MoreIsLess
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I learned a valuable lesson, almost the hard way. I was at the range testing out some reloads that I had made for my M&P 45c. A friend of mine, who is an experienced shooter, wanted to shoot my gun so I let him (I am actually surprised he would be willing to shoot reloads made by somebody else, especially knowing that I am a novice reloader). He fired 3 or 4 shots out of it fine and then a squibber. Following the squibber, the next bullet wouldn't feed, so he pulled back the slide to eject it and then the next one wouldn't feed either, nor the next one or the next one. We just figured that the OAL was to long or maybe they weren't crimped enough. When I got home I go to looking at my gun and I noticed that there was a bullet lodged in the barrel, apparently the squibber. It was a good thing the gun the gun wouldn't feed the rounds subsequent to the squibber or my friend probably would have shot the gun with a bullet lodged in the barrel.
I remembered that when I was at home loading the rounds that I had turned off the powder measure on the Lee powder thru expanding die to go eat dinner and then when I came back from dinner I forgot to turn it back on, so I ended up with one or two rounds with no powder in them. I didn't think much about it as I had always been more concerned with putting too much powder in a round so I didn't think much could happen except it wouldn't go bang. Boy was I wrong.
I am a little "gun shy" about reloading now so I think I am gioing to turn the auto indexing off on my Lee turret press and use batch processing to load the rounds so I can see the powder in each round as I look at them in the tray. Hopefully this will help somebody else avoid a disaster like the one that almost occured.
I remembered that when I was at home loading the rounds that I had turned off the powder measure on the Lee powder thru expanding die to go eat dinner and then when I came back from dinner I forgot to turn it back on, so I ended up with one or two rounds with no powder in them. I didn't think much about it as I had always been more concerned with putting too much powder in a round so I didn't think much could happen except it wouldn't go bang. Boy was I wrong.
I am a little "gun shy" about reloading now so I think I am gioing to turn the auto indexing off on my Lee turret press and use batch processing to load the rounds so I can see the powder in each round as I look at them in the tray. Hopefully this will help somebody else avoid a disaster like the one that almost occured.