Opps....

[Nodakplowboy]

Working up a load for the 6BR, it's going well. Last little tweak is a powder charge weight. So, last night loaded 20 rounds, maybe a tad to late and a bit to tired. Made a early AM range trip to check the load. Got all set up, chambered round #1, pulled the trigger...click.

Opps, looks like one step in the process was overlooked. At least it's only a 3 mile drive to the range, try again tomorrow.

Sigh.....a mind is a terrible thing to lose. Sure am glad nobody else has ever done this, right?

 

[spife7980]

Sigh.....a mind is a terrible thing to lose. Sure am glad nobody else has ever done this, right?

Not this week at least.

I did have my first case ever that I failed to powder last week though, the last one of the batch.

 

[Dobbs02si]

I haven't done that with a rifle YET. Now pistol on a progressive...not even going there right now.

 

[lightman]

If you are going to have an "opps" thats the kind to have! A little bit of a mess and a little embarrassment is better then personal injury or damage to a rifle.

Not to beat up on you, after all you had the guts to post this, but did you learn from this? I've been cramped for time and exhausted many times so I do understand. Maybe change your procedures so that unprimed cases sit in the block primer up and primed cases sit primer down?

 

[Dobbs02si]

Maybe change your procedures so that unprimed cases sit in the block primer up and primed cases sit primer down?

This.

I use ammo cases and unprimed brass to be loaded is always upside down until it has powder. I can be scatter brained and this works for me.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

There are to types of people who reload, those who have done that, an those who will do that at some point.

 

[Milo 2.5]

I did have my first case ever that I failed to powder last week though, the last one of the batch.

I lasted many yrs till I finally did that. Had 2 in one ammo box. Smart me, I came home, pulled the bullets,, retensioned necks and reloaded them w/o decapping the fired primer, back out the next day for more failure.

 

[NH4X]

Guilty also,but caught it on powder dump/fill,never left loading bench. Using a loading block, the answer is above. I sometimes use two small buckets or tupper ware to keep primed and unprimed seperate.

 

[Ryridesmotox]

Anyone who says they haven't done it is probably a liar.

 

[Steel head]

I put powder in 50 260 cases last week.
when I went to seat bullets I saw a kernel of H4350 fall out the bottom.