jebus man, you have a 550, and chose to use the lee???
I run a 550, and would not use a lee if i had one.
My poor glock and my bloody hand!
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jebus man, you have a 550, and chose to use the lee???
I run a 550, and would not use a lee if i had one.
yea, i can't stand that MANUAL indexer- if the loadmaster was available when i bought the 550, i would have gone with the loaadmaster- disregarding the priming problems, it's a superiorand more simple system- it's a bar that pushes on a button on the bottom of the shelplate; moreover , i can change calibers including the shelplate in about 1/10th the time WITHOUT tools- lose that allen key with the 550 and you're screwed
- Location
- Burnaby, BC
Wow, glad ur okay. Definitely could have been worse.
I reload 9mm, .357 mag, and .45 acp. I am using Lee turret press and I visually check each charge. I have learned that slower powders fill the case more making it easy to see and some times impossible to double charge - powder spills. Also coarse powder is easy to see to, like Unique.
My big fear is barrel obstruction. My wife likes to shoot. I fear that she may not realize a squib round and keep going.
I reload 9mm, .357 mag, and .45 acp. I am using Lee turret press and I visually check each charge. I have learned that slower powders fill the case more making it easy to see and some times impossible to double charge - powder spills. Also coarse powder is easy to see to, like Unique.
My big fear is barrel obstruction. My wife likes to shoot. I fear that she may not realize a squib round and keep going.
easyrider604
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Greater Vancouver, BC
I tried this in the past when I doubted the reliability of my powder measure. With all the different brands of brass with widely varying weights, and the variations in the weight of my homecast heads from a 6 cavity mold (for example 45acp bullets weighed from 235 to 240 grains), there was no way to accurately determine whether powder was present or not.
No broken fingers just a blast line from the slide area. Sort of looks like a worm under the skin. Sorry not too much battle damage for the gore seekers. Bet if I was wearing gloves I wouldn't have been injured at all.
WoW, that is a testament to the Gun manufacturer.
It held together enough to save you from an amputation imo.
Happy to see you still have a sense of humor as well.
How old was the gun?
did you buy it with a CC that has a consumer warranty protection carried with the card?
Good Luck, Best Wishes in your recovery and in the selection of your next pistol.
Can I copy and save the two pictures for my photo album or injuries and gun malfunctions?
Thank,
Rob
OK, let's say you're chugging away at the 550 and the phone rings. When your done with the phone and you turn back to the press what do you see? Is there a bullet seated at the seating station? If there is then there is powder in the case at the belling/powder fill station. If not, then there will at least be powder in the case at the seating station. Place a bullet on that case , take a quick look at the case in the belling/filling station to make sure it's empty (it should be), check the case in the resize/priming station to make sure you completed the upstroke and seated the primer before going to the phone, and carry on. I've been using a progressive for 20 years and I can't see how things can go that horribly wrong. It certainly doesn't take more attention than a single stage, I think it actually takes less.
That is my experience as well. I had an issue with squib rounds loaded at 3 am during a course one time and there was no way to tell from the weights of the completed cartridges whether they had powder or not. I had empty ones that weighed more than full ones.
They were a pain in the ass and I eventually had to empty them all and redo them...very annoying.
My wife found the last one...squibbed my G20 and kept on firing.
The barrel had to be replaced as it developed a ring in it and caused the slide to lock back all the time. But the gun still worked.
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Indeed!
I'm not a Glock fan by any stretch, but this thread has put them a big step up in my estimation. If you double charged my pet 1911 with fast burning powder, I'm quite sure the consequences would have been more severe. If I had come out of that so easily, I'd want another Glock too.
