It must be the law of averages because I'm perfect, and I had something similar happen to me a few years back - after 30 some odd years of handloading.is it laws of averages? Or human error, no ones perfect?
Dang good primer.
Yea, it was just a poof from the primer, I was surprised myself.That's a lot of travel for no .powder. in 9mm they only go about an inch. My dad loaded a bunch of 9mm on cancer meds and that ammo went away...
Just rechecked, no crimp, so that could of been the saving grace, sort of speak.It must be the law of averages because I'm perfect, and I had something similar happen to me a few years back - after 30 some odd years of handloading.
Seriously, I'm glad you caught it. It could have been a disaster.
Mine was just a little different in the fact that I might have forgotten to put any powder in the case at all. Luckily I had a firm enough crimp that the primer alone didn't generate enough pressure to even push the bullet out of the case. As I said, that was LUCKY - I thought I'd had a misfire, so I foolishly just kept on shooting until my revolver ran empty. It wasn't until I got home and pullet the bullet that I saw its base had been burned black by the primer.
Weird thing is, I've always used an old desk lamp to peer into each case in the loading block after I've charged the cases with powder - I'm looking for powder charges that don't look the same as all of the others in that loading block.
I must have missed that one. I'm more careful now.
Don't know if the primer has anything to do with it but it was a WSP.Dang good primer.
I check the lands (grooves for the barrel) on the bullet when I got it out, bore dia. is .352, own that gun for over 30 years and never knew it was that tight, Btw the bullet is a .38 hornady xtp which measured at .3565One hell of a primer.
Or a diameter mismatch of bullet to bore.
Close enough for some pressure to remain, but not enough to obturate the bullet to bore and make a quality seal.
I have never had a squib in 46 years of loading.
Including 100's thousands of rounds of .45 ACP and .38 Super for three gun Bullseye competition.
Worst thing I have ever had happen was case splits in creating AI rounds for varmint rifles.
(.22-250AI and 6mm REM AI).
And even those never happened again after I started sorting brass by neck wall run out thickness.
If the neck wall variation was large, I checked for body variation a few times.
Satisfied the shells had high variation all the way to the head I started simply discarding them.
Not likely to perform all that well if they did not split when being expanded.
Yea, it was just a poof from the primer, I was surprised myself.
I may, no other explanation, lands and grooves seem deep and sharp, unburned powder didn't go out the front of the barrel since bullet was blocking that. Opened the cylinder, ejected the cases and no powder and then tilted the gun up and no powder came out the back side of the barrel, through forcing cone. I'm just as puzzled as you especially when I check my powder 3 different times right up until the bullet gets seated. All I got was a poof of smoke from the rear of the cylinder, assuming that was the primer going off.Try it again with a primer only load and I bet the bullet gets stuck in the forcing cone or first inch of the barrel. There's no way the bullet traveled that far with just a primer unless the rifling is completely worn away.