First off let me start by saying that I am pretty anal and careful when it comes to loading.
I went to the loading room to make up some 6.5-08 rounds for tomorrow, I went to my powder cupboard and grabbed the powder I wanted to use and took it to my bench.
When I got to the bench I had another pound of powder on their so I took it and put it on the floor beside me so I wouldn't inadvertantly use it or dump the dispenser into it when I was done (only 1 powder type on the bench at a time).
I filled up my powder dispenser with my chosen powder and started to go town filling cases and seating bullets.
I was on round 30 when for some reason I grabbed the powder bottle to take a look at (I really had no reason to do this other than the fact that I did it), I realized at this time that I had grabbed IMR 4895 out of the cupboard instead of IMR 4350 and loaded the cases with far more of the 4895 than would have been safe. Since I don't use IMR that often, the label and lid color did not clue me in.
Quickload estimated this would have been a 90,000+ PSI load.
Maybe it was Intuition or 6th Sense, but something made me pick up the bottle and look at the label.
I guess my mind was elsewhere when I was going through the cupboard to choose my powder in the first place.
Needless to say I pulled all the bullets, dumped the cases, cleaned the powder all up and got the right powder out so I could finish what I had started.
I just wanted to post this to remind people that you can never be too careful in making sure everything you have on your bench is EXACTLY what you want. Never hurts to double check.
I shudder to think what could have happened had I not realized I had the wrong powder in the cases.
STAY SAFE!!!!
I went to the loading room to make up some 6.5-08 rounds for tomorrow, I went to my powder cupboard and grabbed the powder I wanted to use and took it to my bench.
When I got to the bench I had another pound of powder on their so I took it and put it on the floor beside me so I wouldn't inadvertantly use it or dump the dispenser into it when I was done (only 1 powder type on the bench at a time).
I filled up my powder dispenser with my chosen powder and started to go town filling cases and seating bullets.
I was on round 30 when for some reason I grabbed the powder bottle to take a look at (I really had no reason to do this other than the fact that I did it), I realized at this time that I had grabbed IMR 4895 out of the cupboard instead of IMR 4350 and loaded the cases with far more of the 4895 than would have been safe. Since I don't use IMR that often, the label and lid color did not clue me in.
Quickload estimated this would have been a 90,000+ PSI load.
Maybe it was Intuition or 6th Sense, but something made me pick up the bottle and look at the label.
I guess my mind was elsewhere when I was going through the cupboard to choose my powder in the first place.
Needless to say I pulled all the bullets, dumped the cases, cleaned the powder all up and got the right powder out so I could finish what I had started.
I just wanted to post this to remind people that you can never be too careful in making sure everything you have on your bench is EXACTLY what you want. Never hurts to double check.
I shudder to think what could have happened had I not realized I had the wrong powder in the cases.
STAY SAFE!!!!
