ok, so i made an armature mistake that should have never happened, got very lucky, and thought i would take a min to remind everyone to be careful.
went to load 200 rounds of 22-250 the other night for a last min p-dog trip the next day, started case prep at about 9pm, finished and started priming at about 12am, grabbed my priming tool and went to town, i usually load 33.9gr of benchmark with 55gr v-mav's. i had a promising load at 22.7gr so decided to go with that instead at the last min.
FIRST MISTAKE, went to poor powder into the chargmaster and realized i only had about 2/10th of a pound of powder left ( not catastrophic but a bummer), so i went and bought more as soon as the store opened at 9am and threw all my loads together before noon.
got out to my p-dog town and as we rolled up we decided to try for a few coyotes we had seen in the area, ended up jumping 3 of them, took 3 running shoots, 1 at each coyote, dropped 2 runners with a bolt gun, standing unsuported from about 300yds i was happy. started shooting p-dogs and paying more attention to my spent cases and i noticed about 10 rounds in that i had been blowing every single primer. extremly high pressures. i could not figure out any reason except maby i seated them to far out and was contacting the lands, but i was a full 1.2gr under my usual load so it did not make sense...
then last night i went to load for my 44 mag and reached under the counter to where my primers are and grabbed my large pistol magnums, that's when it hit me MISTAKE NUMBER TWO, i primed all the 22-250 with large pistol magnum accidentally...
holy cow i got lucky, if i had loaded those at 33.9 i think i may have fraged my rifle...
LESSONS LEARNED, don't load tired, always pay close attention and don't get complacent, and check your dam primers, twice or three times...lol.
went to load 200 rounds of 22-250 the other night for a last min p-dog trip the next day, started case prep at about 9pm, finished and started priming at about 12am, grabbed my priming tool and went to town, i usually load 33.9gr of benchmark with 55gr v-mav's. i had a promising load at 22.7gr so decided to go with that instead at the last min.
FIRST MISTAKE, went to poor powder into the chargmaster and realized i only had about 2/10th of a pound of powder left ( not catastrophic but a bummer), so i went and bought more as soon as the store opened at 9am and threw all my loads together before noon.
got out to my p-dog town and as we rolled up we decided to try for a few coyotes we had seen in the area, ended up jumping 3 of them, took 3 running shoots, 1 at each coyote, dropped 2 runners with a bolt gun, standing unsuported from about 300yds i was happy. started shooting p-dogs and paying more attention to my spent cases and i noticed about 10 rounds in that i had been blowing every single primer. extremly high pressures. i could not figure out any reason except maby i seated them to far out and was contacting the lands, but i was a full 1.2gr under my usual load so it did not make sense...
then last night i went to load for my 44 mag and reached under the counter to where my primers are and grabbed my large pistol magnums, that's when it hit me MISTAKE NUMBER TWO, i primed all the 22-250 with large pistol magnum accidentally...
holy cow i got lucky, if i had loaded those at 33.9 i think i may have fraged my rifle...
LESSONS LEARNED, don't load tired, always pay close attention and don't get complacent, and check your dam primers, twice or three times...lol.
