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Share Some Reloading "Accidents"

gknaka2
I'm at work and bored. Last night I was decapping .45 cases and punctured my thumb, all the way to the die face. Hurts like a mother.

Want to hear some stories from you all on some harrowing experiences at the reloading bench...
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  • deadeye46
    serious situation turned "funny?"a friend of mine needed a small funnel to fill an unfilled sand bag and decided to use a "primed" 270 empty,duh he put it in a vice on his bench and after just a couple pushes with a hack saw the instant heat from the brass fired the primer out of the case and it went through both sides of his t-shirt under his armpit and into a white paint spray can which immediately rolled across his loading bench spraying everything in it's path,luckily he wasn't harmed but a lot of cleanup was required.just a note of caution,brass turns hot very quickly when cut with a saw.
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  • gknaka2
    Smashed my @!$%# finger again. Note to self...Gotta stop reloading after 11pm.
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  • norgexxx
    1976 at Camp Lejuene,1/2,just off two years of sea-duty CV64, bought a Lee Loader in the 4"x5" red box for my New Ruger Blackhawk .44mag. First night I jammed a semi-seated bullet and case in the wrong die, (do NOT reload after a week in the field and a six-pack on that Friday night) so I figured I could just drop a little oil down there and drill out the bullet with an electric hand drill, and the oil would be a fail safe to 'kill' the powder in case the bit went thru. Well the drill bit went thru and hit the primer before the oil killed anything, when detenation occured several things happened; the bullet with a 1/8" hole in the middle was guided straight up the drill-bit smashing the chucks into the drill and launching the drill to where it remained stuck in the ceiling of our trailer house. The .44 case went thru the top of the dresser (That was my work-bench, I was poor, oK??) and thru every drawer in that dresser and finally stopped in the linolium floor. The die acted as a chamber/barrel. That I didn't get my fool head shot off, or at least my hand is a miracle, but God had me picking pieces of lead (the bullet shattered when it hit the drill chucks I figure) out of my face, arms hands, and chest for a couple weeks. Told my skipper a old round went off in the BBQ over the week-end, he knew me from the 'old days', and didn't push it to hard but he figured I was BSin him, but he owed me so he let it slide. That one incident has saved me from countless other mistakes at the bench. It scared me so bad that I still stop and think, then wait and think some more. What a stupid way to have been killed, shot at a hundred times and missed and then shot and killed with the round I am reloading, what the hell could they have put on my tombstone? "The Idiot saved the gene pool?"
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  • floorguy24
    Great. Just frikin great. I'm this close to purchasing rcbs reloading equipment, and you guys post all this bad crap that happens after or during reloading. Now I'm thinking about forgetting the whole reloading idea, I like my fingers, hearing, etc.
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  • Hollywood
    Thats OK. Just purchase Hornady equipment instead, much safer![:D]
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  • gknaka2
    quote:Originally posted by floorguy24
    Great. Just frikin great. I'm this close to purchasing rcbs reloading equipment, and you guys post all this bad crap that happens after or during reloading. Now I'm thinking about forgetting the whole reloading idea, I like my fingers, hearing, etc.


    But notice how we still do it...it's a passion
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  • Justjump
    quote:Originally posted by floorguy24
    Great. Just frikin great. I'm this close to purchasing rcbs reloading equipment, and you guys post all this bad crap that happens after or during reloading. Now I'm thinking about forgetting the whole reloading idea, I like my fingers, hearing, etc.


    Don't worry... Really, you got 10 fingers to start with and hearing is highly overrated.[;)]
    O ya and get a blue press[:D]
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  • gregoryhart1
    The only "Oops " I can recall is having to pull a couple of hundred rounds that were udercharged. I also had a few FTF situations, but I think that was due to the powder being fouled by case lube.
    In later efforts I used less lube and did a more thorough job of wiping, before I switched to carbide dies. Then of course my lube problems were over.
    GH1[:)]
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  • Ambrose
    Replenishing the lead in the pot while casting bullets. Apparently there was a little condensation on the piece I put in. Of course, instantly turned to steam. The funny thing was: Only a few tiny spatters on the fingers of my hand and a LOT on the back of my shirt! I was half way across the basement before my next thought. Apparently I was pretty fast in those days.
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