Weird-Stuck case in seating die

Ok A first for me. I was seating some Lake City brass 223 in my Redding T-7 for my S-I-L.

All were trimmed to 1.750 and plonk tested before loading. Inserted the bullet and loaded shell into the die. On dropping the ram, the round remained in in the die. There was no pulling or yanking as it released from the shell holder and I reached up and with my fingers removed the round from the die. Almost no resistance as it came down and out in my fingers. I do not crimp. It plunked afterwards.

Reinserted the round to see if I could repeat the event. No, I could not. Put it into the shell holder and it stayed there even on my tugging on it. I checked the rim with my fingers and it seemed fine.

Re-seated it and worked fine. And the shell holder held the round. The only difference I noticed was that the bullet was seated into the shell too deep compared to the rest of the batch of 100. I pulled the bullet and made measurements to see what happened. Nothing seemed off.

I reused the bullet and primer and tossed the shell.

Anyone ever see this?

Kp321 said:

The bullet being seated too deep is the smoking gun. The shell was not in the shell holder initially. It was sitting on top of the shell holder, thus the bullet was seated deeper.

Click to expand...

I would have thought that seating a bullet without insertion into the shellholder was impossible. But I do support the 2 pieces with my fingers as they go into the die.

So you are right.

I am relieved that it was just my carelessnes/stupidity that was to blame and not my reloading tools.

You guys are the best!

AK Hunter said:

It’s real important to pay attention while you load. LOL

Click to expand...

You mean I should not have started that re loading session when I got home from the bachelor party?