What Is Wrong With These Pictures?

[Tin Gizel]

When i first started reloading, I had a batch of 50 that got no powder. Problem was they got dumped into a bucket....LUCKILY it didn't push the round in far enough to let the next round go into battery.....this was on a G19.

I had to go back and weight every round in a bucket of about a 1000 and threw out 200 that were questionable as to their weight and whether or not there was any powder in them.

They should have had ~5 grns powder IIRC so any less than 2gns under my benchmark weight and they got their bullets pulled.

Found the 49 others with no powder thank god....

 

[RonJon]

One nice little trick I learned to tell if a round has powder in it is to put the nose of it into your powder funnel end and holding it firmly into the end, shake it with the wide side of the funnel next to your ear. This acts like a megaphone and lets you hear even a small amount of powder moving in a small cartridge pretty clearly.

No problem with big rifle rounds, you can hear them shake even without the funnel.

This probably won't work with compressed loads, however, (but I have never tried that).

Ron

 

[mustanger98]

This is why Barney was only issued one bullet.

No, Barney got one bullet in his shirt pocket because he had a greasy trigger finger. Different problem entirely.

 

[damien]

I have had it happen on my S&W 500!

...twice!

How could you even tell? The 500 has such a mild recoil I would think a squib would not even be noticed...

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Nowdays when I reload, I charge a block of shells, then take a flashlight and make sure the powder level is the same in each case. I know, you guys with the progressive presses are laughing at me loading pistol rounds on a single stage, but I don't shoot enough to justify the expense of a progressive.

Back when I got my progressive, the cost of it wasn't much more than a high-quality single stage. I can watch every single round for powder as it indexes to station 3, where a high-intensity lamp is shining down. With .45 ACP and my pet load, it is very simple; about half of the case is filled. Using Bullseye, I watch for both low charge and double-charges. Dillon's powder bars live up to their legendary status as I've never had either.

 

[Tharg]

Thankfully my only experience with something close to this was the LAST round (thankfully) of a 10 round mag in a hi-power knockoff. the 10th round instead of ejecting the casing - managed to somehow push the casing ... in reverse... into the chamber.

(yes - no ejection - casing flipped)

i don't shoot that pistol any more....

J/Tharg!

 

[Spiff_P239]

Glad you knew better than to just pull the trigger again.