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<blockquote data-quote="HSmithTX" data-source="post: 2495367" data-attributes="member: 121677"><p>If you haven't had a primer detonate when reloading it is just a matter of time before it happens. If you load enough it WILL happen. If you are following safe practices you will likely only get the shizzle scared out of you and ringing in your ears. I feel bad for the guy in the pics and hope he is able to recover. </p><p></p><p>The energy in a single primer is impressive, a full tube of primers I don't want to witness.......</p><p></p><p>I have loaded a lot of ammo on progressive machines using primer tubes and do so with zero hesitation. By a lot I mean more ammo than anyone that hasn't shot clay targets and action shooting competitively for a long time would believe. My machines happen to be Dillon and have a steel sleeve around the primer tubes but I have used RCBS, Lee, MEC and Hornady progressives also. I pull the cotter pin and drop 100 primers at a time, never had a problem but understand that it could happen. I've seen the ceiling above a couple machines where the tube of primers somehow detonated, and the blown tubes. In every instance that I discussed with the person using the machine when it happened they were having an issue and got heavy handed. I have personally had 3 or 4 primers detonate when seating, one time was media in the primer pocket I think and the others were crimped primer pockets and I was heavy handed. I got what I earned being impatient and heavy handed. </p><p></p><p>Be careful and don't force anything, odds of things going bad are reduced by orders of magnitude I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HSmithTX, post: 2495367, member: 121677"] If you haven't had a primer detonate when reloading it is just a matter of time before it happens. If you load enough it WILL happen. If you are following safe practices you will likely only get the shizzle scared out of you and ringing in your ears. I feel bad for the guy in the pics and hope he is able to recover. The energy in a single primer is impressive, a full tube of primers I don't want to witness....... I have loaded a lot of ammo on progressive machines using primer tubes and do so with zero hesitation. By a lot I mean more ammo than anyone that hasn't shot clay targets and action shooting competitively for a long time would believe. My machines happen to be Dillon and have a steel sleeve around the primer tubes but I have used RCBS, Lee, MEC and Hornady progressives also. I pull the cotter pin and drop 100 primers at a time, never had a problem but understand that it could happen. I've seen the ceiling above a couple machines where the tube of primers somehow detonated, and the blown tubes. In every instance that I discussed with the person using the machine when it happened they were having an issue and got heavy handed. I have personally had 3 or 4 primers detonate when seating, one time was media in the primer pocket I think and the others were crimped primer pockets and I was heavy handed. I got what I earned being impatient and heavy handed. Be careful and don't force anything, odds of things going bad are reduced by orders of magnitude I think. [/QUOTE]
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