Anyone take a primer to the stomach before?

[ronsatspokane]

Never had one blow from heat but my nephew was doing some reloading in the shop. Lost a primer, never found it. Sometime later I'm rolling a 50 gallon drum of diesel around the shop on a carrier with steel wheels. Pop, I found the primer.

 

[aaronsdmf88]

Of course the problem is the projectile.
However what it might ‘drag’ into the wound is really where you have a chance of infection starting.
Shirt material that’s filthy. Grass. Filthy skin.
Ask the man who has a couple. One wasn’t a big deal. Through and through. A 68 Whiskey in two minutes. However the resulting infection took two weeks to resolve.

20 year 18B/11B. Now I got doc yelling at me

 

[Homerange]

I don’t know what you’re trying to say here. I’m assuming you’re trying to say cases shouldn’t have hot primers in the case until it’s time to charge them…I agree with that…


Reread the post. I think you’re missing the point.

Not at all and I stick to my comment.

If you have all brass case mouth/neck down there can be no way foreign matter like a primer can get into a case.
In my field cases all unfired ammo is projectile up but fired cases primer up and remain that way through all case prep until the brass is loaded with powder then immediately a projectile is seated.

No chance of missing a case prep step or double charging.

Like I said, poor practises are to blame for your injury and one hopes you might have a good hard look at your loading practices with a view to eliminating all chance of error or injury.

 

[aaronsdmf88]

Not at all and I stick to my comment.

If you have all brass case mouth/neck down there can be no way foreign matter like a primer can get into a case.
In my field cases all unfired ammo is projectile up but fired cases primer up and remain that way through all case prep until the brass is loaded with powder then immediately a projectile is seated.

No chance of missing a case prep step or double charging.

Like I said, poor practises are to blame for your injury and one hopes you might have a good hard look at your loading practices with a view to eliminating all chance of error or injury.

Hopefully I can be perfect like you one day

 

[Kracken McGraw]

I don’t know what you’re trying to say here. I’m assuming you’re trying to say cases shouldn’t have hot primers in the case until it’s time to charge them…I agree with that…


Reread the post. I think you’re missing the point.

For 20+ years of reloading most of it high volume competitive 3gun&USPSA (at one point 5-10k of 38super a month) sporting clays and rifles I think my safety track record is actually pretty decent. This is my first mishap.

I posted this to serve a reminder

-reloading is dangerous
-things that shouldn’t happen, can!
-a rouge primer could be life altering
-consider wearing eye protection when handling primers.

Hopefully I can be perfect like you one day

Things can happen if you’re actually doing something for sure, I’m glad you weren’t seriously hurt. Plus one on getting the Doc to look at it.

 

[Syncrowave]

shotgun primers are particularly potent. i have used them to shoot sabots from a muzzle loader. it will dent a tin can real good at 20 ft.

When I was a kid in the early 60s, my Dad, who was then an avid skeet shooter, used to fire primed-but-not-charged-with-powder-or-shot shotshells at mice running across the floor of our downstairs den. I can still see the star-shaped dents where those plastic Alcan air-wedge wads embossed the baseboard molding...

Not sure whether he prepared these rounds this way purposely, or was just reclaiming the cases from screwups...but I can say with complete certainty that my Mom was not a fan!

 

[ricco1949]

About ten years ago I was ripping a used 4x4 and hit a broken deck screw.

100 broken carbide saw teeth tips broke off. One caught my cheek. I tried several earth magnets lined up and squeezing it to remove it...to no avail.

My good friend, a SOG vet, said, "It's just like small shrapnel, your body will absorb it."

Well it kinda did disappear but about a year ago I had my teeth X-rayed and the tech comes back in and asks "What's this?", pointing to the X-ray.

That little piece of carbide still glowed like a LED light.

Aaron, I'd get that cup removed while the wound is still fresh.

 

[rayporter]

When I was a kid in the early 60s, my Dad, who was then an avid skeet shooter, used to fire primed-but-not-charged-with-powder-or-shot shotshells at mice running across the floor of our downstairs den. I can still see the star-shaped dents where those plastic Alcan air-wedge wads embossed the baseboard molding...

Not sure whether he prepared these rounds this way purposely, or was just reclaiming the cases from screwups...but I can say with complete certainty that my Mom was not a fan!

any pics of trophy mice?

 

[dellet]

Not at all and I stick to my comment.

If you have all brass case mouth/neck down there can be no way foreign matter like a primer can get into a case.
In my field cases all unfired ammo is projectile up but fired cases primer up and remain that way through all case prep until the brass is loaded with powder then immediately a projectile is seated.

No chance of missing a case prep step or double charging.

Like I said, poor practises are to blame for your injury and one hopes you might have a good hard look at your loading practices with a view to eliminating all chance of error or injury.

Poor practices are to blame !
Case should always be primer up until charged with powder.

Like nothing bad can happen leaving an exposed primer facing up.

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[pdm25150]

Yea definitely a double ouch on that one. Can't remember if it was posted on here. Someone was using a Dillon and set off a chain reaction in the primer tube. Didn't get hurt but both issues would scare crap out of you. I have never had one go off yet. I do wear a big grinding shield now. Have used it since I seen that post with the Dillon tubes. I have a rcbs hand primer and I worry about it some times. Try to keep it pointed away from me. Only issue i ever had was 3 primers flipped the wrong way when I snapped the lid closed. I didn't see it but primed 3 cases upside-down. Debated for awhile then threw them away. They were Lapua 6.5x.284...they are gold now.