Mistakes

kalielkslayer · Mar 20, 2022

I made one last night.

I started resizing some .223 on my Dillion 550C.

I removed the 9mm tool head and slid the .223 one in. I forgot to change out the base plate! Don’t know why? I had it in my head that the RCBS shell holder #3 is the same one for 9mm and .223.

Anyways, 1st case when I went to raise the ram, it shaved the the rim of the case and it was stuck in the die!

I’m sure most of us have done something similar just not thinking, rushing, just being stupid?

PS: Getting that case out wasn’t too bad. I moved the die to my Rockchucker where I had more room to work. Unscrewed the decapping pin/throat sizer used a tool a tool between the decapping pin adjustment and the top of the die to slowly force the
pin up through the throat. Once the pin was out, 1 tap with a punch through the die to the base of the case knocked the case out. I felt stupid.

lightman · Mar 20, 2022

Mistakes: Everyone makes them! At least yours was simple and easily corrected!

alfsauve · Mar 20, 2022

Mistakes come from not being wise. Wisdom comes from making mistakes. Been there. Done that. At least it only cost you one case. I've done much worse.

Palladan44 · Mar 20, 2022

I had a 45 colt shellplate in when loading 44 Magnum in my 550B. Same thing.

WestKentucky · Mar 20, 2022

Mistake? What’s that?

Highland Lofts · Mar 20, 2022

A few days ago I loaded three hundred 223 then switched over to 38spl.
The next day I went to resize some more 223 and forgot to switch the shell holders from 38spl to 9mm.

Stuck case, so I got out the 7/32 drill bit,
1/4 - 20 tap, 9/16 socket, 1/4 - 20 bolt and went to work.

My brother has some good reloading equipment but is clueless about reloading.
He loaded up two boxes of twenty 243 and totally screwed them up beyond repair.

GeoDudeFlorida · Mar 20, 2022

.35Rem Speer 180’s. .357Maximum cases. “Thought” I had already run 100 of them through the.357” sizing die. Thought wrong. Oops.
At least I caught it on the first one in the seating die. Too bad it cost me a case. Split the neck.

bigpower491 · Mar 20, 2022

Gee I had to take the press apart the other day because of a mistake....

In the words of Roger Daltry......We won't get fooled again...(hopefully)

Walkalong · Mar 20, 2022

That’s an easy one to make, I know I’ve done it. :thumbup:

74man · Mar 21, 2022

I have done the same thing with .223 and 30-30 but limited it to only a few cases. Live and learn, reloading is a learning process. Good Luck and keep your head in the game. BE AWARE!!!

kalielkslayer · Mar 21, 2022

I shared this thread because I know I’m not the only one!

But I believe these types of mistakes make us wiser, and less prone for further mistakes.

I have a 4 lb jug of “tight group” I won’t use in 9mm because I don’t want a catastrophic failure!!!

I’ll stick to HS6, Siloutte, something that fills the case.

tightgroup tiger · Mar 21, 2022

I've made a few Muffin Top Magnums as one of our other members called them years ago. The name just stuck with me.

Buzznrose · Mar 21, 2022

Mistakes…I’ve made thousands of them in my life. They always have a price.

The thing to remember is to make sure the lessons learned outweigh the cost of the mistake itself.

And I’m not just talking about reloading….

Remington1911 · Mar 21, 2022

All the mistakes talked about are easy to live with and keep all your fingers.

I generally do one operation at a time. Pop all the primers out. Put new primers in, charge all the cases, seat all the bullets.

I have them all on the little trays, and sometimes my muddled brain will grab the same case and try to prime it twice....no biggie, easy to catch. Now double charging that could end in a real bad way.

Long story short I did catch it, but now I use two trays. One tray is done and the other is a to be done.

I really think if I was not so anal about reloading I would have had a kaboom and not a bang.

Walkalong · Mar 21, 2022

tightgroup tiger said:
I've made a few Muffin Top Magnums as one of our other members called them years ago. The name just stuck with me.
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Must be heck cutting a chamber for those

Slamfire · Mar 21, 2022

Could have been worse

Mistakes, we all make them, and as long as the mistake is recoverable, no harm.

GeoDudeFlorida · Mar 21, 2022

tightgroup tiger said:
I've made a few Muffin Top Magnums as one of our other members called them years ago. The name just stuck with me.
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It's just a little overweight
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...double chin. :rofl:

Handshaker · Mar 21, 2022

All of us have made mistakes, they key is to catch it before you shoot them. I would rather pull a bullet from a case then pull one from my arm... I prefer a turret press because I inspect each case as i am reloading for powder content to make sure i dont have a light or overloaded round. So far i have caught the mistakes before shooting them. For instance, If i load 45-70 with H4198 the beginning load is 30gr's and if i use H335 its 57gr's. I can get twice the loads from a lb of powder with H4198 vs H335. Each caliber is different.

Highland Lofts · Mar 21, 2022

I remember once I used a 38spl flare die on a 357 magnum case.

warnerwh · Mar 28, 2022

That's why there are bullet pullers. Even after many years you can still make a mistake, or at least I have.

LiveLife · Mar 28, 2022

alfsauve said:
Mistakes come from not being wise. Wisdom comes from making mistakes. Been there. Done that. At least it only cost you one case. I've done much worse.

30 years ago, I somehow mixed up the load data and my first shot at the range went "BOOM" instead of "bang".

I immediately knew what happened and after lowering my hands/gun from above my head, I packed up and left. (Yeah, I did check my underwear/shorts ... thankfully dry).

Since then, I have not mixed up another powder/load data. (Only one powder container on the bench and triple check load data to make sure you are using the correct start/max charges)

kalielkslayer · Mar 28, 2022

warnerwh said:
That's why there are bullet pullers. Even after many years you can still make a mistake, or at least I have.

I have an unused bullet puller.

If the mistake only involves a couple of cases, I trash them.

I do have about 50 .243 Win where apparently the die wasn’t tight and as I was working up a ladder, each cartridge is shorter than the one before it.

Since they are Barnes bullets at $1 a pop, and I know the powder since the case I placed them in is marked, and it was brand new brass, I’ll probably pull those at some point.

GeoDudeFlorida · Mar 28, 2022

kalielkslayer said:
I have an unused bullet puller.

If the mistake only involves a couple of cases, I trash them.

I do have about 50 .243 Win where apparently the die wasn’t tight and as I was working up a ladder, each cartridge is shorter than the one before it.

Since they are Barnes bullets at $1 a pop, and I know the powder since the case I placed them in is marked, and it was brand new brass, I’ll probably pull those at some point.

A little friendly advice, do it now, before you forget, or they get moved or buried. Putting off correcting mistakes is also a mistake.

Ironicaintit · Mar 28, 2022

GeoDudeFlorida said:
A little friendly advice, do it now, before you forget, or they get moved or buried. Putting off correcting mistakes is also a mistake.

Totally agree. Mistakes are made, and memories are fallible.... an RCBS collet puller has a permanent place on my turret.
If an oops happens, it gets yanked and assessed right then and there

AJC1 · Mar 28, 2022

kalielkslayer said:
I have an unused bullet puller.

If the mistake only involves a couple of cases, I trash them.

I do have about 50 .243 Win where apparently the die wasn’t tight and as I was working up a ladder, each cartridge is shorter than the one before it.

Since they are Barnes bullets at $1 a pop, and I know the powder since the case I placed them in is marked, and it was brand new brass, I’ll probably pull those at some point.

Just use the hammer and adjust seating depth. No reason to start over. Couple of wacks till their long and reseat.

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