When charging your rifle cases with a powder measure, you must ensure that the case mouth is in the drop tube! If the case head is in the drop tube, the powder charge will cascade all over your reloading bench! Makes a helluva mess!
A Word of Caution
- Thread starter Pawnee Bill
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Fast14riot
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Goes with "be sure to move the funnel to the next case before dumping powder." BT,DT.
Been there, done that!
I’ve dumped my powder thrower handle before the pan got under it with my other hand.
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and never trust anything electronic or a fart.... 
Those Lapua flash holes take a while. Makes my goat throw up his hooves and walk away. Then I gotta do itThat’s why I seat the bullet first, then drop single powder kernels through the flash hole, and lastly seat the primer with a back-hand handheld primer. Slightly slower than normal but I’ll never have that kind of mess!
tred1956
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That reminds me of a morning back in December. I got up early that morning, well early for me anyway. Turned on the kitchen light and I MUST have closed my eyes. Grabbed my black Yeti coffee cup and placed it on the Keurig. Installed a pod and pushed the appropriate buttons. Shuffled over to my chair and did my daily diabetic routine. Finger stick and good news BGL 74. Then my injection, now set for another day. Went back to the kitchen to FIND my Yeti cup still empty??? Hard to get them to hold coffee when they are UPSIDE Down. Luckily the overflow had caught most of my MESS. Laughed and cleaned up the mess. Now I at least open my eyes when I reach the coffee pot. I have now learned that the more experienced in life (OLDER) I get the more I need to pay attention. My advice LAUGH clean up the MESS and enjoy the day
Safe shooting
Doug
Safe shooting
Doug
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Common sense.
Along those same lines. IF you do not put water in the coffee maker. It WILL NOT make coffee. The grounds stay completely dry!!
My mothertook the paper cup from a bag of cookies and put it in the coffee maker thinking it was the same as a filter. Destoyed the coffee maker. Off topic is OK once in a while. Fishing, electric cars ect to far off topic. Humor is always nice.
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muleystalker
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I was reloading for my 30-28 Nosler with N570, powder, seat bullet into my MTM box. I went to the range and about my 7 round I went to place the cartridge in the chamber and looked down and saw one gradual of powder on the bench.... I was wondering if I was seeing things right, how the heck did that get there. I looked at the cartridge and there was no primer ,but N570 being so big it was bridging at the flash hole so I didn't notice it while at the reloading bench.
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