Dillon SD Pregnant!

[Catpop]

I pulled the tool head off my Dillon SD for another reason today. Besides many years of bullet lube, I found a bootlit stuck in the top of the final stage crimping die!
I guess my Dillon was just pregnant and just had not dropped yet.
Anyway it had not seemed to affect reloading quality in the slightest.
Anyway another bullet to reload is always good!

 

[IMtheNRA]

About a year ago, I bought a used RL 1050 with quite a few dies on spare toolheads. When I disassembled the 9mm seating die to clean and inspect it, I found TWO bullets stuck in the die! TWO!

 

[joem1945]

I load a lot of cast lead. Every so oftem I have to clean out my seat/ crimp die cause of lube and lead buildup.

 

[tcook90]

I was decapping a bunch of 45 acp cases, and when I was finished I found a 9mm case stuck inside the decapping die (Lee Universal). It must've been nested inside a 45 case, an the pin just punched through the 9 primer and pushed it right up out of the way.

 

[lauderdale]

I have had that happen before also on mine.

 

[Dudedog]

Catpop,
remember you need to wear proper protection when reloading

 

[Catpop]

Dudedog, you're too much!

 

[Jim Watson]

There was a demolished gun in SASS. The owner was just sure he could not have double charged the powder. A couple of guys watched him loading and agreed. But after a while a bullet stuck in the seating die and he double shotted one. Would have been another kaBoom.

 

[Havok7416]

I'm certainly no stranger to making mistakes myself, but how do you "lose" a bullet inside a die though? Particularly in the case of the OP, at the crimping stage of all places? Certainly interesting if nothing else.

I've had a few bullets randomly get stuck in my seating die which forced me to disassemble the die to get them out (There was a small piece of lead inside the die apparently).

 

[Handgunr]

Love my Dillon's, but yeah.....sometimes they can hold & hide stuff lol

 

[Catpop]

In a Dillon, there is room for a bullet (maybe even two) ahead of the roll crimp.
Now how it got there------- even I ain't sure how or even when, but from the boolit found, it had to be within the last 2 years.

 

[Handgunr]

Although a tad pricey I guess........I do love the Dillon dies as well. A lot of thought went into their design....ease of use wise......