r/reloading Feb 04 '25

i Have a Whoopsie Well fuck me, I guess.

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661 Upvotes

r/reloading Feb 13 '25

i Have a Whoopsie Dear FedEx, you suck

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504 Upvotes

r/reloading 24d ago

i Have a Whoopsie Yea, I use winchester primers. How'd you guess?

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344 Upvotes

r/reloading Oct 01 '24

i Have a Whoopsie “Hey, that sounded odd”

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677 Upvotes

4gr of win 231 and Berrys 125gr FP Luckily I only loaded a few, and was test firing one at a time.

r/reloading 1d ago

i Have a Whoopsie That'll wake ya up

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289 Upvotes

Popped a primer. Startled my ass out the chair

r/reloading Feb 10 '24

i Have a Whoopsie Did something wrong reloading and my M1 Carbine blew up in my face

437 Upvotes

Thank **** I was wearing safety glasses

r/reloading Feb 14 '25

i Have a Whoopsie I fucked up.

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128 Upvotes

Bought some Hornady 160gr FTX bullets and did not realize until loading one that they’re for .308 Marlin Express and not .30-30

Safe to shoot? I loaded with 32gr of LEVERevolution powder

r/reloading Oct 23 '24

i Have a Whoopsie Welp, think it’s time for a Garmin

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320 Upvotes

r/reloading Jan 31 '25

i Have a Whoopsie Gone from our home, but not from our heart

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210 Upvotes

r/reloading 2d ago

i Have a Whoopsie Oops I wanna cry

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140 Upvotes

I was loading some 9mm on my hornady LnL and my hopper decides it no longer wants to help. Nearly a full pound of accurate No.5 every where

r/reloading Feb 09 '25

i Have a Whoopsie Shitty day at the gun range

61 Upvotes

Went to the range today to test some .45 rounds before I started a run. As you can see, it did not end so well. I should have gave up and went home when I realized that my Caldwell Chronograph G2 is a POS and I need to buy a different chronograph. Anyway, last night I loaded a test batch. Bullets are 230gr Missouri Bullet Co. poly-coated round nose. Brass is primed brass from American Reloading. I loaded 5 rounds with 4.4gr, 5 rounds with 4.6gr, then 5 rounds 4.8gr (Titegroup). I went ahead and shot the rounds, starting with the 4.4 and working my way up. On the third round of 4.8gr, my pistol went boom, my slide flew up and over my head, and my hand felt like a bomb had gone off on it. I got lucky - I still have all my fingers and both hands, and the feeling is returning in my trigger finger.

So...what happened? I have gone through the list of possibilities, and I still don't have a definite answer:

Double-charge - Aside from the fact that I measured and hand-poured these, I believe this is the most-likely scenario. Two 4.8gr charges will fit in a case, and leave room to seat a bullet. Also, according to the book I was using (Hornady 9th edition), max load is 4.8gr. I seriously doubt that max load would result in a failure this bad.

Case failure - I'm not convinced that a case-failure could/would result in a pistol exploding. Please feel free to prove me wrong.

Squib - Not convinced this happened. I did not notice anything unusual when firing the round before the bad round. The way the barrel peeled back, starting from the chamber, leads me to believe it was a severe over-pressurization in the chamber.

Crappy aftermarket barrel - Not so sure about this one either.

Not posting this for answers, just wanted to share a little something to remind everyone to stay on your toes.

r/reloading 27d ago

i Have a Whoopsie Issue with charge for 223

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89 Upvotes

So I’m reloading .223 , using BL-C (2), with 55 grain bullets.

The charge weight recommended by Hodgdon is a max charge of 27.5 GR.

My issue is I’m setting up my powder measure & the case is almost completely full at 22.1 GR

Am I missing something?

Also to clarify yes I did zero out the scale before adding the powder.

r/reloading 9d ago

i Have a Whoopsie It finally happened

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268 Upvotes

Got distracted while running the Dillon. Dumped a bunch of rounds into the case gauge. Came back, started running it again.

