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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.

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.

Woody

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.

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.

Everything but the Scotch !!!

This mourning another 150 .40 Cal. Creedmoor bullets cast, none dropped.
The bottle of Scotch is back in the bar until next time.

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.
Ken

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...

All the above is still better than adding a cold ingot to a batch of molten alloy

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 !

Jim

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.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends.
Protect each other and stay safe.
Roger

Missed the "i" key.

Or found the scotch bottle