Reloading question!

[browning10]

Had some bullets reloaded by someone that's really familiar with it. I supplied all components.
When I started shooting them it didn't sound right. It almost sounded like I could hear the hammer hitting then the bullet going off. It's a click then boom. What could it be? I shot 10 times and heard it 8. It shot an ok group.
264 mag
130 gr accubond
4831 imr
Large rifle primers by wolf

[Gunnyart]

What rifle?

[browning10]

Remington 700 cdl sf

[JEG8233]

By any chance you know how much powder was loaded? Have you inspected the fired brass after the "off" shots?

[Cajun Blake]

may be an ignition problem due to faulty primers ????

weigh ALL the loaded rds as they should be within a few grains of one another

[browning10]

Ok. Will do

[browning10]

Will it hurt to continue to shoot this ammo?

[Hunter_Man]

hmmmm... I've heard of that when you reload and there's moisture in the case when loading. basically if there's a drop of water at the bottom of a shell, and you put powder in, the first bit of powder gets saturated and cakes on the bottom. the primer fires and tries to ignite the wet powder, without success, until a bit of spark gets to the dry powder.

in my opinion, that is why it is not wise to fire reloads that are not loaded by your own hands. someone else's mistake could cost you your life or limb.

I knew a guy that bought reloads from a friend... said friend accidently double charged a round, which blew up his glock 27 in his hands. 17 stitches later he doesn't talk to said friend anymore.

[flyby]

It might hurt really bad, or worse. STOP shooting until you find what the problem is!!!

[TheGasMan]

Will it hurt to continue to shoot this ammo?

If you are concerned, I wouldn't shoot until you figure out the problem. If you have a squib and then send another down the pipe it could get ugly. Best case ruined gun, worst loss of life. Be careful, reloading can be tricky. Personally, I would pull all the bullets and start over.

[Hunter_Man]

oh, and I would NOT shoot any rounds you have to question... period.

[berettadave]

oh, and I would NOT shoot any rounds you have to question... period.

All may be fine....or not. No way to know without inspecting each one. I just wouldn't want to play Russian Roulette to find out.

[Okiehunter]

A lot more to "reloading" than stuff a case with powder and plugging it with a bullet. I would pull the bullets, throw away the powder, de-prime and start over.

You are kidding your self if you think you can pick a load recipe out of a book or on line and that load shoot well in your gun. I have spend hundreds of bullets down range before finding the "right" load for a specific gun. Does not sound like either you or your buddy understand enough about the process to play in the game.

Sorry to be so hard on you but hearing the intent of my message just may save your lots of heartburn down the road.

[LWolken]

It could be a hang fire but honestly I have never experienced one just read about it in reloading manuals. The combination includes mag over bore cartridges with regular large rifle primers. Many suggest magnum primers in such large cartridges but I have also read about tests that showed no difference between large rifle and magnum primers so I'm undecided there. I have used thousands of the wolf small rifle magnum primers in my 6mmbr but never their large rifle. I would not shoot anyone else's reloads. This is sound advice anything else is a risk I'm not willing to take.

[courtatlawjudge]

Listen to everybody on here that says don't shoot another round. No way to diagnose from here. Bad primers, bad powder, who knows. But there are a lot of people, including me, that have reloaded thousands of rounds without such an incident. Quit while you are ahead!