On a light note do any of you have any unusual , funny or downright scary reloading stories ?
as a couple of examples ,
A friend and I were at the range one day when a guy next to us started shooting a snubby .44 mag revolver , it was obvious from the recoil and the 5 foot of flame coming out of the barrel that something was not right , so my buddy asked him what loads he was using , he replied "dunno I just fill the cases up with Bullseye and seat the bullet down" .....We moved to the other end of the firing line and cringed for the next half hour as he expended his ammo despite our recommendations that he rethink his reloading practices.
The only reason I think that he got away with it is the fact that it was a revolver with a short barrel , if he had switched to a longer barrel or a lighter framed pistol I hate to think what would have happened , hopefully he bought himself a reloading manual after that.
Then.. just recently another buddy bought a .458 socom upper for his AR because of the cost of factory ammo he decided that he would start to reload , he has been a shooter for a long time as was his father before him but he had no personal experience in reloading , so he bought some new brass and all the other ingredients did some research on load data and set to loading up a couple of hundred rounds .
Next time we went to the range he was eager to try out his new loads so he fills up the mag puts it on the gun and racks the action ....about halfway forward the action stops and jams , he clears that round tries again , same thing ???? What the hey !! after a couple more attempts he gets a couple to chamber and they shoot fine then it jams again , this happens for a couple more mags some chamber most wont , so I ask him if I can take a look , the ones that chambered were all the same brand of brass the ones that wouldnt were a different brand , have you figured it out yet ? I point out this fact to him , he looks at me sheepishly and asks " do you resize your new brass ?" ,I start laughing hard , the ones that chambered were his once fired brass the ones that didnt were the new factory brass , he learnt a valuable lesson that day ...DONT rely on the manufacturer to get it right ! he spent a couple of nights pulling all the new loads and resizing them , since then no problems
as a couple of examples ,
A friend and I were at the range one day when a guy next to us started shooting a snubby .44 mag revolver , it was obvious from the recoil and the 5 foot of flame coming out of the barrel that something was not right , so my buddy asked him what loads he was using , he replied "dunno I just fill the cases up with Bullseye and seat the bullet down" .....We moved to the other end of the firing line and cringed for the next half hour as he expended his ammo despite our recommendations that he rethink his reloading practices.
The only reason I think that he got away with it is the fact that it was a revolver with a short barrel , if he had switched to a longer barrel or a lighter framed pistol I hate to think what would have happened , hopefully he bought himself a reloading manual after that.
Then.. just recently another buddy bought a .458 socom upper for his AR because of the cost of factory ammo he decided that he would start to reload , he has been a shooter for a long time as was his father before him but he had no personal experience in reloading , so he bought some new brass and all the other ingredients did some research on load data and set to loading up a couple of hundred rounds .
Next time we went to the range he was eager to try out his new loads so he fills up the mag puts it on the gun and racks the action ....about halfway forward the action stops and jams , he clears that round tries again , same thing ???? What the hey !! after a couple more attempts he gets a couple to chamber and they shoot fine then it jams again , this happens for a couple more mags some chamber most wont , so I ask him if I can take a look , the ones that chambered were all the same brand of brass the ones that wouldnt were a different brand , have you figured it out yet ? I point out this fact to him , he looks at me sheepishly and asks " do you resize your new brass ?" ,I start laughing hard , the ones that chambered were his once fired brass the ones that didnt were the new factory brass , he learnt a valuable lesson that day ...DONT rely on the manufacturer to get it right ! he spent a couple of nights pulling all the new loads and resizing them , since then no problems