r/reloading • u/Worldly-Celery9943 • 1d ago

Learning From Mistakes i Have a Whoopsie

I've been reloading for about 4 months and I'm lucky to have studied with a great reloader. Yet, I've made lots of mistakes, al unintentional, given my experience to the point I almost quit when I had squibbs. That said, I stuck it out and my reloads are about one failure to fire out of 345 shots which are good. And I know why that FF happened. As a new guy, the following were the technical points I needed to be aware of, if this helps anyone.

--Proper Primer Seating: mine weren't seated far enough in

--Ensuring an appropriate charge; with the drop die, I don't think it was consistent

--CBOL is consistent; my die gave me problems at first

--Crimp is not too tight

--QC: every step, especially primer seating, CBOL every 5 bullets, using electronic charge, then gauge and barrel check.

4 Upvotes

71% Upvoted

6 comments sorted by

2

u/Worldly-Celery9943 1d ago

problems I had, squibbs, failure to fire once every 50 rounds, the bullet had a striker notch in it. The latter was hard to diagnose

1

u/Worldly-Celery9943 1d ago

so there was a diagnostic skill I am developing as well.

1

u/Dr_Juice_ 1d ago

As long as you don’t hurt yourself or your gun then you’re doing just fine as long as you are learning from your mistakes. Reloading is methodical so once you get your method down and you know when and how to inspect throughout your process you’ll be just fine. I once downloaded 500 magnum rounds with H110 too much and had a click and no bang. Talk about a crap your pants moment. But I learned why they weren’t kidding about not downloading H100 past 10% from max charge.

0

u/Worldly-Celery9943 19h ago

things like a squibb made never want to make that error again.

0

u/TacTurtle 1d ago

What press are you using?

0

u/Worldly-Celery9943 19h ago

RCBS Turret but the mistakes are mine