Last winter I reloaded 3000 147gr 9mm for the summer shooting season.
Also 1000 .380 for my wife's gun.
The last few times shooting I had 2 duds. Seemed like a bad primer. Powder was fine no other issue with the cartridge.
2 was too many. I just spent 20 min going over my last 500 rounds, BAD PRIMER in one of the loaded rounds.
I think that trying to crank out the rounds made me make simple mistakes. My only 2 thoughts are, the primer did not clear all the way out and went right to powder stage,or I picked up a used primer off the table with the pick up tube. Either way, I need to slow down and make sure this does not happen again.
Just thought I'd share my mistakes with the new guys.
Thanks, Mike
Also 1000 .380 for my wife's gun.
The last few times shooting I had 2 duds. Seemed like a bad primer. Powder was fine no other issue with the cartridge.
2 was too many. I just spent 20 min going over my last 500 rounds, BAD PRIMER in one of the loaded rounds.
I think that trying to crank out the rounds made me make simple mistakes. My only 2 thoughts are, the primer did not clear all the way out and went right to powder stage,or I picked up a used primer off the table with the pick up tube. Either way, I need to slow down and make sure this does not happen again.
Just thought I'd share my mistakes with the new guys.
Thanks, Mike
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