Comments on: Top 10 Reloading Fails — Do You Agree?

By: Philski

Philski — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 11:17:57 +0000

For me its putting the occasional primer in upside down or seating the projectile a bit short are the biggest pains. Stuck cases are right up there too.

oh&s stuff.
Priming without safety glasses on. All the time for me. i do have a pair on the bench, but dont.

and i cant remember why? but had to hit a loaded round with a hammer while half drunk. is that bad? It worked out well, im obviously still here.

By: Jerry Shaw

Jerry Shaw — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:03:41 +0000

There’s a big difference between most common and most dangerous.
While there are lots of common mistakes, we probably ought to focus on the mistakes that are most likely to get people hurt.
And there will be a lot more than ten of them.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 12:14:44 +0000

Failing to ensure the powder measure is completely empty when finishing a loading session, or on changing powders. We’ve seen a few accidents in the UK in recent years where components, load recipes and handloading practice have all been found to be good, but the common factor was that the handloader’s previous bench session had involved a faster burning powder used in the measure. If the tool isn’t entirely cleared, more than enough of the ‘old’ lot to cause major problems can be dumped into the first case charged in the ‘new’ lot.

By: Rewinder

Rewinder — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 07:25:54 +0000

No or not enough caselube when resizing

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 03:52:21 +0000

Tumbling brass with live primers? Really? Well that is complete B.S. Do it all the time, have for many, many years.

By: tenring

tenring — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:17:35 +0000

Cracked cases. I keep my brass in groups of 20, all with same round count. When one cracks, they all get pitched. Others will surely follow. Sure way to mess up a nice group if you hang on to em.

By: Leadlauncher

Leadlauncher — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:15:00 +0000

Bob, I totally agree with you on what should be number #1 thing to be wary of in reloading any cartridge. That the correct burning rate and quantity of propellant is used. I am lucky to be alive today. I took delivery of a brand new gunsmithed 6.5 BR based on a Tikka action. The first 5 rounds were ok. The sixth round blew the complete side of the receiver. How it missed my face while sitting at the Range bench I will never know. And I could not find the pieces. I made a mistake having 2 x powder cans on my bench. I will NEVER make any mistake again!!

By: Vic

Vic — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 04:01:30 +0000

1: Choosing powder and bullet arbitrarily without concern of published charge and pressure info.
2: trying to load the hottest loads for maximum velocity with heaviest bullets (leaving the least room for error in this case)
3: Depending on the art of tea leaf reading AKA analyzing spent precussion caps to guesstimate pressure and velocity
4: Assuming high pressure = high velovity
5: assuming more bullet weight = more powder needed
6: never buuying or using a chronometer to validate load data and expected speeds (implying predictable pressure range)

By: Darcy

Darcy — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 12:37:42 +0000

I agree I see ppl who are chatting , doing all kinds of “multi tasking” while they pick out a random “Recipe” for their rifle , they ignore proper load work up and do not load anything but junk loads , why not just go by a bunch of the lowest cost “”Acme”” ammo you can findnif you dont do propper load development and stay on task, here in Alberta Canada they recently passed a distracted driver law to stop ppl from txt while driving to support thellegislation they didna huge study on multi tasking andfound that 99.9% of ppl can not do more then one intricate task at a time for 35 years iv loaded my owne and other precision hunting ammo useing for the last bunch of years Barnes bullets iv never ever loaded while distrated and with propper load developing all our rifles aremsub m.o.a with the best hunting bullets ever built and I oene rifles from 22-250 to 1886 45-70 the 1886 does shoot 2.5 inch but thats with my hard cast 405 gr bullets allmour other rifles shoot premium hunting bullets and as a retired guide I know the importance of good ammo one other thing on the list should be only hunt with F.L RESIZED BRASS I personaly only hunt with once fired full leigth resized brass it then goes into our general shootingnor s.h.t.f ammo after hunting season

By: Lance

Lance — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:03:13 +0000

Assuming bullets can be substituted in listed load data based on projectile weight alone.

Assuming powder can be substituted based on similar burn rate alone is another.

Not annealing case necks is an expensive mistake.

Increasing pressures to dangerous levels by seating projectiles too deep in a case for an already hot load.

The list goes on and on…