Flash-Over Incident with Hornady Hand Priming Tool
Hi folks,
Had a small scare the other day whilst reloading that might be a helpful reminder to people to keep safe and follow your procedures not being sloppy.
This happened using a Hornady Hand Primer
My set-up post incident
https://i.imgur.com/hmaMYMWl.jpg
Close-up of hand primer – not sure where rest of pieces are.
https://i.imgur.com/zLfRUjvl.jpg
Close-up of “flashed” primers (Note empty but undented cups)
https://i.imgur.com/Mu5NzK3l.jpg
And this is the resulting cuts to hand – fortunately they seem superficial. Blast also blew my glasses off my face and they landed ~6 feet away.
https://i.imgur.com/NAa0kSel.jpg
Fortunately I was wearing latex gloves so some protection.
Be careful folks and wear your eye protection.
(Just in case people are interested, didn’t notice anything different from usual. Cases were PPU factory on ~4th firing. Primers were Federal Large Pistol. Cases had been sonic cleaned and primer pockets checked prior to priming and I’d primed ~50 that session and this process has served me fine for ~3 years of loading)
Best wishes,
Scrummy