BBerguson
Official Pennsyltuckian
I forced something, and it broke…
I was loading some 44mag s to test and was just getting started as this happened on the 2nd case I was sizing. Compared to a lot of cartridges, 44mag require more effort to size so I didn’t think too much of it, just put more effort into it. Pulled the case off the press and the spent primer was still in it. Looked in the bottom of the die and there was a, wait for it…, a bullet in it! Got my wrenches and pulled the depriming stem out and it was a 9mm bullet and of course I broke the pin with no replacement. It’s a Redding die with a one piece stem/pin so nothing to even match it that I know of. Cripes I should have listened to my own advice! Don’t force it, don’t be in a hurry, you’ll just break something and then you’re further behind!
Lucky for me, I have my Dillon setup for 44mag so I just had to get that switched over and I was going again. I just use the single stage for small test batches but I won’t be doing that with 44mag for awhile. Maybe someday I’ll learn.
I was loading some 44mag s to test and was just getting started as this happened on the 2nd case I was sizing. Compared to a lot of cartridges, 44mag require more effort to size so I didn’t think too much of it, just put more effort into it. Pulled the case off the press and the spent primer was still in it. Looked in the bottom of the die and there was a, wait for it…, a bullet in it! Got my wrenches and pulled the depriming stem out and it was a 9mm bullet and of course I broke the pin with no replacement. It’s a Redding die with a one piece stem/pin so nothing to even match it that I know of. Cripes I should have listened to my own advice! Don’t force it, don’t be in a hurry, you’ll just break something and then you’re further behind!
Lucky for me, I have my Dillon setup for 44mag so I just had to get that switched over and I was going again. I just use the single stage for small test batches but I won’t be doing that with 44mag for awhile. Maybe someday I’ll learn.