me go boom.

albertacoyotecaller said:
I just got my progressive press going and I am reloading 40 and I bought 4 lbs of titegroup to start but now I am thinking I would like to switch to another powder so if I double charge I will notice it.

Any suggestions for 40 and 180 grainers?
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Longshot allows you to have a range between 6.5 and 8 grns which should prevent missing a double throw. you can make major with 7 grains, so you have lots of room to play before you hit max or min load. That's with 180 grain bullet btw!
 
ben hunchak said:
This is not acceptable, I think you should fall back and regroup, change your focus, check and sort brass by manu. and possibly by weight, inspect cases. Check out your bullets for dia. and consistancy, primer seating should be a tight fit or throw out the case. If you are using a progressive machine you are going to try to find a way to eliminate any chance of a double charge, what happens if you double or short stroke your press? If you think i'm being a #### that's fine, it's your eyes and face. In over 40 years of reloading and experimenting I have never had this happen and if I did I'd like to think I would follow my own advise.
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I am with BEN on this...you were lucky this time. But take it seriously and change your reloading ways and procedures.:mad:
 
Well Cliff...

Januea and Ben H. have shaken their finger at you. You're a bad boy. You must cease and desist your reloading immediately. :kickInTheNuts:
You must sell your two Dillon 1050s to me for $100 each, and start over on a lee single stage press. :dancingbanana: (NO ROCKCHUCKER FOR YOU!!)

Forget about that 30,000 rounds a year you load. :slap:

You're going to start micro analyzing every round as they're produced. Think benchrest rifle reloading...;)

If you're lucky, you'll get to win your second National Championship title in about 15 years. :D

Glad you're OK, See you at the Florida Open!:wave:
 
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Hey Sean you find it funny that some poeples are concern with the reloading habit of a former Production Nationals Champion... :) by the way he doesn't have two 1050......the lucky b%$#%r has 4 1050......but if he sell two of them to you I will buy the left over for 500.00....including his resizer....:dancingbanana: :sniper:
 
Dansy said:
Hey Sean you find it funny that some poeples are concern with the reloading habit of a former Production Nationals Champion... :) by the way he doesn't have two 1050......the lucky b%$#%r has 4 1050......but if he sell two of them to you I will buy the left over for 500.00....including his resizer....:dancingbanana: :sniper:
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DEAL!!! - Cliff - Caugh 'em up!!!:evil:
 
Ok, gun has been cleaned and inspected, no cracks, bulges or weird marks. checked the press, like someone said it is almost impossible to throw a double charge on a 1050, and I have good lighting, so probably would see it if I did. But nothing is 100% so that is a possibility. But I am left with bad case, foriegn object in case or possibly an obstruction in barrel. There was a round earlier in the match where the casing on the frontier bullet separated in flight. We found the copper shell lodged in an adjacent no shoot. So maybe a peice of casing was left in barrel to cause a pressure problem. Would it cause the result I had, don't know. Gun will be tested later this week, but it looks good. Think I caused more upset to my RO cause I turned away and he could not see what had happened to me, so he grabbed me and took my pistol away, which I will note proudly I kept mounted and pointed downrange.
 
Freedom Ventures said:
Well Cliff...

Januea and Ben H. have shaken their finger at you. You're a bad boy. You must cease and desist your reloading immediately. :kickInTheNuts:
You must sell your two Dillon 1050s to me for $100 each, and start over on a lee single stage press. :dancingbanana: (NO ROCKCHUCKER FOR YOU!!)

Forget about that 30,000 rounds a year you load. :slap:

You're going to start micro analyzing every round as they're produced. Think benchrest rifle reloading...;)

If you're lucky, you'll get to win your second National Championship title in about 15 years. :D

Glad you're OK, See you at the Florida Open!:wave:
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s**t happen....:runaway: New pair of progressive corrective glass might make wonder in this case..LOL :shotgun:
 
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Glad you are OK. Have had two of my own. Double charges will do that to you. Cure for me was to change how I set my powder measure in my Progressive. No matter how careful you are you can always make a mistake so I have adopted the principle that what ever I am doing I am always looking ways to improve. The minute you become complaccent is the time things go boom. I keep my case that looks like yours on my bench as a reminder.

Take Care

Bob
 
for those not so experienced at reloading on progressives probably the simplest rule is this, "anytime something strange happens, pull ever case off the press, and start new". Then when you are done deal with those 4, 5 or 6 cases you yanked.
 
Powder checker

Hello and Good Morning Boyz.

I mostly load 38 super till the case is practically full for open class. But I also load a bit of 40 and understand the potential for a double load.

I was wondering if anyone has experience with the case checker or powder checker from Dillon and would it resolve any potential double loads.
 
aaudet said:
Hello and Good Morning Boyz.

I mostly load 38 super till the case is practically full for open class. But I also load a bit of 40 and understand the potential for a double load.

I was wondering if anyone has experience with the case checker or powder checker from Dillon and would it resolve any potential double loads.
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I have the powder check system on my 650, loading for .38 super, .40 and 9mm it is probably as close to fool proof as you're going to get. I'd recommend it.
 
WE ought npt go down the road of detonation to far. This is something that has never been able to be duplcated in labs no matter how are they tried. SEE is a different matter but that really is just a situation where the gun reacts the same way it would with a blocked barrel and is not detonaton. Pretty difficult to do in a small pistol cartrige. Happens though in rifle cartridges.

Take Care

Bob
 
4 1050's ??!!!!! At 30,000 rds a year you are bound to have a KABOOM sooner or later.

With 4 1050's, I imagine each one is set up for a single calibre. Do you use bullet feeders on them as well?
 
Canuck44 said:
WE ought npt go down the road of detonation to far. This is something that has never been able to be duplcated in labs no matter how are they tried. SEE is a different matter but that really is just a situation where the gun reacts the same way it would with a blocked barrel and is not detonaton. Pretty difficult to do in a small pistol cartrige. Happens though in rifle cartridges.

Take Care

Bob
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Bob:

I seen the results of a detonation with a .38Special. Not pretty, but no one hurt, besides the gun being destroyed, a perfectly good pair of underware was ruined.
 
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