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AR15/10 Rifles
Over pressure? but i don't understand this!
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<blockquote data-quote="CaptnC" data-source="post: 1606643" data-attributes="member: 101755"><p>Been pulling 13 hour shifts for the past two weeks so I don't get much time when I get home...hitting the sack at 11pm and bouncing back up at 3:45am....</p><p></p><p>Any way...if we have nominations for the Darwin award, I'm in and after this post will be the crowd favorite to win it for the next few year...yes this one will follow me or should I say haunt me for many years!</p><p></p><p>Got the RCBS puller in to go with the collet I bought thinking I was getting both by the ad on Amazon. As you will so see..."thinking" is a key word here!</p><p></p><p>Ok...pulled the bullets on 9 loaded rounds. One was tossed because the primer fell out in the ammo box. Like I said this brass is my original brass from a year ago and have seen two pounds of powder burned in them.</p><p></p><p>Ok...two digital scales out...zero'd and ready....each charge gets two weighs alternating between each. Two were 0.1 off the rest spot on...powder charge is GTG for what I intended to do.</p><p></p><p>I back off each load to 27.3gr and push a 120 Sierra Pro Hunter down on it. Getting late...wife has already reminded me it was getting late. I'm thinking...I need to measure the diameter of these bullet... ****, calipers are in the kitchen...I'm in the garage...but hell...I have two scales sitting here...[ATTACH=full]128511[/ATTACH]</p><p>My eyes popped out of my skull like a in the cartoons...so I grabbed the box of bullets I had used last Saturday.</p><p></p><p>What a screw up! I had been using a box of 140 SMK and the 107 SMK to anchor a light over the area where the scale sits to help me see.</p><p></p><p>NORMALLY the label faces me and the 107's always stay on top. It's jus the way I like to stack thing...heavy on bottom...lightest on top.</p><p></p><p>Well Saturday for some reason the labels were facing away from me, so I grabbed the top box and loaded 40 cases for Sunday. I'm lucky that I didn't get to meet my maker that morning!</p><p></p><p>I must give a little credit to Bear Creek Arsenal, that their side charge upper and barrel could handle the massive pressure I put on it...for 10 shot!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what? o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" /></p><p></p><p>So mystery solved...I loaded 140gr bullets where 107gr were supposed to be.</p><p></p><p>Not that this is an excuse, I got up super early after staying up late Friday night getting the cases ready for Saturday morning!</p><p></p><p>I weighed half of the loads three times...sometimes I go back and reweigh the powder charge in a row or two in the loading tray just to make sure everything is dead on...</p><p></p><p>But didn't read the label on the box once!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CaptnC, post: 1606643, member: 101755"] Been pulling 13 hour shifts for the past two weeks so I don't get much time when I get home...hitting the sack at 11pm and bouncing back up at 3:45am.... Any way...if we have nominations for the Darwin award, I'm in and after this post will be the crowd favorite to win it for the next few year...yes this one will follow me or should I say haunt me for many years! Got the RCBS puller in to go with the collet I bought thinking I was getting both by the ad on Amazon. As you will so see..."thinking" is a key word here! Ok...pulled the bullets on 9 loaded rounds. One was tossed because the primer fell out in the ammo box. Like I said this brass is my original brass from a year ago and have seen two pounds of powder burned in them. Ok...two digital scales out...zero'd and ready....each charge gets two weighs alternating between each. Two were 0.1 off the rest spot on...powder charge is GTG for what I intended to do. I back off each load to 27.3gr and push a 120 Sierra Pro Hunter down on it. Getting late...wife has already reminded me it was getting late. I'm thinking...I need to measure the diameter of these bullet... ****, calipers are in the kitchen...I'm in the garage...but hell...I have two scales sitting here...[ATTACH=full]128511[/ATTACH] My eyes popped out of my skull like a in the cartoons...so I grabbed the box of bullets I had used last Saturday. What a screw up! I had been using a box of 140 SMK and the 107 SMK to anchor a light over the area where the scale sits to help me see. NORMALLY the label faces me and the 107's always stay on top. It's jus the way I like to stack thing...heavy on bottom...lightest on top. Well Saturday for some reason the labels were facing away from me, so I grabbed the top box and loaded 40 cases for Sunday. I'm lucky that I didn't get to meet my maker that morning! I must give a little credit to Bear Creek Arsenal, that their side charge upper and barrel could handle the massive pressure I put on it...for 10 shot!:eek::eek::confused::confused:o_O So mystery solved...I loaded 140gr bullets where 107gr were supposed to be. Not that this is an excuse, I got up super early after staying up late Friday night getting the cases ready for Saturday morning! I weighed half of the loads three times...sometimes I go back and reweigh the powder charge in a row or two in the loading tray just to make sure everything is dead on... But didn't read the label on the box once!:eek::(:(:( [/QUOTE]
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