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PacRATT
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After spending the mourning casting a 150 near perfect bullet I dropped the whole tray on the floor damaging 90% of them. “DAMN”. No point in crying over spilled bullet. I put them all back in the pot.
I just opened a bottle of Lagavulin scotch I had hidden in the bar. Life is good again. :lol:
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I only drop them one at a time.

Once I cast several hundred, lubed them, and stored them in hard plastic trays. Carried them for several thousand miles while on an extended trip around the West. When I attempted to load them while on the road, I found that I had turned them into Wentworth bullets. They had taken on a octagon shape. I was casting and loading on the 4th of July just a few days before the Nationals in Raton. Had to melt and recast.

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Oh,don't feel to bad. Oh dumb-bell here once made a whole can of Keith pistol bullets for my .44 mag and when I went to lube them they wallowed around in the lubing die. I went, "what the heck" then put a caliper on them and they turned out to be .410 diameter. The only .40 cal I ever owned was a .41 mag Ruger that got stolen so I still have a can of bullets I can't use some where around here I think as I just didn't have the heart to throw them back into the pot after all that work. :roll: :lol:
PacRATT
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Mdeland, I did the same. I cast 200 PJ 45 Creedmoor for upcoming match only to find when I went to size them I had cast with my .446 Creedmoor mold. At least they didn’t to waste.
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Everything but the Scotch !!!
PacRATT
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This mourning another 150 .40 Cal. Creedmoor bullets cast, none dropped.
The bottle of Scotch is back in the bar until next time. :D
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II cast 100, patched 100, brought them out and dropped 100, saved 3
went to the Glenfiddich 12 yr old.....
life is ok...

cast all over again.
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:lol: practice makes perfect.
On the bright side at least you were still at home and not at a match , to only find all your carefully crafted ammunition now laying in the dirt getting the exposed lube grooves filled with dust and gravel...
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All the above is still better than adding a cold ingot to a batch of molten alloy :? :D
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Have hit a 50 round block of powdered cases with my elbow (OOOPPS!), finding a few cases 1/2 full and others with more. Oh well, wasn't the first time on that either :roll: !

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It is the boneheaded mistakes and unfortunate accidents that give us so much to talk about after a match, that helps make BPCR shooting so much fun. Good Scotch brings out better stores.
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Missed the "i" key. :lol:
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Or found the scotch bottle :wink:
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