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  • Bug Splat
    Calguns Addict
    • Dec 2007
    • 6561

    Be honest. Did you?

    When you shot your very first reloads did you squint your eyes real tight and turn your face away a little bit half expecting a kaboom?
  • #2
    762cavalier
    NRA Training Counselor
    CGN Contributor
    • Oct 2005
    • 3626

    No. I just loaded up a mag and

    In any type of fight, & especially gun fights, there are no winners ..... just varying degrees of losers. The only fight you win is the one you never get into.

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    • #3
      armygunsmith
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2008
      • 2087

      No, but my friends wouldn't touch the stuff even though I had over 300 reloads. Too bad for them, I had a blast.
      SECRET//NOFORN
      "Sometimes it's easier to do it the hard way."
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      • #4
        bubbapug1
        Calguns Addict
        • Nov 2008
        • 7958

        no...but I accidently loaded 100 rounds with 4.3 grains of bullseye and seated teh bullets too deep for an overall length of 1.07...the minimum is supposedly 1.12 for that load. Its not a max load, and its not compressed, but when I shot them tomorrow I will be squinting.
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        • #5
          tdc57
          Senior Member
          • Apr 2009
          • 560

          Noooo I if did I wouldn’t have shoot them.. Why risk a gun and or harm to me on a chance and prayer. If you follow the reloading manuals, do proper research you’ll be fine..

          Don’t get me wrong! I’ve made my fare share of mistakes and have had to pull many, many rounds apart because I wasn’t sure about something the following morning, etc. But I know that every round I shoot will go bang and in the general area I’m pointing it without any harm to me or my gun.

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          • #6
            PolishMike
            Calguns Addict
            • Nov 2007
            • 6034

            string around the trigger.


            /thread
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            • #7
              five.five-six
              CGN Contributor
              • May 2006
              • 34883

              Originally posted by PolishMike
              string around the trigger.


              /thread
              that's an old C&R trick, pop a few one at a time and check the cases

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              • #8
                taloft
                Well used Member
                CGN Contributor
                • Sep 2002
                • 2696

                Originally posted by five.five-six
                that's an old C&R trick, pop a few one at a time and check the cases
                Sometimes the old tricks are the best tricks.
                .




                "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."--Plato

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                • #9
                  JagerTroop
                  Veteran Member
                  • Nov 2007
                  • 3922

                  Not when I fired my own loads, but I did say a little prayer when my buddy asked me to fire the first round of his 300 Ultra Mag reloads





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                  • #10
                    ivanimal
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                    CGN Contributor - Lifetime
                    • Sep 2002
                    • 14364

                    Nope 357 Magnum, shot them with the really experienced guy that showed me how to reload in the first place. We volume measured every round so I knew we were OK.
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                    • #11
                      phish
                      Veteran Member
                      • Jan 2006
                      • 3089

                      I was more worried about my receiver going boom. They don't make M1As the way they used to.

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                      • #12
                        ar15barrels
                        I need a LIFE!!
                        • Jan 2006
                        • 57146

                        Originally posted by Bug Splat
                        When you shot your very first reloads did you squint your eyes real tight and turn your face away a little bit half expecting a kaboom?
                        Yes.
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                        • #13
                          doc1buc
                          Senior Member
                          • Oct 2008
                          • 1670

                          HELL YES I DID. I'm self taught, so far so good!
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                          • #14
                            WileyWilly
                            Senior Member
                            • May 2008
                            • 506

                            No fear whatsoever. My first handloads were made at a friends house under his supervision and on his equipment.
                            WW

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                            • #15
                              Blwnbwtie
                              Member
                              • Jan 2008
                              • 300

                              I was pretty nervous, but i was also pretty sure that i read the book enough times and followed the load data.

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