tcoz
Member
This might be a rhetorical question but here goes....Yesterday at the indoor range I frequent, I bent down to pick up some of my brass and in the next lane (which was vacant), I found two .40 S&W brass cases, the upper half of which were expanded to the size of a .45cal bullet and one of which was split down its length. Obviously somebody was loading .45 and "mistakenly" used some .40 cases. The RO confirmed this and said he had stopped the guy and asked him to leave. My question is how can this even be done? How do you flare a .40 case that much and how could you then seat the bullet and then how could you not recognize it since it would've obviously been such a strangely shaped cartridge. Would it even fit properly in a .45 magazine? With my Lee turret press and any powers of observation whatsoever, there isn't any possible way I could do that and not recognize my error somewhere along the process. I was absolutely dumbfounded by this. It also gave me pause when I thought about the number of reloaders that I see there every day and whether those panels that separate lanes would protect me in the event of a major kaboom in a lane adjacent to me. Most of you guys are much more experienced than I am so please enlighten me on how anybody could be this stupid.