Reloading PSA- found at range inspired

[sherrick13]

Found these yesterday.

It helps to load powder into the brass thingy before seating the bullet.







Interesting side note. The 6.5-284 has quite the case capacity and the primer charge pressure didn't move the bullet out even a mm.



Charred bottom from the primer going off.

 

[Letfreedomring]

Surprised the embarrassed reloader didn't try to hide/take the evidence with him...

 

[ratski]

Way back when I was a kid, my uncle was my shooting "guru".
I would collect some of the spent brass at the range as well as some of the spent projos
At home I would work to put the proper "bullet" with the proper "case" and hand seat them.
My uncle told me, at one time, that this wasn't a great idea because someone might think that they were rounds that had been "fired" but didn't go off.

 

[jspurgeon]

Surprised the primer didn't push them out far enough to lock things up.

 

[red dirt shootist]

You find some great stuff. Member that time you found a Mercedes Benz in the dumpster? Maybe we could hang out together?

 

[RickN]

When I was doing brass I would find those every now and then, or loaded but no primer. Primer in upside down, etc. I even found a couple with 2 bullets in the case. I blame most of it on automatic loaders.

 

[WoodsCraft]

Surprised the primer didn't push them out far enough to lock things up.

A properly sized neck with good tension won't let the bullet move with just a primer even if there isn't a crimp. I've seen the same with magnum primers as what's in those photos many times.

 

[tim]

Well I thought that happened to me last week pulled my bullet and full load of powder primer failed to go boom, first time that ever happened to me.

 

[swampratt]

Well I thought that happened to me last week pulled my bullet and full load of powder primer failed to go boom, first time that ever happened to me.

Did the primer have an anvil in it?