in reloading whats is the worst thats happened to you ????
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I have only done about 20 rounds of 30-30 and a lee loader die set up....I'm still waiting to try and get my turret press set up.
Issue 1: popped a few primers while seating them into the brass...I was living in a basement suite and had my landlord living above me. Had this happen to me a few time and can't remember what was wrong but I loaded the rest with safety glasses and ear muffs on (must have been an interesting sight sitting at my kitchen table)
Issue 2: being nervous from popping the primers, I wasn't hitting the die hard enough to properly crimp the bullets in so when I went to cycle the rounds in the tube mag I found that the bullets were being pushed into the case
Issue 1: popped a few primers while seating them into the brass...I was living in a basement suite and had my landlord living above me. Had this happen to me a few time and can't remember what was wrong but I loaded the rest with safety glasses and ear muffs on (must have been an interesting sight sitting at my kitchen table)
Issue 2: being nervous from popping the primers, I wasn't hitting the die hard enough to properly crimp the bullets in so when I went to cycle the rounds in the tube mag I found that the bullets were being pushed into the case
Primer alignment going in, and having at least 2 thou. plus worth of neck tension ... these seem to be your concerns yota.
May I suggest 2 things?.
Slow down your primer seating. Some brass will receive them better than others. Some primers slide into pockets easier than others. For me, CCI works in most every brass.
but they have to be lined up before the hammer hits.
Do lee loader dies crimp?, didn't think so ... I can't recall, it's been a while ... do you have a dial caliper?, you do need one. If there is more than 2 thou. of neck tension present, they won't slip down the neck on you. Around 3 thou. should be ideal. If memory serves, lee loader dies do not squeeze down the necks all that much.
May I suggest 2 things?.
Slow down your primer seating. Some brass will receive them better than others. Some primers slide into pockets easier than others. For me, CCI works in most every brass.
but they have to be lined up before the hammer hits.
Do lee loader dies crimp?, didn't think so ... I can't recall, it's been a while ... do you have a dial caliper?, you do need one. If there is more than 2 thou. of neck tension present, they won't slip down the neck on you. Around 3 thou. should be ideal. If memory serves, lee loader dies do not squeeze down the necks all that much.
So far, the worst I've experienced is paying almost $700 for my loading setup a year and a half ago, then waiting for components to come available until last summer, and finally finding the time this past weekend to complete some load development for my first solo loads. (I've loaded with my brother in the past). A quick tally of all I've spent on reloading puts my first rounds at about $40 each for .308 win. Good thing they worked out OK, and the cost will get better per round as I go, of course.
Forgot to add powder to a couple cases here and there. Fortunately caught myself and a quick trip inside the bullet hammer fixed my woes. Double charged a .308 case, fortunately I was using enough powder that it spilled out the top.... Screwed up my settings on a balance beam scale once and had to re weigh the charges for a heap of .40 S&W....
I've wrecked cases by not paying attention when resizing, broken and bent decap pins and rods.
I've crunched cases when hitting the crimp ring in seating dies.
I've forgot to check if a partial resized case would chamber, had rounds in a batch that were set up tight, that some would not chamber later.
Had bullets that had to be sized more after springback, and would not chamber without semi breech seating.
had a few no powder pouts, and some that actually were primer issues
had a couple of partial charges from powder bridging, and a few that broke loose and overfilled the next one.
Collapsed cases from low charges, pierced primers from hot ones.
had a batch of primers that hang fired at a match shoot, they were loaded right there, at the bench
broken bullet sizer linkage
wrong sized expander in a new die
brass splitting in an egged chamber
a batch of recalled powder, locking up a gun on a starting load charge.
broke the shellholder section off Lee primer tools three times, had two handles break
seated primers sideways, and upside down
slightly overheated bullets in the oven.
moulds that would not make size, and were oversize
I've crunched cases when hitting the crimp ring in seating dies.
I've forgot to check if a partial resized case would chamber, had rounds in a batch that were set up tight, that some would not chamber later.
Had bullets that had to be sized more after springback, and would not chamber without semi breech seating.
had a few no powder pouts, and some that actually were primer issues
had a couple of partial charges from powder bridging, and a few that broke loose and overfilled the next one.
Collapsed cases from low charges, pierced primers from hot ones.
had a batch of primers that hang fired at a match shoot, they were loaded right there, at the bench
broken bullet sizer linkage
wrong sized expander in a new die
brass splitting in an egged chamber
a batch of recalled powder, locking up a gun on a starting load charge.
broke the shellholder section off Lee primer tools three times, had two handles break
seated primers sideways, and upside down
slightly overheated bullets in the oven.
moulds that would not make size, and were oversize
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