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Around 30 years ago ,I was loading some 38's with a compressed load .
My daughter (3 y/o)liked to watch me load .
I had 50 cases in the block ready to put the powder in ,when i got a phone call .
While I was on the phone ,she decided to help Daddy .[;)]
Sh was chewing some of the Chicklets mini gum pieces .
She put a piece in each case !
It sealed tight against the primer hole when I added the powder .
At the range (needless to say )I had problems .
When i got home and pulled them down ,I had a good laugh .[:D]
quote:Originally posted by joker19
If you ever have a bullet stick in the barrel due to no powder, DO NOT POUND IT OUT!!!!!!!!! Take it to a gunsmith and let them drill it out, pounding it out causes metal fatique to the barrel and it will fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can not cause metal fatigue by pounding a bullet out. Fatigue happens at above the glass temperature of materials. Could you cause damage to the rifling? Yes, maybe but not barrel fatigue.
quote:Originally posted by shoff14
quote:Originally posted by joker19
If you ever have a bullet stick in the barrel due to no powder, DO NOT POUND IT OUT!!!!!!!!! Take it to a gunsmith and let them drill it out, pounding it out causes metal fatique to the barrel and it will fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can not cause metal fatigue by pounding a bullet out. Fatigue happens at above the glass temperature of materials. Could you cause damage to the rifling? Yes, maybe but not barrel fatigue.
You don't want to pound it out, because as I stated above, it will get peened into the barrel.
put this down in the Bad Days book...I had loaded some 30/40 Krag rounds. While at the range a round wouldn't go in all the way in the chamber, then I couldn't get it out...so, I just bumped the bolt handle lightly on the edge of the wooden shooting bench to try to pull the bolt back...pop, the bolt handle broke right off...and I really felt stupid, when all I had to do is stick a screwdriver between the bolt face and the reciever opening and easily pry it back...another lesson learned...
quote:Originally posted by trapguy2007
Around 30 years ago ,I was loading some 38's with a compressed load .
My daughter (3 y/o)liked to watch me load .
I had 50 cases in the block ready to put the powder in ,when i got a phone call .
While I was on the phone ,she decided to help Daddy .[;)]
Sh was chewing some of the Chicklets mini gum pieces .
She put a piece in each case !
It sealed tight against the primer hole when I added the powder .
At the range (needless to say )I had problems .
When i got home and pulled them down ,I had a good laugh .[:D]
I have heard reasons for not using a block, but this one takes the cake. [:D]
quote:Originally posted by joker19
If you ever have a bullet stick in the barrel due to no powder, DO NOT POUND IT OUT!!!!!!!!! Take it to a gunsmith and let them drill it out, pounding it out causes metal fatique to the barrel and it will fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So how is this different than 'slugging' an barrel? Wood dowels and a hammer to dislodge the bullet. Drill in a barrel? I'm not a gunsmith but that just does not sound right.
quote:Originally posted by utbrowningman
You guys are making me nervous to pick up reloading.
The benefits and fun far outweigh the risk...Honestly, as long as you use your head and wear proper safety equipment, serious accidents are very rare.
The only death I know of is the glass jar full of primers, but that was a very unfortunate lapse of reason. Glass jars or glass anything have no place in reloading.
OK, here's mine. Have been reloading for years and have experienced most of the uh-ohs of the hobby. This one caused a short spike in my blood pressure. I hand prime all my rifle cases and every once in a while drop a couple, but then, who hasn't. Sometimes, they all can't be found and are forgotten about. OK, somtimes I get a little sloppy. I use an old barstool with wooden legs at the reloading bench. One evening I'm sitting on the stool reloading and go to pull the stool closer to the bench and POW. One of the misplaced primers had embedded itself into the bottom of one leg. Blew a quarter size hole of concrete from the floor. Anyone need a three and one-half legged barstool?
I have an indoor-outdoor type rug on the floor of my workshop where I reload. I had a primer flip tray slip when I was putting the lid on and dropped a few. I found 99.9% of them. My wife found the rest when she vacuumed.
I have those textured gym mats that you put together like a puzzle. They work well to cushion falling primers, tools, etc, but act as a trampoline. If you don't watch the item fall, there is no way you will be able to find it under 5 minutes.
OK some of this reading is too funny (some is scary) For those of you that think that running a drill bit down a barrel is better than tapping it out. Well, all I can say is you need to bring your weapon to me. I'll take it in the back and while the drill press is whirring away, I'll gently tap out stuck bullet. Then I'll do a complete D.A.C.O and charge you fifty bucks.
If you have a smith that REALLY drills out stuck lead rounds you need to find a more professional craftsman.
I keep literally dozens of brass punches of different diameters and nose profiles for doing this.
Anyone that loads much should at least have a wooden dowel of appropriate diameter.
quote:Originally posted by gknaka2
I'm at work and bored. Last night I was decapping .45 cases and punctured my thumb, all the way to the die face. Hurts like a mother.
Want to hear some stories from you all on some harrowing experiences at the reloading bench...
