I had a container full of 'already primed' 45 ACP cases ready to load. I had completed a batch of 100 before I noticed the firing pin marks in the 'new' primers.
I had a container full of 'already primed' 45 ACP cases ready to load. I had completed a batch of 100 before I noticed the firing pin marks in the 'new' primers.
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No pics of this one, but I almost blew a weekend pig hunt recently with some .308 loads with my FAL. I'd fired them the weekend before to test the load, came home, and began reloading those fired cases. Apparently I didn't set the resizing die correctly, and neglected to check the finished rounds afterward. Got out to the property and the rounds wouldn't fully chamber, and that was the only ammo I had brought. I watched a good handful of hogs eat all the corn around my feeder, and then slowly wander off without a care in the world. Found 2 out of the batch that would chamber, and finally was able to put one on the ground when they came back. Drove to wal mart the next morning and bought some ammo (first time ever buying ammo at a wal mart. It felt awkward...). Came home and re-processed all of that ammo, so all is good now.
I do have a small basket of screw-ups on my bench. Might try to get a pic of them. Mostly it's bulged shoulders from un-trimmed rifle brass, or a couple of shaved .45 rounds from not flaring the case enough, or primers that flipped in the tray and got inserted upside down.
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