A couple of weeks ago while antelope hunting in Wyoming, had something happen that happens to every reloader....eventually.
I was setup on a doe at about 200 yards, head down feeding. Squeezed the trigger and just a pop. Jacked out the round and tried to chamber another....no go, couldn't close bolt. Looked down the barrel, no light. Then I knew I had a bullet stuck in the throat of the chamber. Went back to camp and got out a cleaning rod and a mallet and drove the bullet out after I squirted some WD40 down the barrel for lubricant. Destroyed the cleaning rod in the process.
My point is this:
I've been reloading for over 50 years and this is the first rifle round that I neglected to put powder in during the reloading sequence. I am very meticulous in my reloading, weighing every powder charge to the tenth of a grain. I reloaded these rounds maybe 5 years ago, so nothing is there memory wise. The only thing I could come up with is maybe I got interrupted or a phone call, something that would interrupt my loading sequence and I forgot where I was and missed a powder charge. I checked the other 300 or so rounds I have and found no others that had any problems.
Bottom line....DoDo happens eventually. I guess I have reloaded maybe 100,000 rounds and have never had this problem. Take heed my friends. I did fill that tag later in the day.
I was setup on a doe at about 200 yards, head down feeding. Squeezed the trigger and just a pop. Jacked out the round and tried to chamber another....no go, couldn't close bolt. Looked down the barrel, no light. Then I knew I had a bullet stuck in the throat of the chamber. Went back to camp and got out a cleaning rod and a mallet and drove the bullet out after I squirted some WD40 down the barrel for lubricant. Destroyed the cleaning rod in the process.
My point is this:
I've been reloading for over 50 years and this is the first rifle round that I neglected to put powder in during the reloading sequence. I am very meticulous in my reloading, weighing every powder charge to the tenth of a grain. I reloaded these rounds maybe 5 years ago, so nothing is there memory wise. The only thing I could come up with is maybe I got interrupted or a phone call, something that would interrupt my loading sequence and I forgot where I was and missed a powder charge. I checked the other 300 or so rounds I have and found no others that had any problems.
Bottom line....DoDo happens eventually. I guess I have reloaded maybe 100,000 rounds and have never had this problem. Take heed my friends. I did fill that tag later in the day.
