Bonehead reloading mistake

[garandman]

INTJ your missing the point, I'm talking about a visual inspection! I take them out one at a time from weighed out drawers and after I seat the primer it goes primer primer up. The count doesn't matter I've been known to count wrong before. visual is the only way.

Joe Salt

Loading this morning, I charged each case. Then I went to my bullet seater station. Before seating each bullet, I checked to be sure each case had powder in it.

Just paying attention and triple checking everything are the best ways I know to prevent reloading mistakes.

 

[INTJ]

INTJ your missing the point, I'm talking about a visual inspection! I take them out one at a time from weighed out drawers and after I seat the primer it goes primer primer up. The count doesn't matter I've been known to count wrong before. visual is the only way.

Joe Salt

I visually inspect that I have the right count of primers for the cases.......

 

[JFrank]

I visually inspect that I have the right count of primers for the cases.......

I count plus inspect each primed case as they come out of the hand primer tool and still had one that didn't get primed once.

Chit happens

 

[ditter]

Forgot to prime: check
Forgot to powder:check
Left reloads on bench while at range: Check

For all you RCBS Chargemaster Lite users: Remember to close the powder valve before pouring powder in.

 

[garandman]

For all you RCBS Chargemaster Lite users: Remember to close the powder valve before pouring powder in.

Same with Frankford... lol Three times, at least....

 

[Hoot]

Same with Frankford... lol Three times, at least....

Same with 1200 DPS2(3) but its a chute.

Hoot

 

[6MMsteve]

one time I was bumping the shoulder and was trying to screw down the die while holding the lock ring.... but I was screwing the die body down and turning the lock ring at the same time opposite way....I done this for 3 hours till I figured out I was turning both in different directions the caliper would read .012 one time then .015 next time when it should have read .02 or so...I had a whole page of scrabble and had myself a good laugh

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Around 11:00 pm on a recent evening I went to the bench to finish some loads. I was supposed to be using Hodgdon H4350, but I got the VV N130 instead. I have no idea why I did that, but I can think of a few things that probably distracted me. My powder is not stored on my bench, so it wasn’t a “more than one powder on the bench” issue. The next day when I fired the first shot, it sounded way too loud. Then I found extremely tough bolt lift. I was very lucky to escape with just a seriously damaged bolt face on the Rem 700 SA. Since I made this error, I made a small sign and placed it in my powder thrower to slow me down and make me re-check my powder selection before I start throwing powder.

 

[KMart]

Around 11:00 pm on a recent evening I went to the bench to finish some loads. I was supposed to be using Hodgdon H4350, but I got the VV N130 instead. I have no idea why I did that, but I can think of a few things that probably distracted me. My powder is not stored on my bench, so it wasn’t a “more than one powder on the bench” issue. The next day when I fired the first shot, it sounded way too loud. Then I found extremely tough bolt lift. I was very lucky to escape with just a seriously damaged bolt face on the Rem 700 SA. Since I made this error, I made a small sign and placed it in my powder thrower to slow me down and make me re-check my powder selection before I start throwing powder.

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

 

[FNSafari]

I was testing 3 virgin brass cases with A neck collet to see how much they stretched in the chamber, To know how much to bump back the shoulder.... so I measured the unfired brass.

Loaded them up, seated the bullets, got to the range, put them in the mag, chambered the round, sighted in on target, squeezed off the trigger and… click.

Waited 3 seconds then unchambered the unfired round.

I forgot to prime the $#@&% things !!!! Doh !!!!

I need to be fully wrapped in bubble wrap so I don't hurt myself.

The only thing worse is putting the primer in backwards!!!!!

 

[divingin]

I was supposed to be using Hodgdon H4350, but I got the VV N130 instead.

A friend of mine (I'm convinced; he denies it) did something similar loading 223. I suspect he loaded with pistol powder. We were finding parts of his upper receiver and bolt carrier group scattered around the rifle line for a couple of weeks. Lucky that nobody was injured.

 

[59FLH]

I was testing 3 virgin brass cases with A neck collet to see how much they stretched in the chamber, To know how much to bump back the shoulder.... so I measured the unfired brass.

Loaded them up, seated the bullets, got to the range, put them in the mag, chambered the round, sighted in on target, squeezed off the trigger and… click.

Waited 3 seconds then unchambered the unfired round.

I forgot to prime the $#@&% things !!!! Doh !!!!

I need to be fully wrapped in bubble wrap so I don't hurt myself.

As a habit to prevent no primer or powder, I place my cases in my loading block case head up after every operation, and only turn them case head down after they have been powder charged.