Jim Taylor
That'll teach me!
Saturday, May 18, 2019, 15:24

I was cleaning brass today and had run a batch of .357's through the cleaner and tumbler. As I was depriming them, on the down stroke of the loading press handle I felt "grit" and heard a POP!

Lifted the handle back up and found this:

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Looked at the depriming die and of course the decapping pin was broken off.

Then I looked into the cartridge and saw this:

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This was some of the brass I had picked up on the range. It had a nice little rock wedged in it! And no, I had not checked them.

~sigh~

I have plenty of spare parts and had it going again soon. But you know, I should have caught that.

 
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