This one comes to mind from a long time ago. I was about 14 years old and went along with some older cousins who were plinking with a new .38...they stuck a half dollar on a tree between a couple small nails...I was standing about 10 feet behind the shooter and can still see that half dollar spinning end-over-end right past my head...missed me by about 2"...we found it embedded about 6" in the soft ground about 10' behind me...and yes, that was the last time I ever went along with them...
quote:Originally posted by perry shooter
I once bought 6 one hundred pound drums of 4831 surplus powder at $55.00 per 100 pounds. I transported it in my small car one drum in right-hand front bucket seat three drums just fit standing up side by side rear seat and two drums in trunk . I had over 100 mile trip and smoked a pipe at that time I gave up smoking for 3 hours. If I had not quit smoking for the trip most likely someone else would have written about this accident that was waiting to happen [:0][:0][:0][:0]
600 Lbs!?!?!?!
I think I'm now as about as jealous as I could be to have that much powder. Moving it 100 miles in a car. WOW! You know you couldn't explain that one away these days to anyone that pulled you over!
Hello 1988 Z01 now if you really want a laugh . I bet you won't even come close to guessing the price. Not even any where near close scroll down THOSE were the GREAT days of reloading .
Would you believe $55.00 per 100 pound drum. THAT'S right 55? per pound [:0]
I bought a bunch of one gallon new empty paint cans $1.00 each from a Sherwin Williams paint store. 8 pounds to a can and sold 500 pounds at gun show $20.00 a can . I would take 25 cans to each show and sell out in first hour Was a great way to get people to look at other stuff I had for sale.. I used to go to auctions when gun stores closed up and buy big lots of stuff . . I made good money then but of course that was over 30 years ago . Still better then the stock market . I still have bunches of Bullets but they are too heavy to pack and unpack for gun shows. I don't see how ammo and book dealers can do it .
serious situation turned "funny?"a friend of mine needed a small funnel to fill an unfilled sand bag and decided to use a "primed" 270 empty,duh he put it in a vice on his bench and after just a couple pushes with a hack saw the instant heat from the brass fired the primer out of the case and it went through both sides of his t-shirt under his armpit and into a white paint spray can which immediately rolled across his loading bench spraying everything in it's path,luckily he wasn't harmed but a lot of cleanup was required.just a note of caution,brass turns hot very quickly when cut with a saw.
1976 at Camp Lejuene,1/2,just off two years of sea-duty CV64, bought a Lee Loader in the 4"x5" red box for my New Ruger Blackhawk .44mag. First night I jammed a semi-seated bullet and case in the wrong die, (do NOT reload after a week in the field and a six-pack on that Friday night) so I figured I could just drop a little oil down there and drill out the bullet with an electric hand drill, and the oil would be a fail safe to 'kill' the powder in case the bit went thru. Well the drill bit went thru and hit the primer before the oil killed anything, when detenation occured several things happened; the bullet with a 1/8" hole in the middle was guided straight up the drill-bit smashing the chucks into the drill and launching the drill to where it remained stuck in the ceiling of our trailer house. The .44 case went thru the top of the dresser (That was my work-bench, I was poor, oK??) and thru every drawer in that dresser and finally stopped in the linolium floor. The die acted as a chamber/barrel. That I didn't get my fool head shot off, or at least my hand is a miracle, but God had me picking pieces of lead (the bullet shattered when it hit the drill chucks I figure) out of my face, arms hands, and chest for a couple weeks. Told my skipper a old round went off in the BBQ over the week-end, he knew me from the 'old days', and didn't push it to hard but he figured I was BSin him, but he owed me so he let it slide. That one incident has saved me from countless other mistakes at the bench. It scared me so bad that I still stop and think, then wait and think some more. What a stupid way to have been killed, shot at a hundred times and missed and then shot and killed with the round I am reloading, what the hell could they have put on my tombstone? "The Idiot saved the gene pool?"
Great. Just frikin great. I'm this close to purchasing rcbs reloading equipment, and you guys post all this bad crap that happens after or during reloading. Now I'm thinking about forgetting the whole reloading idea, I like my fingers, hearing, etc.
quote:Originally posted by floorguy24
Great. Just frikin great. I'm this close to purchasing rcbs reloading equipment, and you guys post all this bad crap that happens after or during reloading. Now I'm thinking about forgetting the whole reloading idea, I like my fingers, hearing, etc.
quote:Originally posted by floorguy24
Great. Just frikin great. I'm this close to purchasing rcbs reloading equipment, and you guys post all this bad crap that happens after or during reloading. Now I'm thinking about forgetting the whole reloading idea, I like my fingers, hearing, etc.
Don't worry... Really, you got 10 fingers to start with and hearing is highly overrated.[;)]
O ya and get a blue press[:D]
The only "Oops " I can recall is having to pull a couple of hundred rounds that were udercharged. I also had a few FTF situations, but I think that was due to the powder being fouled by case lube.
In later efforts I used less lube and did a more thorough job of wiping, before I switched to carbide dies. Then of course my lube problems were over.
