So I rolled up a bunch of 5.56 - several hundred - of which 298 went as planned, passed the case gauge check .... lovely.
Two did not.
And now I have gone and done probably the dumbest thing I have ever done in thirty years of reloading.
They were only off by a couple of mm ... so what did my idiotic ?????? do? (*** was I thinking ... I am SUCH an idiot!) I'm embarrassed.
I decided to run the first case back up in the resizing die and I greased'er-up good before I tried this ... I deserve everything I get for this. This is a warning to all noobies .... NEVER EVER do something this stupid.
Loaded stuck case ... live primer. I AM AN IMBECILE! I AM A MORON!
No way to reach down in the die and pull the pill, dump the powder and deactivate the primer.
No way to tap the flash hole and extract the case without risking ignition.
Only things I can think to do is ...
1) Accept my punishment, trash the die, pay the price.
2) Think of some way of cutting-off the base of the case that is exposed, dump the charge and go from there trying to get the case and seated pill out. But my danger meter is pegging with the thought of that.
Call me names. Fire away. I deserve everything thrown at me. This is my official cyber walk of shame.
Mods: Wasn't sure which forum to post this in so I rolled the dice .... feel free to move it if there is a more appropriate place to illustrate my stupidity.