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[Feral_Goz]

Had my first KaFizz on the weekend. Took down a zip lock bag of reloaded 9mm to the range for a bit of practise. All way going along fine until, I pull the trigger and hear a click. First think I think of is I've got a squib load. Then I see gas escaping around the extractor area. I wait for about a minute thinking about how I am going to get the lead projectile out. First thing I do is drop the mag and hold on real tight.

After a good minute had passed I try and rack the slide. It is a little stiff and I am trying to work out in my head what happened. I give the slide a good racking and out comes a whole bullet. I pick it up and find that the primer had been installed backwards!!!!!!!.:banghead: Normally I store the ammo in plastic MTM boxes, primer up. But last time I had been reloading I ran out of boxes and started to use zip lock bags.

Bullet ended up in the misfires bin and I did a field strip on the 9mm to make sure all is well.

Lesson for the day.....Check EVERY (sometimes twice) bullet as I prime them. I am off to the gun store on the weekend to stock up on ammo boxes.

Anyone else had a similar experience?

Feral_Goz

 

[Larryect]

No.

But I have not been reloading very long either. A friend gave me a couple of lessons. One of those lessons is to inspect EVERY round after reloading it. The inspection includes rolling the cartridge in your fingers checking for splits or other abnormalities, then standing it in a tray - primer side up - to check for high primers or other problems. You can then dump them in a bag or box.

After having a round a bit oversize jam up my Sig, I added a step of dropping each round into my chamber as a go/no go guage (they also make guages for this).

After a session of reloading 700 rounds in a progressive press, I was not looking forward to the inspections. But, I did it and found 7 cartridges with problems . You can inspect them while sitting in front of the TV. I decided I would rather find the problem at home than while on the range.

Best

Larry

 

[tc300mag1]

I always prime as a seprate step and check them later b4 i finish loading .

 

[JA]

Had the same thing happen 15 years ago when I got my first progressive press so I bought a 10 packs of these in the sizes for 9mm,357,and 45.

http://www.midwayusa.com/rewriteabrowse/2/8645/9315+***+651+***+683+***
I box up all reloads and inspect the primers. On other cartridges I save the factory boxes trays to put reloads back into for inspection before dumping into a plastic baggie. Using boxes or the trays makes it easy to see if the primers are in right side up or not seated fully.

 

[JiminCA]

Has happened to me about 3 or 4 times in 65K or so of reloads.

Once in a blue moon the primer gets flipped as the primer bar moves in my Dillon 550. The more common issue is for the primer to pop out of the cup before insertion into the brass, but sometimes it can flip if everything is just right.

I use ziplock bags - boxes are impractical in my view for the quantities of ammo that I load and shoot. The solution for me is to visually inspect all rounds that I use in competition (when I gauge them). The other practice that I now use is to look at the primer of each round as I put it into the magazine. Haven't caught one yet using these techniques, but it doesn't happen all that often.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I pick it up and find that the primer had been installed backwards!!!!!!!

I'm glad the primer didn't go off when it was seated.

 

[Khornet]

Interesting

I had that happen once in a .45 ACP reload....but nothing happened, no primer detonation at all.

 

[BluesBear]

I'm glad the primer didn't go off when it was seated.

There's really no more danger of a primer detonating being seated anvil out than there is anvil in.

 

[Penforhire]

Okay, here's a related safety question. Under that circumstance is it safer to remove the mag or leave it in while you're waiting to see what happens? Which way is less likely to allow the grip to explode in your hand?

 

[Feral_Goz]

Penforhire,
When I did my handgun course, we were taught to drop the mag before racking the slide.

Feral_Goz

 

[BluesBear]

Drop the magazine.

Then there will be nothing to contain the expanding gases and they should vent downward reasonably safely. The open magazine well being the path of least resistance.