Betcha never dun that.. Dumass move.
- Thread starter TheOtherZilla
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Several people mentioned trying to force big bullets into too-small cases. I have done sort of the opposite by doing everything except sizing my cases, and finding out when I’m seating the bullets and they just have little / no resistance, and then after a bullet just falls in, I finally snap to what I’ve done.
NZ_Fclass
Silver $$ Contributor
Go for Fireball!
A few years ago, my mate Pete and I decided to go bush for the weekend. Another friend was renting a house on a farm about 300ks south of Auckland. After work, we both rushed home for gear, met up, packed the car and drove down. Had a good dinner on arrival and set out next morning. Pete gets his gun out of the bag - a 12 gauge and a box of 6.5 Swedes. We let him carry the lunch ( and share a rifle for a few feral goats)
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At least you didn't go to the range before discovering that the 50 crookedly sitting rounds in the box were crookedly sitting for a reason. Packed up and went home since I had exactly 50 sort of fully loaded rounds to shoot. You are more alert than I was.
How about showing up at a match and realizing you only had about 5 primed out of 35?
How about having difficulty getting shoulders bumped back enough. So you keep cranking down the die and notice how hard it is to get the full stroke out of the press. After a few weeks of this you notice you have a bent decapping rod.
So you when you put in the new decapping rod you don't set it quite so long and all of a sudden you have no issues with sizing.......................
So you when you put in the new decapping rod you don't set it quite so long and all of a sudden you have no issues with sizing.......................
rmr
Gold $$ Contributor
Ever stick a 50bmg case in a FL die? pro tip: don't.
when i was first starting in 50bmg match shooting, i tried to resize some once fired MG brass, which is always a crap shoot on the resize. even lubed correctly, I once broke the Bench (the F@#$ing Bench!!) that the press was bolted to, trying to resize a case. sooo.... the day arrived when i forgot to lube a case. i invented at least 3 new four letter words that day, one for each hour i spent trying to get it out. At one point I thought i was going to have to chuck the sizing die up in the lathe, and cut it out with a boring bar. things didn't get that bad..but close.
when i was first starting in 50bmg match shooting, i tried to resize some once fired MG brass, which is always a crap shoot on the resize. even lubed correctly, I once broke the Bench (the F@#$ing Bench!!) that the press was bolted to, trying to resize a case. sooo.... the day arrived when i forgot to lube a case. i invented at least 3 new four letter words that day, one for each hour i spent trying to get it out. At one point I thought i was going to have to chuck the sizing die up in the lathe, and cut it out with a boring bar. things didn't get that bad..but close.
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Yeah umm, try that using the socket in a drill method. It'll wait a moment until you've set it down before the primer, the case, and you're heart rate go flying.
When I first tried my hand at reloading it was in 308. I went cheap at first and bought a Lee decapper. I broke two decapping pins and I'm thinking, maybe I'm not cut out for this reloading game. I finally pried one out with an awl and took to the internet to find out what I wasn't understanding. Well the ammo that I bought and was trying to reload was NATO Military Surplus and had Berdan primers which have two small primer holes side by side instead of one large hole in the middle. I went out and bought some new unprimed cases and started with something I knew would work.
Longtrain
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Oh, that would be bad. So, you quietly pull yourself off the line, put your ammo away and claim a rifle malfunction, and volunteer to help in the pits. Because your “friends” would break your balls forever over this one.
Let’s see...at a future match...
“Ready on the right?” Hey, Longtrain did you prime your cases this time?”
A muffled yes in reply...
Ok, Ready on the left? All ready on the firing line. Of course, the line can’t start shooting until they stop laughing...
Not as bad, but driving 40 minutes to the range and realizing you left your ammo home or you forgot your range key and no one else is there to let you in. Don’t know why these come to mind.
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rmr
Gold $$ Contributor
I shoot both heavy class and TO in 3gun.. one class is 9mm/223/12ga , the other class is 45acp/308/12ga.
you can see where this is going already....
I showed up to a match with 9mm/223 guns and 45acp/308 mags/ammo/holster. I pre-paid the match signup and it was 45minutes drive time each way to the range. it was basically a 3 hour, $60 drive in the country on a Sat morning.
you can see where this is going already....
I showed up to a match with 9mm/223 guns and 45acp/308 mags/ammo/holster. I pre-paid the match signup and it was 45minutes drive time each way to the range. it was basically a 3 hour, $60 drive in the country on a Sat morning.
NZ_Fclass
Silver $$ Contributor
Todays hint- wear your reading glasses before setting your torque wrench when tightening rings onto pic rail.
The replacement bolt was free (friendly distributor), the drive there and back took an hour and gas.
Then go and see the doc, see if he has anything for embarrassment.
The replacement bolt was free (friendly distributor), the drive there and back took an hour and gas.
Then go and see the doc, see if he has anything for embarrassment.
brokeasajoke
Silver $$ Contributor
Always the equipment never the operator. Stupid powder thrower forgot to put powder in the 30-06 cases. The press nor the seating die told me either and they very well knew it. Acquired 2 more throwers and seems they are as bad as the first. Jokes on them if I ever find the bullet puller that lost itself.
Nobody must load for a 223 and a 6x223...yeah...
Hard to tell which 1 you are loading sometimes...
If you need real glasses and have a dollar 2:98 paid of
reading glasses that need a upgrade...lol
Pays to have 1 of your kids helping ... sometimes...lol
Kermit
Hard to tell which 1 you are loading sometimes...
If you need real glasses and have a dollar 2:98 paid of
reading glasses that need a upgrade...lol
Pays to have 1 of your kids helping ... sometimes...lol
Kermit
I think thats a right of passage!
A couple of months ago I was loading for one of my rifles I had just built and was loading 5 different powders.I had finished up 5 rounds with Reloader 22 and dumped it back into the jug to get it ready for the IMR 7828 I was going to load next.Which happened to be the jug that I dumped the RX22 in.And of course,it was one that I had loaded maybe 20 rounds out of before I decided to blend it with RX22.I knew there was a good reason one of the first rules of reloading is only have one type of powder on the bench at any time.Thankfully it was a one pounder.And thankfully it reminded me to follow the rules.
carefully designed assembled ladder of some small caliber stuff, temporarily transported in a large caliber ammo box... with the firm reminder to NOT let this thing tip over.
open truck door and what hits the parking lot? range bag with the useless ladder test inside.
(all it would have taken to save the day was a foam filler on top of the rounds to keep them in place)
open truck door and what hits the parking lot? range bag with the useless ladder test inside.
(all it would have taken to save the day was a foam filler on top of the rounds to keep them in place)
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