Just thought I'd share.

[LawrenceN]

Been a busy couple of days. I reloaded 100 rnds. of .44 Russian (200gr.) and about 60 rnds. of .308 which is 12 different 5 rnd. lots with different mixes of powder/projectiles as test loads to see what my Weatherby likes the most. Next trip to range is going to be fun!

 

[partial]

sorry to say, but you forgot to seat the primers.

 

[Armourall]

He only missed 46....

 

[LawrenceN]

sorry to say, but you forgot to seat the primers.

The unprimed cases are for my buddy's .45 ACP. I'm not prepping them until we determine which load his pistol like the most. I usually don't prime my cases until I'm actually ready to do a run of ammo. I assume you were being cutsie with that comment.

 

[partial]

In that case, everything seems to be fine.

Just want to avoid you hitting the range, then finding out that the primers are missing.

 

[Ganderite]

My son loaded 50 rounds of match 308 for me. No powder...

Never again.

 

[A&Shuntr]

My son loaded 50 rounds of match 308 for me. No powder...

Never again.

Hope you weren't too rough on him, Children seem to remember certain things when they are choosing your old age home.....

 

[65cutlass]

Hope you weren't too rough on him, Children seem to remember certain things when they are choosing your old age home.....

Wisdom

 

[RifleDude]

My son loaded 50 rounds of match 308 for me. No powder...

Never again.

Once in my 50+ years of reloading I put the primers in upsidedown in a batch of .223. Took them to a service rifle match and then wondered why they didn't fire. I made myself useful by assisting the RO and still made the best of that day. Oh well....lesson learned, it never happened again.

 

[partial]

My son loaded 50 rounds of match 308 for me. No powder...

Never again.

At least the powder charge was very consistent.

 

[bearhunter]

My son loaded 50 rounds of match 308 for me. No powder...

Never again.

Did you notice it right away? Likely with your experience you did.

Several years ago, a fellow brought me a rifle with three bullets jammed into the bore of his rifle. It was his first rifle and the fellow he purchased it from gave him a box of his "cast" bullet hand loads so that he could get used to the trigger etc without much recoil.

After the third round was fired, he couldn't get another round to chamber, so he came directly from the local range to my place to find out what the issue was.

The cast lead bullets tapped out quite easily with a brass rod. Not even any lead fouling that was noticeable and didn't have to disassemble the rifle to get them out.

It's amazing how much power a primer, all by itself, has.