Hoser
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About 3-4 weeks ago I was loading some long range rifle ammo (6mm CM) in preparation to go to the Steel Safari in New Mexico.
I load on a tweaked Dillon 550 and Prometheus measure. I also use a Dillon primer filler cause it is faster than pick up tubes. I tend to load long range ammo in batches. This would be a batch of 500.
Around the 300 round mark I dump a tray of primers in there and hit the power button. I sometimes take a quick peek at the primers as they go around and get dropped in. Not because it looks cool when they go around and I like shiny things, but to make sure no primers get dropped in upside down. After a few seconds I see something that looked wrong and hit the stop button. Had I not been paying attention I would have missed it.
After 30+ years of reloading and too many rounds to even count, I see it. The mythical primer with no friggin anvil. I have heard about their existence from a few dudes over the years, but had never seen one. Much like Sasquatch or the Lock Ness Monster. I figured I has better document the existence of this rare animal.
The missing anvil was not in the plastic storage box or anywhere to be found, but you can see where it kinda was at one time.
A bad round would not have cost me the match, but it could have cost me a few places and a lot of concentration.
I load on a tweaked Dillon 550 and Prometheus measure. I also use a Dillon primer filler cause it is faster than pick up tubes. I tend to load long range ammo in batches. This would be a batch of 500.
Around the 300 round mark I dump a tray of primers in there and hit the power button. I sometimes take a quick peek at the primers as they go around and get dropped in. Not because it looks cool when they go around and I like shiny things, but to make sure no primers get dropped in upside down. After a few seconds I see something that looked wrong and hit the stop button. Had I not been paying attention I would have missed it.
After 30+ years of reloading and too many rounds to even count, I see it. The mythical primer with no friggin anvil. I have heard about their existence from a few dudes over the years, but had never seen one. Much like Sasquatch or the Lock Ness Monster. I figured I has better document the existence of this rare animal.
The missing anvil was not in the plastic storage box or anywhere to be found, but you can see where it kinda was at one time.
A bad round would not have cost me the match, but it could have cost me a few places and a lot of concentration.
