Duds anyone???

[C-130 Dude]

Sunday honesty.

How many of you out there can honestly say that, " I've never had a dud that I built myself".

Gun issues/malfunctions aside.

Come on, fess up.

 

[The Oregonian]

Yes, I've had one where I didn't add powder. There have been a couple of times where I loaded up some ammo and realized that I had forgotten primers..it became clear as a kernel or two of powder would drop out through the flash hole. What a pain that is. Pull, dump, resize, etc, not to mention a bruised ego haha.

 

[C-130 Dude]

Yes, I've had one where I didn't add powder. There have been a couple of times where I loaded up some ammo and realized that I had forgotten primers..it became clear as a kernel or two of powder would drop out through the flash hole. What a pain that is. Pull, dump, resize, etc, not to mention a bruised ego haha.

Thank goodness that's all that happened.

 

[victor3ranger]

Nope never happened
That's my story and I'm sticking to it

 

[IllinoisBurt]

Still working through a bad batch of Win LRP. Nothing wrong with the loading process, just bad primers. Regulated those to range use only. 5 or 6 dead per 100. Thankfully it's shown I don't have a flinch so there's a minor bonus. Just a few hundred left...

 

[Rosebud]

Yep, I've done it. Had two that didn't go bang that had insects inside the cases. My loading bench is in a outside the house building. Had empty cases in a box both times. One was a spider the other a stink bug. Stink bug was about two years ago. Keep all the brass to be loaded in zip lock bags now. The primer scorched them pretty good.

 

[C-130 Dude]

Yep, I've done it. Had two that didn't go bang that had insects inside the cases. My loading bench is in a outside the house building. Had empty cases in a box both times. One was a spider the other a stink bug. Stink bug was about two years ago. Keep all the brass to be loaded in zip lock bags now. The primer scorched them pretty good.

We're they cooked enough to eat?

 

[C-130 Dude]

Still working through a bad batch of Win LRP. Nothing wrong with the loading process, just bad primers. Regulated those to range use only. 5 or 6 dead per 100. Thankfully it's shown I don't have a flinch so there's a minor bonus. Just a few hundred left...

Are you sure it's the primers?

 

[Recon$$]

Had 1 Win lrp not go boom on a dog. Only one ive ever loaded not work. Had a few AB39 not go boom with uncle Sam.

 

[levers4life]

I tried some Armscor primers once. Several duds in the brick of SP primers. Or maybe too hard, but I tried them in several 9mm pistols. Complained to the company, never heard back. Never bought again.

 

[ARlife4me]

As far as a dud cartridge relation goes I had some pre-primed brass from Jag that were bad. Anything I've reloaded had been a few missed primers, but watching powder spill on the flwas a give away. Never had 1 without powder though.

 

[Mark37082]

Never had it happen on one I rolled, but now I'm nervous. I did have it happen on factory round. Many years ago I had a bullet lodge in the barrel from an round without any powder. Luckily it was just when target shooting, and I was smart enough to check the barrel.

 

[asd9055]

Never had a dud, however, on one cold morning, I went to extract a round in my 30.06. Case came out, bullet stayed in barrel. It was seated at .010 of lands. Since then, I have been crimping ALL, not just .375H&H.

 

[epoletna]

Had several reloads fail-to-fire several years. It was when I was just getting back to reloading after taking a break for a while. after looking at how I was performing each step of the process, I concluded I was not seating the primers all the way into the pocket. I've been more attentive to that process since then, in fact bought myself an RCBS bench-mounted priming tool to make sure I was getting the primers fully seated. No problems since then.