Share your hand loading mistakes!

[Mikej]

Wanna buy some handloads?

Don't know? How many fingers on both hands, total? Two working eyes I presume?

 

[Caveman Jim]

Do you have a hand press or a hydraulic press?

If you must know, it didn't blow up on me.

 

[DizzyJ]

Right after I picked my jaw up off the ground, took a pic, I put that bad boy in the kinetic puller and had to whack it five times to get it to unseat.

That's going to show up in the member quotes section…

 

[Flopsweat]

That's going to show up in the member quotes section…

Done!

 

[sobo]

That's going to show up in the member quotes section…

And this one, too!

 

[Ranb]

I might have posted this one before, but years go I was unable to close the action on my TC Encore with a .510 Whisper in the chamber. A long time later I finally pulled the bullet and found a double charge (52 grains) of WC820 in it. I think the gun might have been damaged, but would have stayed together.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Seems like you invented a new round there Caveman, the .40 S&W almost wadcutter. That round is a candidate for disassembly, no doubt.

I got to thinking that that bullet just might've been too cold to be sinking that far down into the case, you know what I mean. Lol

 

[DizzyJ]

I got to thinking that that bullet just might've been too cold to be sinking that far down into the case, you know what I mean. Lol

Shrinkage

 

[sobo]

Shrinkage

 

[Flopsweat]

Shrinkage

Edit: Damnit, @sobo.

 

[DizzyJ]

That's the one I was thinking of. Lol

 

[sobo]

That's the one I was thinking of. Lol

Truly a classic...

 

[JSAV97]

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Share the dumb things you have seen or done so that others may learn and laugh.I

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Share the dumb things you have seen or done so that others may learn and laugh.

Luckily the worst mistake I've made was dropping some primers while trying to load them on the tray. I was lucky that none of them detonated, and still functioned after seating them.

 

[GrayGoose]

The last handloading mistake I made lately resulted in her saying "wrong hole!".

 

[nammac]

The last handloading mistake I made lately resulted in her saying "wrong hole!".

Variety is the spice of life.

 

[sobo]

The last handloading mistake I made lately resulted in her saying "wrong hole!".

There is no such thing as a "wrong hole"... it's affectionately known as the "bonus hole"...

Follow me for more boudoir tips...

 

[saxon]

when loading 45 colt remember that on the scale 20.4 is not 24
that is all

 

[Mikej]

There is no such thing as a "wrong hole"... it's affectionately known as the "bonus hole"...

Follow me for more boudoir tips...

Oh lord, it IS true! You have some kinda, bizarre radar for posts like that.

 

[sobo]

Oh lord, it IS true! You have some kinda, bizarre radar for posts like that.

I'm here to help...

 

[nammac]

I'm here to help...

we're going to start calling you Pokie-man!