colt45acp's comment strikes home. After not doing any reloading for a long time, my supply dwindled so I set up for a new batch. That should have been a sign for extra diligence and rigorous adherence to all safety principles. I missed an important step in my process. Before I begin seating slugs I remove from the bench any cases that I haven't charged with powder. I'm sure most of you can guess correctly what went wrong.
On my next trip to the range I had one round where the recoil felt unusually light. Guess who had a 200gr LSWC projectile stuck in the rifling. Thank God I didn't pull the trigger on the next round.
The root of the problem: I had been seating slugs into powder charged cases without removing the can of cases that had new primers but were not yet charged. I must have accidentally grabbed one of those empty cases and seated a slug in it. When that round was in the chamber the primer had enough force to push the slug into the rifling about 1 to 1 1/2 inches, where it stopped.
It caused an early end to my shooting that day and gave me a rather embarrassing lesson on the importance of always being careful when reloading. Thank God there was no injury, and my favorite Colt was not damaged. Safety First - - - may i never forget that lesson.
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