Comments on: Blood and Gore — Injury After Pistol Powder Loaded in Rifle Case

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 21 May 2019 15:27:05 +0000

Rule #1…ONE powder on the loading bench at a time.

By: Jim Lehmann

Jim Lehmann — Mon, 20 May 2019 16:45:35 +0000

I was shooting trap after dark on a lighted range when another guy next to me fired his Over and Under. The recoil looked like he had fired a 300 Win Mag. Fire blew out around the breach.
I asked him what he was shooting ; he had used pistol powder to reload.
I packed up and left. I hope he didn’t blow his face off.

By: Matthew C Doherty

Matthew C Doherty — Mon, 20 May 2019 00:27:43 +0000

I dont reload pistol ammo. Its too cheap to bother. and therefore I only own rifle powder that is all similar in burn rate and “probably” wont kill me when (not if) I do something stupid.

By: Joe Roby

Joe Roby — Sun, 19 May 2019 23:49:39 +0000

Had a good friend been loading for 50years. Beam scale bumped up 10grs. Remington 700 6mmAI came a part, he was lucky, stuff in his eye, stock blew, floor plate GEE WHIZ.

When I loaded rifle bullets, someone comes in the garage I STOP til they leave. ONE powder on the loading bench at a time.

By: Jack Neale

Jack Neale — Sun, 19 May 2019 22:11:00 +0000

I only use a powder measure for pistol reloading. For rifle I hand dip each charge, so i open the can each reloading session. It is too easy to make a mistake when you are using a powder measure for everything.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 19 May 2019 13:05:17 +0000

I keep all my powder separate from my reloading area, and keep pistol and rifle powder separate. As others have stated, I also keep whatever powder I am using right next to the scale so I have a visual reminder every time I throw a charge. There is an adage…”it is not if, but when”. I do everything I can think of to minimize or eliminate the when.

By: Mr Brian Miller

Mr Brian Miller — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 22:37:39 +0000

Last night i noticed I had dropped CFE pistol in my RCBS powder drop. Where I was supposed to put CFE223
I went on the internet to see if I could get away with this ..and low and behold this post came up

I have a thousand rounds to pull apart and powder to throw out. Thank god I noticed …

By: Judd

Judd — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:14:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing. It was unselfish of you to share your experience. It goes to show that even for veteran reloaders, reloading is a serious matter with bad consequences if one makes a mistake. Speedy recovery buddy.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:06:35 +0000

Also pray for a speedy recovery.

This fear is why I have made it point to keep all powder out of sight. When I reload I have to get the powder from behind me and I leave the can on the bench as reloading. So I am always seeing it and is an ‘oddity’.

Also when labeling the reloads I make it a point to grab the can to write the powder used, not my memory.

Accidents will happen, that is why we call them ‘accidents’ (I still have a piece of shrapnel in my little finger from an accident). As stated by Denny, hopefully his article will make us all look at our processes and do what we can to minimize the chances of these accidents.

By: Zero333

Zero333 — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 04:20:59 +0000

Considering Titegroup flakes and Varget stick kernels don’t look anything alike, this fella must of shut off all his senses during that reloading session.

Live and learn. Sometimes the hard way.

I wish him no long term damage.

This story is from a while back.