer as to how it happened.
Yesterday while loading 40 S&W with my Dillon 550 I had a round that just didn't feel right so I stopped and checked the cases at each loading station. I had a spent primer in the case at station 1 after it had been sized and lowered for the new primer. The press had seemed to have had a different feel at the end of the primeing stroke. I removed this round and finished the others left in the press. I now reinserted the subject case back into the press and resized it again. Before lowering the case for a primer I removed it and the primer was still in the case. It was buldged in the center and slightly out of the case but still in the case. Just to check things I lowered the case to be primed and the primeing station pushed the primer back into the case and flattened it, this being with a new primer in the primeing arm. It would have cycled through the other stages if I hadn't checked because of the different feel I had mentioned. I have loaded many thousands of rounds on my Dillon press and this is the first for me. I made a slight die adjustment and finished loading.
Remember ... if it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't.
Nighthunter
Yesterday while loading 40 S&W with my Dillon 550 I had a round that just didn't feel right so I stopped and checked the cases at each loading station. I had a spent primer in the case at station 1 after it had been sized and lowered for the new primer. The press had seemed to have had a different feel at the end of the primeing stroke. I removed this round and finished the others left in the press. I now reinserted the subject case back into the press and resized it again. Before lowering the case for a primer I removed it and the primer was still in the case. It was buldged in the center and slightly out of the case but still in the case. Just to check things I lowered the case to be primed and the primeing station pushed the primer back into the case and flattened it, this being with a new primer in the primeing arm. It would have cycled through the other stages if I hadn't checked because of the different feel I had mentioned. I have loaded many thousands of rounds on my Dillon press and this is the first for me. I made a slight die adjustment and finished loading.
Remember ... if it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't.
Nighthunter