Wear Safety Glasses and think about what your doing

I like to hear others have had issue and were not injured but it proves that it can happen to everyone, you might be lucky for 50 years but one day it might be a simple distraction and pop.

. But also being new...I'm learning through two mentors, someone else following youtube won't find that valuable lessons on what feels right. Before working with my mentors I would watch youtube to see what reloading was about.. Watching some videos it looks like you have to apply a lot of force to prime and seat. But when working with a mentor, I learned different. Beginners following youtube to start is a bad idea cause you can't learn what feels right, a mentor will tell you to easy up or show you how easy it is.

If you have a story about a reloading accident... Please share, it could save someone's life
 
Call me a skeptic, but I've seen too many stories from elsewhere, supported by pics that could be of anything, to believe them all at face value. Broken cheek bone?

You're just the messenger, but which "other forum" is that from?
 
Andy said:
Call me a skeptic, but I've seen too many stories from elsewhere, supported by pics that could be of anything, to believe them all at face value. Broken cheek bone?

You're just the messenger, but which "other forum" is that from?
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I'm curious too. How's the hand that was holding on to this uber-explosive device? If a trayful of primers went off, I hate to see the hand that's holding on to said tray! And did I read it right in that the user had the primer ram turned the wrong way around?
 
If you quoted my first post and copy and paste the picture link in google it should take you to the forum thread on cdn.firearmstalk.com and it was a forum member on here that had the ram the wrong way.
 
ciphery said:
Not sure why but something I've noticed is that the RCBS hand primer uses a plunger with a radius on it!!!!
Why! A flat ram is used on the press and a radiused one only increases the pressure directly over the primers anvil.
Crunch boom! Ya no thanks. I'll stick to on at a time in the press.
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Turn the rod around so that flat part is up.
 
I too used the RCBS hand priming tool until it blew a primer and about 20 additional primers. all felt right, and it went off blowing the plastic part to bits, but not injuring my face fortunately. From now on its one at a time on the co-ax for me, nothing is worth losing your sight over. I have done 10's of thousands and all felt right, have no idea what happened as no extra force was used, and the tool is set up right. I was using large pistol CCI primers, had just reloaded the tray with 100 so it could have been worse, It was one bang.
 
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