Ksmirk
Well-Known Fanatic
Well boys and girls got the 550 up and running last night and rolled a few 40's, now this is the first time in my almost 30 years of reloading I have EVER loaded for pistol so the boy has some nerve issues when I got to the range after work today! enough I took a pair of gloves, put on the good safety glasses kinda turned my head a bit pulled the trigger and boom, the round went off like everything should have along with about 20 more rounds so I'm stoked
3 rounds into my my 3rd magazine and the dangdest thing happened, I pulled the trigger and I heard a pop! not a bang but a pop, thought that was kinda odd so like any good curious person I took the pistol apart and ya know there was still a bullet in the barrel about .25 from the chamber grrrr well now I'm feeling like a dumbass cause well as safe a reloader as I am and I pay attention I SCREWED UP! but it turned out to be a good trip to the range as someone this weekend left me a whole bunch of 223 brass cases all over the ground and from the amount I picked up they must have gone thru a case, the rounds I worked up for the AR worked AWESOME!
I'm working on a better light so I can see in those 40 cases to be sure there is powder in there before I load up anymore for sure! anyone know if there is some sort of cool thinggy to put on a 550 like a powder cop or the like? or is there some sort of way that I can make SURE there is powder in the cases? Later,
Kirk
3 rounds into my my 3rd magazine and the dangdest thing happened, I pulled the trigger and I heard a pop! not a bang but a pop, thought that was kinda odd so like any good curious person I took the pistol apart and ya know there was still a bullet in the barrel about .25 from the chamber grrrr well now I'm feeling like a dumbass cause well as safe a reloader as I am and I pay attention I SCREWED UP! but it turned out to be a good trip to the range as someone this weekend left me a whole bunch of 223 brass cases all over the ground and from the amount I picked up they must have gone thru a case, the rounds I worked up for the AR worked AWESOME!
I'm working on a better light so I can see in those 40 cases to be sure there is powder in there before I load up anymore for sure! anyone know if there is some sort of cool thinggy to put on a 550 like a powder cop or the like? or is there some sort of way that I can make SURE there is powder in the cases? Later,
Kirk