Dumb sh** you do.

Waited forever for my Lee collet dies to come in, when they did the VERY FIRST piece of brass I went to size went between the decapping pin and the die body, and bent the decapping pin.

Had to wait another 3 weeks for replacement pins.
 
Mad_Mikee said:
Adding powder to my RCBS Chargemaster and not remembering to close the dump gate on the bottom. Powder in, powder out. Just that fast. Argh!!!
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Did that, several times.

And did most of the other boo boos listed above. The most annoying is spilling power onto a loading block of cases with powder already carefully measured in them.
 
Mine was getting back into reloading and being used to single stage press, and going to a manual turret press setting up resize/decap die in wrong position with no hole under die to decap bent a few pins and a couple of spindle rods before I noticed.
 
Was cleaning the reloading bench the other night and gave the press a touch up with the vacuum and sucked up one of the brass case guides from my Dillon 650. Did I mention it was a central vac? Oh well, needed to be emptied anyhow.
 
MDF said:
Ummmm.... you wet tumbled loaded rounds?

Is that normal? I've never heard of that before.
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Apparently, dumb stuff I do includes commenting on things before researching them.

I had no idea that guys tumble loaded rounds to get the lube off. And here I was lovingly caressing each finished round with a clean cotton ragged damp with methyl hydrate to delube my rounds.

Humph.
 
Sometimes, when a loaded round has over .005" runout, I'll take the decap pin and expander out of my Redding FL die and will FL resize the loaded round. The die is already adjusted for a .002" shoulder bump. They always come out under .002" TIR. I know, I know...
 
I am always careful when reloading rounds: Read everything twice, no distractions, all that thing. I also always don't eat or drink near where I'm reloading.

Except for once last year when I was making up a batch of .303 British. I was pouring powder for about 20 rounds while eating one of Stouffer's tasty Crustini Chicken Broccoli and Cheese. I thought that something fell from it while I was pouring powder but I couldn't find anything on the table. Didn't occur to me to check the small container of powder that I had on the table.

One week later I'm testing those very rounds at the range when I hear a small pop. After giving it the standard 1 minute for hang fire I eject the case out of my Lee Enfield. Primer had gone off but when I check the inside of the case there's an odd mess of greenish powder and some goop. Turns out I found the small piece of food that had fallen into the powder. It also turned out that the bullet travelled about four inches into the barrel and wasn't going to come back out. I managed to get it out later with a wooden dowel, a hammer and some pounding.

I've never eaten or drank near the reloading table again.
 
MDF said:
Apparently, dumb stuff I do includes commenting on things before researching them.

I had no idea that guys tumble loaded rounds to get the lube off. And here I was lovingly caressing each finished round with a clean cotton ragged damp with methyl hydrate to delube my rounds.

Humph.
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The spray-on lube I use is water soluble. So easy to clean off.
 
new210/22 said:
Was cleaning the reloading bench the other night and gave the press a touch up with the vacuum and sucked up one of the brass case guides from my Dillon 650. Did I mention it was a central vac? Oh well, needed to be emptied anyhow.
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As long as it showed up in the canister you're ok - sometimes big objects get stuck in the vacuum line and then cause problems later.
 
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