Originally Posted by
Razorhunter
Gotcha, and agreed, thanks.
I'm curious to know exactly what winds up being the issue as well.
Even if this truly winds up being an improperly crimped round, which caused bullet setback, I'd still like to ask if anyone here has ever felt like a progressive, or multi stage reloading press is a good idea to use?
I mean, I've just always felt like the Dillon 550 my brother and I own, is somewhat of an accident waiting to happen, despite the care and utmost of attention to detail we put into reloading rounds.
I've experienced a few of "weak" .45ACP rounds over the years, which we reloaded on the Dillon 550, but never have we experienced a squib, or any failure of the bullet to leave the bbl.
However, I have always worried that the wrong amount of powder could eventually be put into one of our rounds, which could equal devastating results, especially if it were to be a DOUBLE powder charge, due to some kind of possible malfunction with the Dillon 550 press.
I just don't trust those things, especially when doing many hundreds/thousands of rounds on such a progressive/multi stage press.
Keeping an eye on crimping and setback, or overall length of the round is one thing, but trying to keep an eye on how much powder is put into each shell casing is much more difficult, if not virtually impossible on such a reloading press.
I've just never felt comfortable shooting reloads done on a progressive press.
About the only reload I would trust enough to be really comfortable, would be rounds reloaded on a SINGLE stage press, done by myself, and myself only. IOW's, I have never trusted reloaded ammo from such companies as GA Arms/etc.
I've had several "mini-KABOOMS" with GA ARMS/etc ammo. Of course, I'm not telling you guys anything you don't already know in regards to reloads. You've all heard of many such happenings with the reloaded ammo, I'm sure.