guzma393
Active Member
PSA, perform your powder throw checks often, particularly in case activated drum units. I caught my lee auto drum seizing up, resulting in no powder throws on the last few progressively loaded rounds.
Out of abundance of caution, I purged the batch into the defect bin to be pulled later.
In hindsight, I'm overdo in maintaining my powder dropper. I've loaded tens of thousands of rounds without even thinking it will fail. I guess this was the day, and I'm lucky to catch it on the bench rather on the field.
Today is not the day to reload for me. Going to have to service my lee auto drum or perhaps replace it with a better one if I catch any noticeable wear/failure points or perhaps outfit an audio sensor to alert a drop and disable upon reset.
To the reloaders brain trust, what measures do you take in maintaining your case activated powder throwers and what preventative measures do you take?
My current method is I check powder throws every 5-10 rounds, but the batch is pretty much ruined if even one spiked round is in the bin. I do batches of 100 because of this
Out of abundance of caution, I purged the batch into the defect bin to be pulled later.
In hindsight, I'm overdo in maintaining my powder dropper. I've loaded tens of thousands of rounds without even thinking it will fail. I guess this was the day, and I'm lucky to catch it on the bench rather on the field.
Today is not the day to reload for me. Going to have to service my lee auto drum or perhaps replace it with a better one if I catch any noticeable wear/failure points or perhaps outfit an audio sensor to alert a drop and disable upon reset.
To the reloaders brain trust, what measures do you take in maintaining your case activated powder throwers and what preventative measures do you take?
My current method is I check powder throws every 5-10 rounds, but the batch is pretty much ruined if even one spiked round is in the bin. I do batches of 100 because of this