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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2868547" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>Duds happen for any variety of reasons. There are several things that one can do during the reloading proess that can mostly eliminate the problem with dud ammunition. Oh, and in answer to your question, yes I have had a few duds over the last 55 or so years reloading. Most of my duds have been primer related. Once probably 20 years ago I had a sleeve of CCI Large Rifle primes that were about 50% duds. Good hits from the firing pin but no ignition. At the time I was loading 308 match rounds that were going to be used for target practice. There were several of us shooters who reloaded most of our ammo. At the time I was using Winchester primers and never had a problem with them. One of the other shooters suggested that I try some CCI primers, so next time I went to my sporting goods store I picked up a sleeve to try out. I loaded the ammo using the primers with the results mentioned above. Fortunately I was able to pull the bullets, dump the powder back into its container and punch out the offending primers. Each had a good hit from the firing pin and when removed looked normal with the exception that the were falling apart due to the firing pin hit then the decapping pin pushing them out. They, along with the rest of the remaining ones went into my jug of oil. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Otherwise I have not had any duds. The primary reason for this is care taken during the reloading process. There are two major steps I take to ensure that everything is done in a logical sequence with quality control checks between steps. Back when I started I used the primer feeds that came with the press. The feed tubes were loaded carefully but there seemed to always be that one primer that somehow turned itself upside down in the tube. Anyway one of the checks I do with each and every round is to turn it over and check the primer seating to make sure that they are seated below the base of the cartridge. This is where I find upside down primers, and primers not seated to the bottom of the primer pocket. It does happen. Another thing I do is use two loading blocks, taking a cartridge from one block, priming or dumping powder then move it to the other block so I know that whatever process I am doing has been completed. One last check that I do is to visually look into each cartridge to ensure that the powder level is even in each and every one of them. Every once in awhile I will find one that is empty, or or even worse that has a double charge. This is what happens when you get distracted during the process of reloading. The double charges are always related to pistol ammo where the chosen charge does not come anywhere close to filling the case. No powder can happen to any cartridge. Without these quality control steps it would be easy to load a dud or double charged cartridge. In closing, have I made errors? Absolutely. But by taking care to carefully check each cartridge these errors were detected and corrected before the cartridge found it's way into the chamber to be fired. Never be in too much of a hurry to eliminate the final checks before closing up the cartridge with a bullet. SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2868547, member: 118816"] Duds happen for any variety of reasons. There are several things that one can do during the reloading proess that can mostly eliminate the problem with dud ammunition. Oh, and in answer to your question, yes I have had a few duds over the last 55 or so years reloading. Most of my duds have been primer related. Once probably 20 years ago I had a sleeve of CCI Large Rifle primes that were about 50% duds. Good hits from the firing pin but no ignition. At the time I was loading 308 match rounds that were going to be used for target practice. There were several of us shooters who reloaded most of our ammo. At the time I was using Winchester primers and never had a problem with them. One of the other shooters suggested that I try some CCI primers, so next time I went to my sporting goods store I picked up a sleeve to try out. I loaded the ammo using the primers with the results mentioned above. Fortunately I was able to pull the bullets, dump the powder back into its container and punch out the offending primers. Each had a good hit from the firing pin and when removed looked normal with the exception that the were falling apart due to the firing pin hit then the decapping pin pushing them out. They, along with the rest of the remaining ones went into my jug of oil. Otherwise I have not had any duds. The primary reason for this is care taken during the reloading process. There are two major steps I take to ensure that everything is done in a logical sequence with quality control checks between steps. Back when I started I used the primer feeds that came with the press. The feed tubes were loaded carefully but there seemed to always be that one primer that somehow turned itself upside down in the tube. Anyway one of the checks I do with each and every round is to turn it over and check the primer seating to make sure that they are seated below the base of the cartridge. This is where I find upside down primers, and primers not seated to the bottom of the primer pocket. It does happen. Another thing I do is use two loading blocks, taking a cartridge from one block, priming or dumping powder then move it to the other block so I know that whatever process I am doing has been completed. One last check that I do is to visually look into each cartridge to ensure that the powder level is even in each and every one of them. Every once in awhile I will find one that is empty, or or even worse that has a double charge. This is what happens when you get distracted during the process of reloading. The double charges are always related to pistol ammo where the chosen charge does not come anywhere close to filling the case. No powder can happen to any cartridge. Without these quality control steps it would be easy to load a dud or double charged cartridge. In closing, have I made errors? Absolutely. But by taking care to carefully check each cartridge these errors were detected and corrected before the cartridge found it's way into the chamber to be fired. Never be in too much of a hurry to eliminate the final checks before closing up the cartridge with a bullet. SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT. [/QUOTE]
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