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Reloading
What are the easiest mistakes you learned the most from when reloading?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1548527" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>Amen on this one. Get yourself a good reloading tray ($10.00 Brownells), full-length resize, prime, charge with powder and into the tray, <em><u>visually CHECK each round</u></em> before seating your bullet. I use a small hand held flashlight when doing this, and it only takes a minute to check 50 rounds. I've been reloading 50+ years, and still always perform the visual check on all my reloads and especially all of my rifle hunting ammunition. If <u><em>you're not using a progressive press</em></u> <em>when loading pistol ammunition,</em> and <em><u>you are first starting out</u></em>, make sure you use the reloading tray with the same sequence as mentioned above, and do the visual check to ascertain that you did not "double charge" your brass. Fast burning powders, especially Bullseye, are easy to double-charge, when this happens it creates catastrophic damage to firearms, to the people who are shooting them, and to the people who are standing next to them when they go off. Visual inspections are also a good check to ensure that you are not undercharged (equally important), which can cause a squib load. Make sure that you have a good, safe and waterproof storage container for your primers. Nothing worse than going through all of the steps of reloading two or three boxes of ammo to only find out that your primers have been compromised by moisture. MAKE SURE that you do not become complacent because that is when you can get into trouble; cutting corners. Stuff does happen when reloading.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1548527, member: 69192"] Amen on this one. Get yourself a good reloading tray ($10.00 Brownells), full-length resize, prime, charge with powder and into the tray, [I][U]visually CHECK each round[/U][/I] before seating your bullet. I use a small hand held flashlight when doing this, and it only takes a minute to check 50 rounds. I've been reloading 50+ years, and still always perform the visual check on all my reloads and especially all of my rifle hunting ammunition. If [U][I]you're not using a progressive press[/I][/U] [I]when loading pistol ammunition,[/I] and [I][U]you are first starting out[/U][/I], make sure you use the reloading tray with the same sequence as mentioned above, and do the visual check to ascertain that you did not "double charge" your brass. Fast burning powders, especially Bullseye, are easy to double-charge, when this happens it creates catastrophic damage to firearms, to the people who are shooting them, and to the people who are standing next to them when they go off. Visual inspections are also a good check to ensure that you are not undercharged (equally important), which can cause a squib load. Make sure that you have a good, safe and waterproof storage container for your primers. Nothing worse than going through all of the steps of reloading two or three boxes of ammo to only find out that your primers have been compromised by moisture. MAKE SURE that you do not become complacent because that is when you can get into trouble; cutting corners. Stuff does happen when reloading. [/QUOTE]
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