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orionengnr wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 7:23 pm Ooops, just realized this thread is a year old.
Reloading forum must be really dead...

Hahaha.... I was just about to share a warning about watching TV while reloading. I have an RCBS Rock chucker single stage press. Bought it as a kit in 1981 with scales, powder hopper, calipers and scales. Darn thing still works like new. I was about a year into reloading and starting to move on auto pilot while watching TV, eating and what ever else I felt I needed to do. Long story short. Was reloading some 357 with blue dot. Switched everything over to reload some 44 mag with the old Elmer Keith preferred load. I got distracted and did not change the powder so I used heavy loads of blue dot. Unfortunately, I didn't realize my mistake until firing a couple rounds of 44 mag at the range. Darn near broke my wrists and actually caused the stirrup the cylinder rides on to warp out of shape. Couldn't fire a third round. I was told I was lucky I was firing them through a Ruger Redhawk stainless or it could have blown the darn thing up in my hands. 22 grains of blue dot makes a much bigger boom than 22 grains of 2400. I always concentrate on reloading when I am loading now. A lesson learned 38 years ago.