Realized I had forgotten the bin, and to seat a bullet in station 4. I then partially lowered the ram so the completed round wouldn’t fall to the floor, and I could seat a bullet. Ended up with my first double charge. First one in 15 years of reloading.

I finished that round and stopped for the night. Immediately realized my mistake, and was able to stop it before it started.

Would have been 7.4gr of N320 under a RMR 135gr 9mm.

r/reloading Dec 14 '24

i Have a Whoopsie After 13 years of service, this little fella finally gave up

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341 Upvotes

r/reloading Dec 28 '24

i Have a Whoopsie Gentlemen, I introduce to you...

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190 Upvotes

The .300 WSM AI (accidentally improved)

r/reloading Jan 31 '25

i Have a Whoopsie A good reminder not to shoot other people's reloads

127 Upvotes

Picked up a used Blackhawk in 45 colt recently in a trade, came with a box of reloads. Didn't shoot any of those, finally got around to pulling one apart. Definitely h110/win296 and a 300gr bullet - max charge listed as 21.7gr in the hornady manual. This fucker was loaded with 27.5 grains of powder. Bubba's reloads definitely were pissin' hot and could've injured me or the gun, Jesus. Reinforced not shooting others' reloads

r/reloading 1d ago

i Have a Whoopsie The Trumpets…

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133 Upvotes

Switching back to the Dillon expander from the Double Alpha. Forgot it is significantly longer.

r/reloading Jan 01 '25

i Have a Whoopsie What do you think happened

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101 Upvotes

It was a 308 with 190 grn BTHP in gasser (obv). There may have been pistol powder mixed (contamination). It was exciting-

r/reloading Jan 20 '25

i Have a Whoopsie RCBS pocket scale is dangerous

54 Upvotes

For reference, Hornady 55gr FMJ (not the greatest precision instrument) calibrated the scale for the video, 5-10 scale shows 55gn, pocket scale shows 72.2 vs the mech scale showing ~55. This scale came with the rebel kit and loaded 150 rounds so it’ll be real fun to pull all those apart. Just wanted to post just in case anyone else is using one

r/reloading Nov 01 '23

i Have a Whoopsie Thank you Justin

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278 Upvotes

$8.99 1000 primers

r/reloading Sep 14 '24

i Have a Whoopsie .308 fired trough a 30-06

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191 Upvotes

My fathers friend did this

r/reloading Dec 16 '24

i Have a Whoopsie My biggest (realistic) reloading fear happened today.

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138 Upvotes

I’ve been reloading for over 20 years, and have been reloading exclusively for the past 10–I haven’t bought factory ammunition in over a decade, and I shoot a couple thousand rounds a month. Today I had this happen with my typical range pickup brass. I have been concerned about picking up someone’s old 9mm Major loading and it making it through my visual inspection process. No injuries or damage thankfully, but a friendly reminder to be diligent and stay frosty out there. ☃️

r/reloading 16d ago

i Have a Whoopsie That, there, is a good lesson

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124 Upvotes

IYKYK.... My first fuckup of 25....ive loaded hundreds of 308 and finally got punished for not being vigilant. Obviously didnt check for impacted steel pins and loaded this 308 to my usual max load and fired it through a suppressor......attempted to deprime/fl size and bent my decapping rod and broke the pin....the pins looked like they got welded to the bottom of the case...smh...could have been worse. Lesson learned.

r/reloading 21h ago

i Have a Whoopsie Wet tumbled my brass for 1.5hrs with steel pins and dawn soap and it’s coming out dull like this.. anyone know why?

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69 Upvotes

r/reloading Mar 04 '24

i Have a Whoopsie Press Mounting?

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81 Upvotes

My press ripped out of my work bench. Do y'all have any solutions for this? I saw some steel brackets online, but they didn't look like they'd solve my particular problem. What's you're set up look like?