chrt396,
Anybody that posts blowing up a gun is going to catch some crap, no way around it. I’ve loaded a couple of cartridges with no powder, so it’s safe to say I could have loaded one with a double charge just as easily. When I first started loading I was still trying to figure out my rhythm and learning the nuts and bolts of loading at the same time. Once I figured out the procedure that worked for me, I stuck with it and IMO, that repetitive procedure has made me safer. I like putting things on paper; it keeps me honest with myself. It may be a worthwhile effort to put your loading procedure on paper, try it out and revise as needed. bds posted a thread not long ago with some pretty good info in it; there’s probable similar threads floating around if you look.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=603357
There’s a lot of guys here with a ton more reloading experience than me, so I’m not going to suggest I know what happened in your case, but I’m pretty sure that at least 99% of the people that damage a gun with a double charge are 100% sure they did not double charge; otherwise they wouldn’t have shot it.
RC brought up that you had light loads and that you don’t know where the balance of those charges went. Did the Unique bridge in your measure? Did you dump a double in one case and maybe nothing in another? If it were me, I think I would start weighing every drop of Unique until I was sure there were no issues with it.
You’re catching some crap for continuing to shot, but your explanation of why you felt it was safe to do so makes since to me (not that it matters what I or anybody else thinks). I’ve seen a few people blow up guns and the typical response is they stand there shocked for a minute and when they do start to talk it’s like the blast deleted about 20 IQ points from their brain. ‘Man, I don’t know what just happened man.’ They shove most of their gear into their bag and do the walk of shame off the line. But You Sir, you stopped the bleeding and went back to shooting! You need to be on one of those Budlight commercials!