whats the most bullets you've had to pull due to one reloading error?

Never pulled any great quantities of loaded ammo. Most at any one time probably was about 20 or so. Collets are you friend when you need to pull a few, though. I hate the inertia pullers!! Eagleye.
 
Not really a loading error, but my partsman and I pulled a nasty pile of bullets from the 7.62 Nato stuff some years back that was supposed to be faulty. We had two collet pullers set up in the office.:p
 
Timely thread. Over the years, perhaps 100 or so.

Just discovered I loaded 50 unlubed .45 acp bullets. Forgot to re-tumble lube after re-sizing. May have to pull, but I think I'll shoot a couple of magazines and see if leading occurs, before pulling.
 
Usually just a few now and again at the top end of a load work-up that a rifle didn't like pressure-wise.

I've pulled a few handgun rounds I've found at the range, can't say I recall pulling any of my own.
 
mikeystew said:
Sooo... about those cast lead bullets? think if i paid shipping you might box 'em up and send them my way next time you pull them apart? :D
No... seriously
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There are a couple of casters at the club who take care of that already.....

I was refering to crappy brass going to the 'recycler', you know the stuff with small flash hole (the ones that grab and pull out your decapping pin) and with the really aggressive military crimps...... The commercial brass runs right through with out a hic-up.

Cheers!
 
344 of .38 Specials.

When setting the powder measure on my Dillon, the 10 grain counter weight on my OHAUS scale didn't quite seat in the zero notch and I wound up with 3 more grains of HS-6 than I bargained for. My saving grace was that the ammo was fired through a Smith model 28 .357. Those empties were smashed with a rock and reside in my scrap brass pail.

Henceforth, the 10 grain counter weight gets extra special atention.
 
About 100 .243s. i was so excited I found a load that worked well. I neck sized them all and realized the chamber was crooked when I tried to load the first one.
 
At most 3 or 4 - but I can't remember the last time I pulled more than one in a row... The most common mistake I have made is priming brass in advance, then not remembering which primers I used, or forgetting how many times the brass in bag A has been fired, vs. bag B... I find that being a minimalist and keeping the bare minimum of component selection goes a long way in eliminating mistakes.
 
I have a bucket of around 350 assorted rounds, 9mm, .45 ACP, and 30-06 that all need to be pulled.

It is astounding how fast one can make errors on a Dillon 1050. I only have a few from .45 and 30-06, mainly just from setting up the dies. The vast majority was from 9mm. I forgot to attach the failsafe powder charge bar, which disconnects the powder dispenser. Made over 200 rounds before I noticed that the powder was not dropping.

That said, I have loaded alot more rounds on my press since then, and it has turned out pretty good so far. I just finished loading 3000 .45ACP rounds over the last 3 days. I only spent about 2 pretty chilled hours a night in the reloading room while listening to music. God I love the 1050 when it is working well.
 
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