David I've thought a lot about that after you showed it to me and I'm not convinced it's the powder either but your next trial with the H110 will tell all. If it works out I'd send a good sample along with a lot # to be tested because you'll have a good bit of unusable powder on your hands and I know that aint cheap

Loaded a 5 gallon bucket of AA shotgun shells and had a couple three where I didn't throw the powder charge.... That was like 30 years ago.

There is always a risk but that's the only thing I have ever done. You just have to be careful and do things in order in batches and don't stop 1/2 way through one of your processes to go get a drink or something. One thing I do on a single stage is throw the charge and seat the bullet at the same time so I don't throw a double charge.

I do this also. All of the other procedures are done in batches until loading the powder and bullet. I think it is safer to do this.

DAY UM! Somebody shoulda been killed! Thank Gawd it was a SBH!!!!

Seen a Smith 57 missing one chamber&topstrap 17.8 of Unique instead of H4227. Oops!

Buddy of mine blew a supler blackhawk up in 44 mag. About 2 years ago. Using winchester auto comp. Powder. Long story short the the 2 rounds he loaded to see how they shot ended up getting double charged. Cylinder was no where to be found the top strap was bent up,the frame was bent. He was lucky he didnt even get a scratch on him

Super Blackhawks are some kind of tough guns....

I killed a deer with a 8mm fired out of a 30-06. I have since learned to pay more attention to sorting my reloads before deer season. Also fired a 8mm Nambu in a 7.62 Tokarev pistol. Again, I've learned to be more careful with rounds on the range.

There was a thread on here a couple years ago where a guy from another board posted his screw up. He had confused pistol powder for rifle powder and the first round from his brand new rifle, yielded horrendous results. The rifle was blown apart at the action, the sock and scope were blown in half and there was a pile of shrapnel. You can imagine was his trigger hand looked like too! I saved the link to the pic, but it was removed. I used it to show folks what could happen if you get complacent.

Very important to have a process.

I work from right to left. On a clean, uncluttered bench.
I also throw the charge and seat the bullet immediately before repeating the process for the next cartridge.

Back in the 90s I belonged to a Contender forum and we talked a lot about the various Ackley Improved rounds; many of them work well in a Contender. I found some old data where Mr. Ackley had given the recipe for a 30-30 Ackley Improved with a 150g bullet that produced a velocity of 2700 fps. Several people on there told me that was crazy and impossible.

Feeling that Mr. Ackley's integrity had been questioned, I decided I would do it with a carbine barrel. I found a 30-30 barrel and bought it and got Jimmy McCollough to rechamber it, then made up rounds increasing a half grain at a time until I reached the max that was supposed to give me 2700.

I carried them to the range and shot them over a chrony and watched the velocity rise with each shot. I got a flattened primer when I was still a grain below max, but shot the next round anyway. The gun broke open at the shot and it took some prying to remove the case, but the chrony read 2639. I didn't shoot the last one, but with a 26" barrel and a stronger gun I'm confident that 2700 was reachable.

I gotta admit it was foolish to push it that far. It may have stretched the frame, but I still have it and use it with the .22 barrel and it shoots fine. Most of my loading screw ups have just been recklessness more than errors.

My biggest screw up happened yesterday. I had loaded some 140 accubonds for my both my 7-08 and my 280 AI. I'd shoot a group with one, set it down to let the barrel cool and shoot the other one. Broke the rule about not having 2 different boxes open on the bench at the same time.
This is what a 7-08 case looks like after its fired through a 280 Ackley

Funny thing is I actually hit an 8" steel gong at 300 yards. Almost no recoil but the velocity had to have been pretty good to be that close at 300.

That's cool what it did to the brass, but not cool that it happened.

Thanks for sharing.

Glad it was the same diameter bullet.

God Bless,
David B.

Nice, I guess my worst would be having a few stuck cases due to not using enough case lube. Never have blown anything up yet. Be safe and pay close attention when y'all are loading and shooting.

buddy of mine was sighting in a 264WM and a 7mmRM some time. He loaded a 264 in the 7mm and fired it..keyholed the target and the brass blew out with a very short 7mm neck on it. Not good.

Just run into the 7-08 sizing die and everything will be OK! Hahahaha.

No powder in a 7 mag case once. Had to drive the bullet back out of the barrel with an oak dowel and a hammer.

My screw-ups at the bench have not been catastrophic yet. I once loaded 50 rounds of new 308 brass, only to notice the last two or three I could rotate with my fingers after seating. I went back and tested the whole batch and found nearly 20 that would turn. I hadn't neck sized the new brass, so I pulled the bullets and started over.

Also, after carefully weighing each charge of powder on some test rounds for my triple deuce, I found that I forgot to charge two of the darn cases. I usually charge all the cases before starting to seat the bullets. When I'm done with the powder, I always check the block of standing cases with a flashlight to make sure there's a charge in each. If I hadn't done that, I would have been dealing with a stuck bullet.

A friend of mine taught me how to reload. He had a very stringent step-by-step procedure that all but eliminated any careless errors. I find myself not quite as militant with it as he, but still have my game-face on while working up rounds.

Be safe out there!