Squibs happen. I'd bet of members here 75% would lie about a squib or not report the issue because it's the most embarrassing thing that can happen in loading ammo.
I've had one in 15 years that stuck in a revolver barrel. I have no clue how it happened. It was in my first year loading ammo besides shot shells, single stage press, one at a time operation.
I went through a stage where I was a bit of a range Rat. I've seen some piss poor reloads, some of them really stupid stuff. people mess up, but the good thing is the margin of error is huge, a lot more than most would have you believe. I've been shocked lots of times what didn't get someone hurt or blow a gun up atleast.
i saw some kids having trouble with some shotshells one day, lots of smoke out the barrel. I cut a shell open to find some odd looking stick powder. Kids had went to the store and bough random powder and went to town on dads press. Lucky they grabbed the rifle powder and not some super fast burning stuff.
I helped a guy beat his bolt open one day on a 243. It was obvious over pressure. A friend had loaded him some bullets. The recepie was in the box. Looked up the info in the current hornady book (hornady bullet) it was 5 grains over Max. We pulled the bullets at my place and found not only were they overcharged. But the powder was contaminated (10% ish) with some sort of ball powder mixed in with h4895.
Then there was the 243 bullets a man had with .224 slugs in them. He was super proud of them and had paid a guy he knew to load them custom for him. The bullets were loose in the brass. You could slip them up and down. A radical roll crimp was holding them in the canalure. The dude didn't believe me and shot 5 of them before conceding there was an issue. He kept saying that his buddy was a real good loader and they were supposed to be loose like that.
I used to get mad at ranges and stuff that don't allow reloads. But I see why now. If you can tell they are reloads by looking they probably don't need shot around other folks!
I've had one in 15 years that stuck in a revolver barrel. I have no clue how it happened. It was in my first year loading ammo besides shot shells, single stage press, one at a time operation.
I went through a stage where I was a bit of a range Rat. I've seen some piss poor reloads, some of them really stupid stuff. people mess up, but the good thing is the margin of error is huge, a lot more than most would have you believe. I've been shocked lots of times what didn't get someone hurt or blow a gun up atleast.
i saw some kids having trouble with some shotshells one day, lots of smoke out the barrel. I cut a shell open to find some odd looking stick powder. Kids had went to the store and bough random powder and went to town on dads press. Lucky they grabbed the rifle powder and not some super fast burning stuff.
I helped a guy beat his bolt open one day on a 243. It was obvious over pressure. A friend had loaded him some bullets. The recepie was in the box. Looked up the info in the current hornady book (hornady bullet) it was 5 grains over Max. We pulled the bullets at my place and found not only were they overcharged. But the powder was contaminated (10% ish) with some sort of ball powder mixed in with h4895.
Then there was the 243 bullets a man had with .224 slugs in them. He was super proud of them and had paid a guy he knew to load them custom for him. The bullets were loose in the brass. You could slip them up and down. A radical roll crimp was holding them in the canalure. The dude didn't believe me and shot 5 of them before conceding there was an issue. He kept saying that his buddy was a real good loader and they were supposed to be loose like that.
I used to get mad at ranges and stuff that don't allow reloads. But I see why now. If you can tell they are reloads by looking they probably don't need shot around other folks!
