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Reloading
What are the easiest mistakes you learned the most from when reloading?
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<blockquote data-quote="Silly_Ghillie" data-source="post: 1550568" data-attributes="member: 107271"><p>I am fortunate enough never to have made a squib load, or miss a primer. I think this comes from my start of hand loading late, having learned from the mistakes of my peers via stories I've heard. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's a good one. </p><p></p><p>when I very first started, I switched powders out of my powder hopper and unintentionally forgot to turn the cam to completely empty it. I inadvertently put about 5 ish grains of Varget with my H1000 and loaded it into a .300 WM. because both powders are extruded and similar looking, I didn't catch it. I definitely knew something had happened when I fired that sucker (which could have potentially been much worse) I got about a 2.5 foot fireball and about 125% the recoil- primer blew out, case neck was scorched, it was bad. I quadruple check my powder hopper now and completely disassemble it before I put another powder in, and then I use masking tape over the lid with the powder type inside.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silly_Ghillie, post: 1550568, member: 107271"] I am fortunate enough never to have made a squib load, or miss a primer. I think this comes from my start of hand loading late, having learned from the mistakes of my peers via stories I've heard. That's a good one. when I very first started, I switched powders out of my powder hopper and unintentionally forgot to turn the cam to completely empty it. I inadvertently put about 5 ish grains of Varget with my H1000 and loaded it into a .300 WM. because both powders are extruded and similar looking, I didn't catch it. I definitely knew something had happened when I fired that sucker (which could have potentially been much worse) I got about a 2.5 foot fireball and about 125% the recoil- primer blew out, case neck was scorched, it was bad. I quadruple check my powder hopper now and completely disassemble it before I put another powder in, and then I use masking tape over the lid with the powder type inside. [/QUOTE]
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