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[Shinesintx]

NEVER buy re-loads at a gun show!!! My TBH son found this out the hard way with 10mm re-loads and he learned...never again. IMO of course!!

This

[miket]

I use a progressive, but I go slow and look in each case. It's still a lot faster than single stage, but it'd frustrate a real progressive reloader that really cranks them out.

Sometimes I use and RCBS powder checker.

Yep.

[dustoffer]

Not intended to bad mouth Glocks, just some good tips/hints/advice in the thread for all of us---

[miket]

I havent really been keeping up with the "gun scene" in the last 10yrs or so but when I shot IDPA and IPSC when I would pick up brass I could always tell which ones came from a Glock because the all had a bulge about 2/3 of the way down on one side due to chamber shape ( to aid feeding ). I even had to grind my dies down to get down the case far enough to resize them or they wouldnt chamber in my pistols. I cant help but wonder if that has anything to do with any of the issues in the link. Seems most blew from the bottom

[bboswell]

Absolutely spot-on. I was shooting my S&W M1917 revolver in .45ACP and was in the rapid fire mode--bang, bang, bang, pop, bang--WTH? Cylinder wouldn't turn. Obviously one of my handloads didn't have a propellant charge in it and the primer drove the bullet into the forcing cone far enough and the next full-charge round just pushed both the projectiles on out the tube. Only damage I could find was a slight belling of the forcing cone, enough to bind the cylinder. That one became a wall-hanger and taught me a most valuable lesson--check each charge with a good light, which you stressed very well.

Here's another example of a problem caused by ammo (and a loose nut on the trigger). You can shoot a .270 Win in a 7mm Rem Mag rifle. No damage to either the rifle or shooter either. Lesson learned here--only one gun, one ammo on the shooting bench at a time.

I have a piece of 270 brass that on looks just like that....