Reloading oopsy

[alfsauve]

Cycle the bolt,
Hunker down behind the scope,
Adjust the bags,
Get on target,
Breathe,
Breathe,
Breathe,
Blink,
1/2 of breath
trigger,
trigger,
trigger,
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click
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wait,
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wait,
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wait,
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Remove round
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oops
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[tombogan03884]

 Forgot something ?
Things like that will make you easier to beat in the Gunman 1911 memorial match. 

[Badgersmilk]

Remember the old cartoons where they'd light the powder trail of the guy running away with a bomb?   

[alfack]

Ha. Rather have that, than one with a primer, but w/o powder. At least you didn't end up with a slug stuck in the barrel

[CJS3]

Yeah. Been there, done that.

[Sponsor]

[Rob10ring]

Being human is pretty funny! Good telling of the event.

[alfsauve]

Yes, I'd rather have a round with no primer as opposed to no powder.

While I've reloaded pistol rounds for almost 40 years now, I've only gotten into rifle rounds in the last 2 years.  The work flow is different.   I've always primed as a totally separate step using a hand primer.  It allowed a close inspection of each cast as I was priming.   And forgetting the primer has never happened with pistol rounds because, I always put the primed cases in the loading block face DOWN.  a)  I could inspect the primers and b) it might be a day or week or month before I had time to finish the reloading.    Pistol rounds are easy to flip over from one loading block to the next.  (It's why I love my 60round Flambeau blocks)

But Rifle rounds aren't as easy to flip.  Hence I cut out a step.  And now, obviously, I somehow skipped one round, even though I use two blocks and move the rounds from one to the other as I prime them.

I have unanswered questions, which I didn't think about until I got home.  
Did I forget the primer OR did the primer fall out?
Why didn't I notice the powder falling out the primer hole (H335 is small enough to pour out the hole)
What if it was a loose primer and fell out?
  If so, where is the primer now?  I didn't see it in the box or on the bench.

So moral is:   Double check things.   Powder?  Check.  I said Powder?  Double check!

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TomBogan said:  Things like that will make you easier to beat in the Gunman 1911 memorial match.

So, Tom, have you checked out my 100yds standing target?

[tombogan03884]

 That was STANDING ?
Like I was saying, you're going to be real hard to beat  
( I don't even OWN a rifle right now, so you will be impossible to beat    )

On a serious note, I use a Lee hand primer on ALL my ammo and took the priming tool off my press completely, I don't know how that would work out with a progressive set up but it kept me out of trouble with my single stage.

[Grizzle_Bear]

I may have beat that.....

Somehow I managed to ge a primer in upside down.  Pulled the trigger and got a "POP", and stood there for a full minute waiting to see if anything happened.

GB

[alfsauve]

That was STANDING ?
Like I was saying, you're going to be real hard to beat  
( I don't even OWN a rifle right now, so you will be impossible to beat    )

On a serious note, I use a Lee hand primer on ALL my ammo and took the priming tool off my press completely, I don't know how that would work out with a progressive set up but it kept me out of trouble with my single stage.

You looked at the wrong target.  Check the one without any holes.  That's the one I shot standing.

My first reloading was without the aide of carbide dies.  I just couldn't see priming in the middle of that oily mess.  So priming was always a very separate step done with either a Lee or RCBS hand tool.    Still is even with a turret press and with carbide dies.  And of course with rifle cartridges, I'm back to lubricating each round, so again, I don't want to prime an oily case.    I just have to be more careful with inspection.   And yes, I've done the backwards primer once too.