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cloverleaf · 2026-09-25T21:04:43-0700

Did a little reloading last weekend. Just going through some stuff and opened an old box of 100 gr Speers. I was using them to double check my scales, fortunately. They should have been 100 grn'rs. When one did and the other didnt I started taking some measurements and found that one was a 130 gr 7mm. Dont know if I could have loaded it into a .257 case but the results would not have been good! Dont know how I got it in that box of 100 grn'rs but yikes! CL

SJB358 · 2026-09-26T04:21:14-0700

You’re safe there. You would have crushed the bejesus out of the case trying to get that one in there.

wvbuckbuster · 2026-09-26T04:46:59-0700

Found a .224 bullet in the bag of Nosler .284 bullets I bought recently. Don't know how that happened but it was easily detected. You wouldn't have gotten that bullet seated.

highoctane · 2026-09-26T05:26:23-0700

15 years or so ago I bought a box Hornady 7mm 139gr spire pt bullets. When I opened them I immediately knew something wasn't right. Grabbed my calipers and measured them. Low and behold the bullets mixed in with the 7mm's were 264's.

I called Hornady, gave the lot number and they sent a couple boxes for replacement. It also triggered a recall on a couple of lot numbers of those bullets

salmonchaser · 2026-09-26T05:33:58-0700

I seem to recall, either here or maybe another of very few sites I visit, some one shooting 6mm bullets out of a 6.5 creedmore and having poor accuracy. I believe both were creedmore cartridges.
Anyway, yes, attention to detail is important.

SJB358 · 2026-09-26T05:49:28-0700

I did it once shooting the 270 and 7 WSM side by side one day years ago. Couldn’t figure out why the 7 didn’t shoot for beans. Well when I got to the bench I realized I sent 3 270 WSMs down the 7 tube

RL338 · 2026-09-26T06:15:42-0700

The only mismatch bullets I came across was some 150gr FMJ mixed in a box of 150gr SP from Hornady.

Heavy Barrel · 2026-09-26T15:20:43-0700

highoctane said:
It also triggered a recall on a couple of lot numbers of those bullets

After twelve years at a manufacturing company that caters to the automotive industry (Supplemental Restraint System connectors & harnesses, ECM connectors and harnesses, squib connectors for airbags, etc.), I can vividly picture the SHTF moment that caused. During my last week, they had to issue a global recall for several million terminals because someone somehow managed to plate the wrong end.