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I get the method but the math doesn't seem to work. How do you layout 25 case/bullets and end up with 5 bullets and 7 cases? Also if you have the same number of cases and bullets your loading how do you end up with an extra one?I have always found ways to check my own work. when its time to charge cases, I line up 10 cases and 10 bullets in the block. I charge all 10 cases settle the powder and tip the whole block so that I can just see the powder, it is really evident when one case has only a tiny difference in powder.
Then I seat all 10 bullets and place the loaded rounds in an empty block. if I have a bullet or charged case left over I know somewhere I seated a bullet on an empty case. now at most I only have to break down at most 10 rounds to find that one ! when I'm sure everything is right I move the finished rounds to the range box or if they are hunting rounds I seal them.
The only time I varied from this it came back to bite me. I was making test rounds for a new gun and laid out 25 cases to make 5 runs of 5 cases each.
I dropped powder in the first 5 cases, seated the bullets, reset the powder measure, dropped 5 more charges, seated the bullets, and when I got to the end of the tray instead of 5 empty cases I had 7, two had powder charges. which meant somewhere in the 20 loaded cases there were two with no powder.
The whole time I was breaking down rounds I was thinking " never change the routine" and "when loading think about the loading not the test ". never put more cases in the block than I'm going to load in that group.
I went over 40 years of reloading before I got a squib. and I got two in one batch. the first bullet made it out of the barrel but just barely, and the second stuck mid barrel. both had powder but it fizzled instead of igniting. My best guess is I had 2 bad primers. DR