Totally my fault for not giving my undivided attention, but yes, I counted my fingers and blinked a few times.... very lucky
Makes you really think and apriciate the power of the science going on in those little primers. After you realise your ok.
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Totally my fault for not giving my undivided attention, but yes, I counted my fingers and blinked a few times.... very lucky
nothing came through the outer tube, luckily it did it's job. The follower shot straight up and hit my shop light and broke a bulb (big mess). It left a nice dent in the fixture, don't know where it went off to after that, still can't find it.
When looking at the press after the incident. I noticed that the decaping pin was bent. So I think that I was trying to push a primer into a case that was not deprimed yet. I had some corn cob media giving me friction on the press, so thats probably why I didn't notice the extra friction when that case did not deprime. That was my big mistake, I thought I could cut corners and do two steps at once. After this, it's back to the correct way, it's safer.
This is what happens when you push a little to hard when seating Lg. rifle primers with a Dillon 650
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Damn, so just to learn from you experience, do you think it was a slamming force that set it off, ie, you quickly accelerated the new primer into the case with a quick forward press on the handle, or do you think it was just over pressure (ie, just slow, deliberate, continuous force forward on the handle?)
Filled my primer pickup tube, raised it up and bumped my hand as I set it in place -- sending 100 small pistol primers all over the gdmn place.
Picked them all up and finished loading 300 rounds of 115 grn 9mm.
I had a similar experience last night.
Sizing some coated cast bullets with a lee sizer... they must have stacked up and pushed the lid off..... couple handfuls of 44 bullets covered the whole damn floor. Good times.
Switched the LNL over to load 30-06. My first time making reduced loads for the A3 using 2400 powder and a 168 Gr Nosler BTHP. Maybe this weekend I'll have time to test them so I can make more for my grandfather to try out in the spring.
You can run reduced loads with H4895 and trailboss also.
Just be careful with 2400 and the powder charge. It doesn't take much to get into the danger zone with 2400.
That said I run 2400 with a 165 grain cast flat nose bullet in my A3 nice and soft. I need to run at the 600 yard mark to be on at 200 yards.
Reduced loads are fun and with the heavy a3
I don't have any H4895 or Trailboss on hand but got about 7 pounds of 2400.
The Lyman manual had data for a cast 170 gr bullet using 2400. 18.5 gr - 29.5 gr was the min - max. I "figured/assumed" 20 gr might be a safe charge to try? I loaded them to 3.25" while Lyman suggests 3.013" - granted its a completely different bullet.
Flame me if I sound like stupid/unsafe for doing that lol.
I started making reduced loads for the 30/06 about 25 years ago when my son was a little boy and wanted to shoot something bigger than the .22. The load was the Lyman 31141 ahead of 20 grains of SR4759. I also loaded the same bullet ahead of 15 grains in the 30/30. The loads were quite accurate and pleasant to shoot.
In the newest handloader magazine they have reduced rifle loads.
They list a 7X57 with a 150 cast bullet and 14.5 grains of unique. I know it's not the 7.5 Swiss but I'm thinking based off of case capacities you could work something up pretty easy.
They list 1700+ FPS with a .75" group at 100 yards.
Or you could look up C.E. Harris "The Load" 13 grains of red dot with a nominal weight cast bullet in normal modern military cases (30-06, Mausers, .308)
http://www.gmdr.com/lever/lowveldata.htm
I think I loaded 3200 rounds today. All 9mm.
2200+ 147gr Blues over 3.3gr N320 at 1.145", 250 135gr Blues over 3.6gr N320 at 1.145" (leftover sample pack), 500 147gr JHP (unknown.. bought them as pulls) seated them at 1.085" to cover the pull/crimp mark and used 4.7gr Power Pistol, and lastly 250 147gr HST pulls (1.134" over 5.1gr Power Pistol).
I'm officially out of 9mm brass, haha. I still have like 150 124gr GDHP kicking around that I bought years ago -- I was hoping to have enough brass left to load those up today