At the range with a couple three of my Smiths (39, 908 and Model 59) shooting a combination of Remington factory loaded 115gr and my own 115gr and 124 gr. plateds over the appropriate amount of Titegroip.
Everything's going fine, I'm in the groove at 5, 10 and 15 yds., and having a nice afternoon when the M 59 stops chambering rounds. They'd ride up over the feed ramp and wouldn't seat, I racked the slide, tried another round and the same thing.
I check the chamber and the feed ramp is dirty. Not horridly so, but not sparkling bright. So, rather than fiddling with it on the line and not knowing what was wrong, I put it back in the range bag and moved back to the other two guns.
Home, I field strip and clean the ramp and then go to clean the bore. When I look up the barrel, I can't see daylight. I'm puzzled. Look down the barrel and there's a nice shiny plated bullet end just inside the chamber....stuck.
Couple of taps with a dowel and hammer and out pops a very nice, pristine looking 124 gr. Berry plated LRN bullet.
Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle.
Tragedy avoided as it was stuck far enough back so I couldn't chamber another round...but WTF?
I never heard a squib sound just a normal bang and recoil; the brass ejected; but the bullet clearly didn't come out the hole in the end of the gun. As I'd shot a bunch into the target I just figured I'd doubled up on some previous hits.
I can only assume that I somehow missed the right weight of Titegroup in that bullet, but I'm pretty careful...but I can come up with no other explanation.
Don't like to think what would have happened had the bullet jammed half-way up the barrel. If I was paranoid about my reloading before....I'll be off the charts next reloading session.
Everything's going fine, I'm in the groove at 5, 10 and 15 yds., and having a nice afternoon when the M 59 stops chambering rounds. They'd ride up over the feed ramp and wouldn't seat, I racked the slide, tried another round and the same thing.
I check the chamber and the feed ramp is dirty. Not horridly so, but not sparkling bright. So, rather than fiddling with it on the line and not knowing what was wrong, I put it back in the range bag and moved back to the other two guns.
Home, I field strip and clean the ramp and then go to clean the bore. When I look up the barrel, I can't see daylight. I'm puzzled. Look down the barrel and there's a nice shiny plated bullet end just inside the chamber....stuck.
Couple of taps with a dowel and hammer and out pops a very nice, pristine looking 124 gr. Berry plated LRN bullet.
Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle.
Tragedy avoided as it was stuck far enough back so I couldn't chamber another round...but WTF?
I never heard a squib sound just a normal bang and recoil; the brass ejected; but the bullet clearly didn't come out the hole in the end of the gun. As I'd shot a bunch into the target I just figured I'd doubled up on some previous hits.
I can only assume that I somehow missed the right weight of Titegroup in that bullet, but I'm pretty careful...but I can come up with no other explanation.
Don't like to think what would have happened had the bullet jammed half-way up the barrel. If I was paranoid about my reloading before....I'll be off the charts next reloading session.