What would you do?

[Heavy Barrel]

My favorite is bumping a tray of weighed load that don’t have the bullets seated and powder flies… atleast the recovery is t that bad…

I have never been gutsy enough to load a full tray before seating the bullets.

 

[Vince]

I never make mistrakes.
PJ

Vince

 

[Wolfshead]

My favorite is bumping a tray of weighed load that don’t have the bullets seated and powder flies… atleast the recovery is t that bad…

I did that to a tray of thirty rounds in .3 grain increments for load testing….

 

[michsteve]

I've posted this before my one mistake was I was reloading 45/70 and was halfway thru when my powder scale started getting low so I added more powder. After about 10 more loads my scale started getting whacky every new charge the load was off. So I keep loading to the end just using trickler to finish off my loads then it hits me.

I was using Reloder 7 and right next to my 7 was Reloder 17 since Reloader all use the same colored bottles you can only tell difference by the label. Lesson here don't put the powder you are using next to another powder if the bottles are the same style.

 

[jimbires]

I've posted this before my one mistake was I was reloading 45/70 and was halfway thru when my powder scale started getting low so I added more powder. After about 10 more loads my scale started getting whacky every new charge the load was off. So I keep loading to the end just using trickler to finish off my loads then it hits me.

I was using Reloder 7 and right next to my 7 was Reloder 17 since Reloader all use the same colored bottles you can only tell difference by the label. Lesson here don't put the powder you are using next to another powder if the bottles are the same style.

I have my powder stored in cabinets , under the reloading bench , off the bench top . I try to only have my desired powder , and primer , on the bench while loading . as I said before , it's gotta be foolproof , or I'll screw it up .

 

[Ralt71]

I've done this before in the past. What I started doing some years ago is labeling my rounds. I have a reloading notebook that I just take random notes on as I'm loading. Once my stuff is dialed in, I have a clean notebook that I record my load spec in without all the notes from along the way. What I started doing is outlining my reloading by number and I take the load as I finish it and write the number on the primer before I set it in the tray. Here is how I do it;
1. 48.5gr H1000 - seat .055, WLRM
2 48.8gr H1000 - seat .055 WLRM
etc... any changes in my set gets a new number and that goes on the primer. So if they get moved for any reason, I know what each load it and by putting it on the primer, I'm not trying to clean marker off my cases.

 

[wvbuckbuster]

Well, on a similar note, I pulled a real boner this morning. Loaded up some for a ladder test in that CVA Cascade Heavy Varmint. Had them properly marked on my data sheet. Got the bright idea that I would load all of them up in the ten round magazine to check function while recording the velocity. Magazine functioned perfectly but the reading was off. For some reason the velocity was lower for the upper powder levels on not one but two different ladder test loads using same Nosler 60gr BT just different powders. Didn't dawn on me until talking to my son this evening telling him about it that I had loaded the shells backwards into the magazine, lesser charges when in first come out last. At least I didn't dump them out just had to reconfigure my listings. I do make mistakes.