- Location
- Saskatchewan
I've been lucky, even after loading many thousands of cartridges. The closest I've come is primers seated badly and crushed while twisted sideways. That's happened dozens of times due to poor technique on my part or sloppy tolerances in some tools. But none have gone off.
I ALWAYS wear safety glasses or regular glasses when seating primers. And I got rid of my Hornady primer tubes that came with the press. They stack primers on top of each other, all lined up. What a recipe for disaster if you dropped a full tube on a concrete floor.
I prefer the filler tubes in my Forster primer seating tool. Much safer, it stacks primers facing outwards, side by side, not nested on top of each other facing upwards like the Hornady design.
I ALWAYS wear safety glasses or regular glasses when seating primers. And I got rid of my Hornady primer tubes that came with the press. They stack primers on top of each other, all lined up. What a recipe for disaster if you dropped a full tube on a concrete floor.
I prefer the filler tubes in my Forster primer seating tool. Much safer, it stacks primers facing outwards, side by side, not nested on top of each other facing upwards like the Hornady design.