GH1[:)]
Replenishing the lead in the pot while casting bullets. Apparently there was a little condensation on the piece I put in. Of course, instantly turned to steam. The funny thing was: Only a few tiny spatters on the fingers of my hand and a LOT on the back of my shirt! I was half way across the basement before my next thought. Apparently I was pretty fast in those days.
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My daughter (3 y/o)liked to watch me load .
I had 50 cases in the block ready to put the powder in ,when i got a phone call .
While I was on the phone ,she decided to help Daddy .[;)]
Sh was chewing some of the Chicklets mini gum pieces .
She put a piece in each case !
It sealed tight against the primer hole when I added the powder .
At the range (needless to say )I had problems .
When i got home and pulled them down ,I had a good laugh .[:D]
If you ever have a bullet stick in the barrel due to no powder, DO NOT POUND IT OUT!!!!!!!!! Take it to a gunsmith and let them drill it out, pounding it out causes metal fatique to the barrel and it will fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can not cause metal fatigue by pounding a bullet out. Fatigue happens at above the glass temperature of materials. Could you cause damage to the rifling? Yes, maybe but not barrel fatigue.
quote:Originally posted by joker19
If you ever have a bullet stick in the barrel due to no powder, DO NOT POUND IT OUT!!!!!!!!! Take it to a gunsmith and let them drill it out, pounding it out causes metal fatique to the barrel and it will fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can not cause metal fatigue by pounding a bullet out. Fatigue happens at above the glass temperature of materials. Could you cause damage to the rifling? Yes, maybe but not barrel fatigue.
You don't want to pound it out, because as I stated above, it will get peened into the barrel.
Around 30 years ago ,I was loading some 38's with a compressed load .
My daughter (3 y/o)liked to watch me load .
I had 50 cases in the block ready to put the powder in ,when i got a phone call .
While I was on the phone ,she decided to help Daddy .[;)]
Sh was chewing some of the Chicklets mini gum pieces .
She put a piece in each case !
It sealed tight against the primer hole when I added the powder .
At the range (needless to say )I had problems .
When i got home and pulled them down ,I had a good laugh .[:D]
I have heard reasons for not using a block, but this one takes the cake. [:D]
If you ever have a bullet stick in the barrel due to no powder, DO NOT POUND IT OUT!!!!!!!!! Take it to a gunsmith and let them drill it out, pounding it out causes metal fatique to the barrel and it will fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So how is this different than 'slugging' an barrel? Wood dowels and a hammer to dislodge the bullet. Drill in a barrel? I'm not a gunsmith but that just does not sound right.
You guys are making me nervous to pick up reloading.
The benefits and fun far outweigh the risk...Honestly, as long as you use your head and wear proper safety equipment, serious accidents are very rare.
The only death I know of is the glass jar full of primers, but that was a very unfortunate lapse of reason. Glass jars or glass anything have no place in reloading.
I prime very close to my car. What would happen if I ran over a primer?
She wasn't happy.
If you have a smith that REALLY drills out stuck lead rounds you need to find a more professional craftsman.
I keep literally dozens of brass punches of different diameters and nose profiles for doing this.
Anyone that loads much should at least have a wooden dowel of appropriate diameter.
I'm at work and bored. Last night I was decapping .45 cases and punctured my thumb, all the way to the die face. Hurts like a mother.
Want to hear some stories from you all on some harrowing experiences at the reloading bench...
done that!!!!!!!!!!
I once bought 6 one hundred pound drums of 4831 surplus powder at $55.00 per 100 pounds. I transported it in my small car one drum in right-hand front bucket seat three drums just fit standing up side by side rear seat and two drums in trunk . I had over 100 mile trip and smoked a pipe at that time I gave up smoking for 3 hours. If I had not quit smoking for the trip most likely someone else would have written about this accident that was waiting to happen [:0][:0][:0][:0]
600 Lbs!?!?!?!
I think I'm now as about as jealous as I could be to have that much powder. Moving it 100 miles in a car. WOW! You know you couldn't explain that one away these days to anyone that pulled you over!
I think my biggest accident was grabbing 4831 instead of 4198 for 100 rounds of 22 hornets. Had to pull em all.
Would you believe $55.00 per 100 pound drum. THAT'S right 55? per pound [:0]
Would you believe $55.00 per 100 pound drum. THAT'S right 55? per pound [:0]
How long did it take u to go through all that? or did u give some away?
Great. Just frikin great. I'm this close to purchasing rcbs reloading equipment, and you guys post all this bad crap that happens after or during reloading. Now I'm thinking about forgetting the whole reloading idea, I like my fingers, hearing, etc.
But notice how we still do it...it's a passion
Great. Just frikin great. I'm this close to purchasing rcbs reloading equipment, and you guys post all this bad crap that happens after or during reloading. Now I'm thinking about forgetting the whole reloading idea, I like my fingers, hearing, etc.
Don't worry... Really, you got 10 fingers to start with and hearing is highly overrated.[;)]
O ya and get a blue press[:D]
In later efforts I used less lube and did a more thorough job of wiping, before I switched to carbide dies. Then of course my lube problems were over.
GH1[:)]