hal8337
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Location: Livonia, Louisiana
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Post by hal8337 on Oct 11, 2014 7:50:25 GMT -5
My son & I went to the range yesterday and I was lucky enough to experience something new. There was a gentlemen next to me shooting a automatic pistol. After about 30 minutes I noticed him walking over carrying something. He was carrying his barrel and inside was a stuck bullet. We got to talking and he told me he reloaded as well. The stuck bullet was fortunately just inside the barrel and it jammed the gun when the next round cycled not allowing it fire. It was just my opinion that he really didn't look too upset as this was not his first time experiencing this. He made a comment about turning off the TV next time while reloading. When I returned home I looked on the net and it showed plenty reasons to be concerned as some photo's showed destroyed guns and some showed injured shooters. I had heard about this but never witnessed it until now. I have a son-in-law that shows interest in reloading and is usually in a hurry while we work the bench. I will definitely show him what being in a hurry will get you.
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Post by hacker54 on Oct 11, 2014 12:52:16 GMT -5
Hal,
When one reloads one needs to commit TOTAL FOCUS to the task at hand. The person reloading is the soul QC manger of what is being done. If I'm reloading on the single stage or on the progressive and nature calls when I get back it does not matter where I'm at at that point in the process I start over. This way I lessen the chance of a double charge or too light of a charge of powder. also any time I think I have a problem I start over. I do not want any mishaps at the range or out hunting.
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dangun
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I love the smell of burnt gun powder.
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Location: SW Florida
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Post by dangun on Oct 11, 2014 22:58:08 GMT -5
Hal,
Gary is correct as I'm sure you realize. Reloading should not be done until you can give it your undivided attention. I have witnessed too occasions were someone has brought reloaded ammo to the range that has safety issues. When discussing those issue I have more often than not found out that the reloader was either watching TV or was otherwise preoccupied and not giving the task at hand his full attention. Reloading at my bench doesn't even start until every thought I have is about the task at hand.
I'm glad the person wasn't hurt is this situation but I'm more glad that you got to witness and learn from a mistake made by someone else and that you recognized it for what it was.
Be Safe and Have fun.
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7mmmountaineer
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Time to face it I am a workaholic............
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Post by 7mmmountaineer on Oct 13, 2014 6:36:41 GMT -5
Hal if you ere at our old home you will have heard this one before. I use to have a neighbor named Stan who loaded and used my little range. One night Stan and his son were sitting around enjoying a few adult beverages. Stan's son had traded me out of a 7WSM and they were still looking for a load for it. Well after those adult beverages Stan decided to load some rounds using the data they had for .284 160gr bullets but in his state he loaded .308 165gr bullets with bad results.
When I load unless someone is helping me I shut the world out close the loading room door shut down the radio and block out everything. All the manual tell you never load unless you can give it you 100% complete and total attention. Rarely will I load prior to having any other type of activity scheduled unless I can start long enough before hand to not be rushed. I have said this before this is a hobby that doesn't allow for fools. Oh my old neighbor Stan has had 5 surgeries to get his hand corrected and he also sold off all his loading gear. |
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poohzilla
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Give me a place to stand and a long-enough lever, and I will invariably break the lever.
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Post by poohzilla on Oct 13, 2014 11:25:53 GMT -5
Chuck, when I'm at a critical stage in load development, I go so far as to wait for my family to leave the house, locking the doors and taking the phone off the hook ! I came up with a new (to me) kink yesterday. I was processing a bunch of rifle cases, and I took them out of one box, trimmmed them, and then put them in the next box. I had to leave the job for an hour or so. While I had my usual notes about, I also took the caution of putting another note in front of the trimmer with the time and date, the notation, "You are trimming, dummy", and an arrow indicating the flow of brass. As it turned out, I was back in an hour, and it probably wouldn't have mattered, but what if it had turned into a week ? We're all going to goof, but the best we can do is put up as many roadblocks between us and a goof as we can !
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bob
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I'm too old to be nice but never too old to learn!
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Location: Northern California
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Post by bob on Oct 13, 2014 12:10:01 GMT -5
I do something similar to pooh, since I have a relatively advancecd case of oldtimers desease, I leave notes with the brass telling me where I was. I'm glad I did because a short break turned into a few days. When getting to the more critical part of loading shut the door and don't leave 'til I'm done. Soon I will be at that critical stage with 250 .30'06 cartridges since I'm loading on a single stage press I'm going to have to break it up into manageable batches even though my neighbor will be doing some of the loading.
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My daughter came from Missouri, my son and grand son, my wife and I had a nice dinner of grilled "porter house" pork chops, corn on the cobb, my son, G'son and I share 10/5. G'son is 4 minutes early though @ 10/4.
Pooh I hope you find to right house . 
