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[29aholic]

Damn I thought only Colt made "Open Tops".
Seriously I thank the powers that be that noone was injured. Looks like a dbl charge to me too.
FWIW my progressive press amounts to two Rockchuckers side by side, and a B&M powder thrower. Once I get past the size and prime stage, I put my expander die in one press and seater in the other. I expand the case then trun it over into my funnel. I then drop the charge from my B&M into the powder measure tube, pick the funnel and case up and pour the powder in. Then it is on to the other with the seater die where the bullet is seated and the round is boxed. works pretty good and even should something distract me, the worse that can happen is NO powder charge.

 

[Gun 4 Fun]

If it was a double charge, and the odds are pretty great for that, this is a prime example of why you should visually inpect every single case. It's quite easy to see a double charge in a .44 or .45 Colt case if you actually look once they're all done being charged. In 30 years of loading, I've caught exactly two that way.
Too bad about the whole situation. If some jack-boot yahoo anti-gun "person" sees this and puts out there on you-tube, it'll make the whole notion of "ordinary" people beng able to load their own seem dangerous and foolhardy, and give them something else to wine about.

 

[moses]

Just take it over to BUBBA and he will weld it up for you!

 

[MikeyL]

Wow. I use WW231 in a lot of applications, from 9mm to 45 Colt, and I'm pretty much in line with everybody else...double charge! Some years ago when I was shooting IPSC, I was in a hurry, and double charged some 45 ACP...about four or five rounds, as I recall. Something to do with having significant brain fade. I felt...no, knew...something was wrong, stopped loading, went back to the basic setup procedure, and discovered my mistake. Thank God they didn't get out of the room! Glad no one was hurt in this deal.

Happy New Year, You-All!

MikeyL

 

[Nframe_is_no1]

Originally posted by andyo5: A double charge of 231 would not look abnormal to the casual observer.

Not true. I load 7.1 gr of 231 in the .45 Colt for my 25-5. I visually inspect EACH case in a loading block prior to seating bullets. I once caught a double charge that way. 231 is much bulkier than Bullseye. The double charged case was spotted easily, and was much fuller than the others as 14.2 gr of 231 filled it at least 3/4 of the way up. In this case, 18.2 gr of 231 (a double charge) would have filled the .44 magnum at least 3/4 of the way up. This was pure carelessness, and nothing more. FWIW, I use 9.5 gr of 231 as my everyday workin' load in the .44 magnum. It's good for about 1200 fps in my 6 1/2" 29-2, and is easy on the gun and shooter.

 

[jbcap]

If you look closely at the primers of the fired casings, it appears they were all hot loads. You can see the primers are flattened and appear to have swelled back around the firing pin. Joe

 

[max]

Tell you what, I won't charge you for those reloads.

 

[Chief Engineer]

Looks like he still had one more to go. Did he just get tired of shooting?

 

[Speedo2]

I find it interesting that the still-primed shell casing cooked-off like that. Also, that the shell casing on the opposite side of the cylinder appears crushed from compression, and then fragmented. Must have been some bodacious pressure waves involved in that miss-adventure. As is often said when things catastrophically burst in the old fossil plants: "Looks like the hoop stress done exceeded the yield strength"...hate it when that happens. (We say other things in the nuke-plants.) Also glad that nobody was injured. Thanks for posting. -S2

 

[S&W-Keeper]

Ouch! that is an attention getter.

 

[Philbert-D]

That's a shame about the gun but im glad to hear that no one was hurt.

 

[BillM]

Any chance that this was a bullet in barrel?

In the top pictures the casing at the top left has a spent primer and the casing at the top right has an intact primer.

The round in the topmost cylinder is not visible of course.

Could it be that the top left round was under-charged and left the bullet in the barrel and the round in the cylinder which is completely
missing went into hyper-pressure because of that?

 

[bamabiker]

If the previous bullet were stuck in the barrel there would be damage to the barrel, bulged or split, I would think.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

A fine example od a used not abused shooterBluing a strong 95% but a bit of a timing problem

 

[NMPinNYC]

That should buff right out ...

 

[maglvr]

I'll bet that had some interesting recoil

 

[moxie]

pownal55

That load is on the Alliant website and not especially hot.
http://www.alliantpowder.com/reloaders/RecipeDetail.asp...ellid=33&bulletid=52

 

[Klatuu]

That won't buff out with Mother's Mag.

 

[pownal55]

thanks moxie, but i was refering to accidently double-charging a load as the original poster suggested he may have done.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Originally posted by Dale53:
Only carelessness will do that. The shame of it, it will give newbies the idea that reloading is unsafe.

Reloading IS unsafe, unless you take well-planned steps to avert the effects of occasional human "carelessness."