Zaydok Allen
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I decided to load some 10mm yesterday and I switched to a new load. I was starting low with 12.1 gr of Accurate #9 under a 180 gr JFP.
I zeroed my beam scale, and then set it to 12.1 gr. I started tweaking my powder throw on my Dillon to get the proper amount of powder dispensed. As I was continuing to have to increase the throw to even get the scale to move, I started to wonder what was going on. I looked in the case and it looked like it would be a compressed load. WTH? The data I was using went up to 13.5 grains, so where exactly would more powder be going?
Then I looked at my scale to see what was going on. The largest slide was just slightly left of where it should have been and somehow was not sitting in the 10 grain notch. Uh oh. So I decided to see how much powder I was actually dispensing. It weighed in at 15.4 grains.
Considering that was almost 2 grains more than the max load data I was working with, it spooked me pretty good. I fixed the issue and started throwing powder correctly. I had a few other bobbles though.
I realized I was really distracted and made a few other mistakes. I caught the edge of a case on the powder funnel, and it wrecked the case, and then sent powder all over. Great. Then I managed to put a bullet on the powder throw station! Dammit man, pay attention! Get the vacuum out AGAIN.
The bottom line was I had to re-center myself and focus to even finish. Three major errors in 100 rounds, and obvious and avoidable ones too? Ok, I'm done. Finished the 100 and put everything away. I had planned on loading 300 rounds or more, but clearly I wasn't in it.
I learned................
I zeroed my beam scale, and then set it to 12.1 gr. I started tweaking my powder throw on my Dillon to get the proper amount of powder dispensed. As I was continuing to have to increase the throw to even get the scale to move, I started to wonder what was going on. I looked in the case and it looked like it would be a compressed load. WTH? The data I was using went up to 13.5 grains, so where exactly would more powder be going?
Then I looked at my scale to see what was going on. The largest slide was just slightly left of where it should have been and somehow was not sitting in the 10 grain notch. Uh oh. So I decided to see how much powder I was actually dispensing. It weighed in at 15.4 grains.
Considering that was almost 2 grains more than the max load data I was working with, it spooked me pretty good. I fixed the issue and started throwing powder correctly. I had a few other bobbles though.
I realized I was really distracted and made a few other mistakes. I caught the edge of a case on the powder funnel, and it wrecked the case, and then sent powder all over. Great. Then I managed to put a bullet on the powder throw station! Dammit man, pay attention! Get the vacuum out AGAIN.
The bottom line was I had to re-center myself and focus to even finish. Three major errors in 100 rounds, and obvious and avoidable ones too? Ok, I'm done. Finished the 100 and put everything away. I had planned on loading 300 rounds or more, but clearly I wasn't in it.
I learned................
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