Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
First .223 reloads - Sucess and Major FAIL
Oleshome:
brass are fine I believe..
Oleshome:
I am going to check with a second micrometer though. Bottom line is not enough powder lead to a squib. The next rounds I attempted to chamber pushed the bullet into the case. The primers were never impacted so no bang. Lesson learned. I won't be doing more progressively till the powder cop I ordered comes in. I'll just charge them and put'em into reloading blocks so I can visually check them.
Dan W:
So it may be safe to conclude that a squib, forced out by a primer only ( little or no powder) was stuck in the lands, just beyond the throat.
And that the subsequent failures to fire (thank God) were caused by said squib interfering with the full chambering of the following rounds and forced the bullets back into the case upon contact with the bullet lodged in the throat.
If we agree that that is an accurate description of the failure, I have just one question...
Where is the powder that should have been in that case? I would break down the remainder of the questionable lot and test the powder weights for possible double charge
Oleshome:
Fair question but no lot left. It was a batch of 10 only with the failure occurring on round 6. I ruined two rounds and I can't find the tenth. I think its rolling around in the cab of my truck from when we left Big Shots. The other batch I did - the second - was 20 and all fired with no issues whatsoever.
NENick:
I had a friend who did the exact same thing that you did.... I won't say who. He told me to tell you to send that barrel/upper/rifle back to the manufacturer and have them inspect it. My friend did that and they found the barrel to be bulged and a number of other issues.
It took me a better part of a year to get the thing back...err my friend, but it wasn't worth risking life/limb years down the road.
You got really lucky. The mag blew out of my rifle and the rear side of the casing burst. Pieces of brass lodged into the extractor/firing pin. I can't imagine why that didn't happen in your case.
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