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Member Section => Reloading => Topic started by: billt on March 25, 2015, 10:09:55 AM
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Ask him how many rounds per hour he reloads now. If you do this be sure to stop long enough to clear the flesh and bone out of the case. Otherwise you risk powder contamination!
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Same problem as on a Heager, or PEM insert machine. Never been that careless myself (close calls don't count ;D ) But I've seen others do it.
They say it hurts.
I believe them ;D
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Watched a temp kid lose some of his thumb on a PEM machine! It hurt, I witnessed his pain!
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Don't look at it...only hurts when you do! At least it hurts when I look at it!!!!!!
Richard
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You think LOOKING at it hurts ?
Think about "extraction. :o
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Hopefully they will give him something for the pain! I get nothing!!!!! LOL
Richard
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What was he loading? Case looks very small or he has monster sized hands.
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It looks like a small, rimmed, slightly tapered or bottlenecked case. .32-20 perhaps? Or at least something along those lines. It came off the Cast Boolit Forum. So I'm guessing whoever it is, they most likely intended to load cast bullets in it. That's why I guessed .32-20.
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This looks really painful and I'm thinking the case went through a bone and he's in for allot of swelling. I've worked with robotics and machinery all of my life and one must respect that a machine will do its thing weather your in the way or not. Guards are put on machines because operators are not always paying attention. If you design a power drive for anything always put in safe guards and never trust the safe guards when operating the machine.
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Naaaahhh....I like my Lee turret press. I put the casing in the mount, feel each stage, set the bullet on top of the casing, feel the set, feel the crimp... I KNOW my ammo with the simple system, and it hasn't bitten me yet.
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..., and it hasn't bitten me yet.
My only serious injury reloading has been a case that cut almost to the bone. It was a .45ACP on a single stage press, btw. It doesn't take fancy automated equipment to do something stupid, like putting your finger on top of a case as you resize it. Been there. Done that.
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My only serious injury reloading has been a case that cut almost to the bone. It was a .45ACP on a single stage press, btw. It doesn't take fancy automated equipment to do something stupid, like putting your finger on top of a case as you resize it. Been there. Done that.
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Been there and done that. When I first started reloading 43 years ago. Nothing like a decapping thru your finger to get the blood pressure up. A short moment of panic then hit my finger with my other hand to knock it loose put a bandaid on it and kept on reloading.
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My only injury reloading was when I left a 10lb sledge hammer on the top shelf of my reloading bench and it joggled loose while using the press, fell and hit a full primer tube, igniting the primers.
Two pieces of shrapnel in the palm of my hand, and one under the skin below the nail on my index finger.
Was very faint after it, so drove to a hospital at 11:00PM for treatment.
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Our most serious injury reloading was when a spilled shot fell into the primer seating pocket on a MEC9000. At the sound of the bang, all four presses stopped, we all looked at each other with stunned faces, we realized all four were still upright (nobody breathing at this point), but one press had smoke rolling up around the bottles.
No physical damage, but lots of soiled unddies.
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My only injury reloading was when I left a 10lb sledge hammer on the top shelf of my reloading bench and it joggled loose while using the press, fell and hit a full primer tube, igniting the primers.
Two pieces of shrapnel in the palm of my hand, and one under the skin below the nail on my index finger.
Was very faint after it, so drove to a hospital at 11:00PM for treatment.
Was the faintness caused by the unexpected sudden, and possibly excessive, volume loss from the lower bowel area?
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I think I've got the dumbest injury, I was trimming cases and wiped the dust off with my finger. Duh !
Cut a perfect circle in my finger tip. Only did it ONCE though, so it proves I'm not a democrat.
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..... A short moment of panic then hit my finger with my other hand to knock it loose put a band-aid on it and kept on reloading.
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I sucked the dirt out of my wound, liberally applying saliva, kept pressure on it, found a gauze pad and 10 yds of narrow tape and was back at it a few minutes later. I've never put my finger on top of a case to be sized since. ;)
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Naaaahhh....I like my Lee turret press. I put the casing in the mount, feel each stage, set the bullet on top of the casing, feel the set, feel the crimp... I KNOW my ammo with the simple system, and it hasn't bitten me yet.
HAHAHA! I had to come back just to let you all know that last night my Lee turret press bit me!
I was maybe a little asleep at the wheel and had my left index finger on top of the casing when I went to punch out the old primer. ouch!
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Welcome to the club.
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Naaaahhh....I like my Lee turret press. I put the casing in the mount, feel each stage, set the bullet on top of the casing, feel the set, feel the crimp... I KNOW my ammo with the simple system, and it hasn't bitten me yet.
Never say things like that Jay.
It's like having Vito Corleone kiss your cheeks ;D
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Was the faintness caused by the unexpected sudden, and possibly excessive, volume loss from the lower bowel area?
Actually it was pain. Wounds were in my right hand and I got the embedded pieces out of my palm, but I was not coordinated enough to get the piece out from under the skin on my right index finger with my left hand...
I am fairly tolerant of pain, have had root canal dentistry without pain killers, but was disoriented..not sure what to do.
Went to hospital and had to convince the emergency room doctor that being injured reloading was not a firearms injury and the police didn't need to be called.
Sent me to x-ray and were gonna work on removing the bits. Gave me a local anesthetic, looked some more and decided they needed more x-rays.
Got back and anesthetic had worn off, but I told them I was find...just wanted to get out there.
They went up with tweezers to get the pieces out from between the skin and bone and then stuffed some gauze up in the space and taped it all up and went me home.
Never even twitched my finger. I am good an enduring pain...been married twice.... :D
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I don't recall any serious injury from reloading, I tend to actively forget injuries for my wife's sake. But I do recall trying to prime a 45ACP small primer case with a large primer on my Lyman Turret, almost got it seated before it went BANG! Took a break for an hour then proceeded to reload, after sorting out small primer brass and developing a "feel" for small primers-which has paid off now that I've stepped up to a Dillon 550. ;)