Author Topic: From Bluebird to Buzzard in one week-end (Read 360 times)

Cheyenne Ranger · « **on:** July 28, 2003, 08:03:16 AM »

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.....
We had our monthy shoot this past week-end: On Saturday I cleaned all the stages--a Clean Match! After shooting CAS for 9 months all the targets went "clank" and all was right with the world (took forever to shot but that's beside the point). Got my Order of the Golden Bullet from SBSS for this. :grin:

Then we come to Sunday...

Figure I'd try again; well, first stage, first pistol: two rounds off downrange and the cylinder locks up--turns out to be high primers. So there went that idea. Went through the match and on the last stage had another one or two of those little suckers. Only got one off downrange. All in all, was not my finest hour.

Needless to say that as I reloaded today I have checked all the primers in what I loaded and what was left over from the match. Got 500 cartridges for both the rifle and pistol all ready to go (with NO high primers!) :roll:

Cheyenne

ButlerFord45 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 28, 2003, 10:18:34 AM »

Howdy Ranger!!! Good Shootin'!!

I too have experienced those high primer problems. It was the first time it ever happened to me and I couldn't figure what in blazes was wrong. Some one mentioned "high primer", I asked "high what??" sure enough, there they were, you had to get them in profile to see it. Hard to believe that such a little hump could cause so much problem. Next time it happens, which I figure it will, I'll at least know what it is. At least you got to go shootin'. What's the old addage " A bad day at the range......"

Capt Hamp Cox · « **Reply #2 on:** July 28, 2003, 11:54:03 AM »

Cheyenne,

All part of the CAS learning process. Don't care how much you read or hear about certain "difficulties" associated with this game, they don't mean much until it happens to ol' Self. Good thing about it is you always seem to retain information better if you experience it first hand. Bet it will be a long time before you have that type of stoppage again (if ever). Hang in there. Congrats on the clean match. Slow too shall pass.

Hamp

DB Leath · « **Reply #3 on:** July 28, 2003, 01:38:41 PM »

Conrats on the clean match

howdy doody · « **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2003, 03:58:27 PM »

Yup, it happens to us all. Speaking of high primers. I sight down my loaded bullets in the storage case from a couple different angles and have had luck spotting the occasional bad one. What I do then is pull the bullet and dump the powder and then soak the primer with a good dose of WD40 and then just save the case to be reloaded in the future. What do you pards do when you locate a high primer??

williamlayton · « **Reply #5 on:** July 30, 2003, 12:24:32 AM »

turn em into tha police--drugs are illegal.
blessings

Cheyenne Ranger · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2003, 05:52:22 AM »

Re: High primers--I just put them back in the primer seating station (Dillon SDB) and gently seat them. Haven't had one go off this way but I'm betting it would be a mess :grin: Figure it is as safe as when I loaded the primer in the case in the first place.
(My widow will let you know if I ever have a problem with it)
Cheyenne

howdy doody · « **Reply #7 on:** July 30, 2003, 07:59:55 AM »

Well, pard. I think that would be awful risky, but what do I know? I use a Dillon 650 press and to mess with reseating on it would be a pain anyway. Even though I unload the bullet, ie pull bullet and dump powder, it would be unfeasable for me to reseat and who's to say it didn't seat because of a piece of polishing media or something anyway? I just kill the primer and go through the motions all over again later on my next reloading session. Whats the cost of one primer, versus some major headache or that kind of stuff? BTW for some reason WD40 really kills 'em dead if you get enough on the gel. It's a better safe than sorry thing with me.

Roy Cobb · « **Reply #8 on:** July 30, 2003, 08:24:56 AM »

Hmmm for a 2 cent primer why worry about trying to reseat it?
just pull the bullet dump the powder punch out the primer and reseat one.

Ive done this a LOT and never had one go bang, nor have I had one go off while seating EVER not to say that they can't, law of averages says eventually one will....but I have never had it happen and when I started out reloading I did a lot of dumb things like forcing primers into cases that needed to be swaged and such.....