what injury does the average reloading accident cause ?

Just don't do anything negligent (unintentionally or deliberately) this situation (case separation and stuff like that) ... :eek: You know yer #### really will fall off! :D

Sorry I could not resist! :evil:

Barney
 
Even brand new factory ammo can have a case split upon firing. The reason it is so rare is that the manufacturers follow set guidelines for making ammo. If you follow the same guidelines, which are set out in every reloading manual, your chances of an incident will be exactly the same.
 
Biggunners said:
It hurts the
pocket always
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Yep. The biggest casualty of my reloading hobby is definately my bank account. Perhaps I should include my hearing....from my wife nagging me about how much a new press costs. :rolleyes:

My worst actual injury so far is minor splatter burns while dropping fresh lead pucks into the melting pot when casting bullets.......the kind that you forget about in 10 seconds....not the kind you need medical attention for. Really, that's about it. By some miracle, I've never caught any body parts in any of my presses.
 
Injury..interesting word..
- reloading addition will injure your bank account, and social life.. eventually you'll rather trim and prep cases versus having friends over for supper and a movie..
- the addiction will usually cause the wife, or signicant other to cause some injury.. harsh words, hit on bank account, and what ever else they choose.. get her involved in both shootling, AND reloading NOW!..
- as others have said.. most common injury,, damn press trying to squeeze on a finger cause the operator had it in the wrong place...
 
the addiction will usually cause the wife, or signicant other to cause some injury.. harsh words, hit on bank account, and what ever else they choose.. get her involved in both shootling, AND reloading NOW!..


Then she will see how much stuff I have bought and stashed!

My left index finger and thumb are tender from placing brass and projectiles in my AP. My right shoulder also is wore out from pressing down the handle.

Whooooo is meV:I:
 
Spilled the beer in my lap once....

The only way to have a real icident is to double charge a pistol case or toa ccidently use pistol powder when loading rifle cases. This can be done of you use ball powders for both rifle and pistol, or dump pistol powder back into a rifle case.
 
Ive spilled the beer once already ... I'll be attaching a drink holder to the bench...

My wife likes to shoot, unfortunately she shoots a .17 HMR and a 20G so reloading is a tough sell, how ever, I did mention that I really enjoy her company and sitting out in the shop together is really important... so, we are going to put a TV out there for her to watch while I reload :)

thanx for the responses folks... I appreciate your comments.
 
Ganderite said:
Spilled the beer in my lap once....

The only way to have a real icident is to double charge a pistol case or toa ccidently use pistol powder when loading rifle cases. This can be done of you use ball powders for both rifle and pistol, or dump pistol powder back into a rifle case.
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I would add the only other real possibility would be to crush a primer and have the entire tray blow from the explosion. I use a hand primer to minimize this and wear safety glasses to keep the peepers working.

With care and attention, there really isn't much to go wrong in the process. Except for spilling your beer, now that is a tragedy.

Mark
 
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I've done a lot of pretty stupid things with guns and reloading over the decades, I've fired loads that actually welded (soldered?) the case head on to the bolt face, I've got direct experience with the gas-handling from failed cases in a Springfield 1903, Mauser '98 and Remington 700 LA, (all of them worked as designed), I've bulged the cylinder on a .357 and I've "opened-up" the choke on a shotgun.

And I will tell you this... actually "blowing-up" a gun from badly reloaded ammo isn't a matter of a small error or two, it's only something way wrong that will cause a modern, well maintained firearm to Ka-Boom on you.

Never have more than one type of powder open on your bench at any one time, really.
Wrong powder type and obstructed barrel are really the only common cause of catastrophic rifle failures (if you don't count manufacturing defects, which we really have no control over).
 
"Average" injury = 0 injury in my experience of over 30 years. I have never hear of and do not personally know of anyone injured by using handloads, ever.
 
MudChucker said:
that looks like it might have hurt a fair bit..

do you know how the accident happened ?
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The muzzle loader in question is actually a Savage designed to handle smokeless powder as well as black powder. Black powder is a lot more forgiving and doesnt have anywhere close to the burnrate or pressure. It is assumed that this guy mixed up the 2 powders, He must have thought he was loading black powder and accidently loaded the thing with smokeless powder. For reference sake it would be like having a load of real slowburning rifle powder but accidently substituting a super fast powder like Bullseye. Would be in essence creating a small bomb as the picture shows.

Moral of the story - CHECK and DOUBLE CHECK before starting to load any ammunition.
 
Splatter said:
I've done a lot of pretty stupid things with guns and reloading over the decades, I've fired loads that actually welded (soldered?) the case head on to the bolt face, I've got direct experience with the gas-handling from failed cases in a Springfield 1903, Mauser '98 and Remington 700 LA, (all of them worked as designed), I've bulged the cylinder on a .357 and I've "opened-up" the choke on a shotgun.

And I will tell you this... actually "blowing-up" a gun from badly reloaded ammo isn't a matter of a small error or two, it's only something way wrong that will cause a modern, well maintained firearm to Ka-Boom on you.

Never have more than one type of powder open on your bench at any one time, really.
Wrong powder type and obstructed barrel are really the only common cause of catastrophic rifle failures (if you don't count manufacturing defects, which we really have no control over).
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:rockOn: this is the best answer so far
 
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