I have personally witnessed a GI blowing the flash suppressor off & split the barrel on an M-14 with
a case full of blank powder! He suffered enough injury's to get light duty for a day or two.
I suppose you could call it a reload, because he took the powder out of several blanks and put it all in one case.
He didn't have tested load data for it though!
Saw a couple of different guys get a handful of grip splinters when a 1911 case let go.
Amateur gun-smithing feed ramp jobs and factory ammo. :banghead:
A friend got a face full of brass & powder gas with an overloaded 30-06 in an 03 Springfield once.
Too much of a good thing!
A guy here in town lost some fingers to an old Damascus shotgun and factory trap loads years ago.
Not the fault of the ammo, or the good advice he had been given about not shooting it!
Another good friend suffered third degree burns all over his body, and lost his ears and nose to a 20 pound keg of shotgun powder. He eventually died from his injuries a couple years later.
He left the lid off the drum with it setting under his bench grinder!
I suppose it could be called a reloading accident, but it was more due to terminal stupidity on his part.
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