Safety Oriented Loading Procedure
I thought I’d share what I do in my loading procedure to help negate or effectively mitigate the “ human error “ out of the equation for the safety factor.
I normally shoot 3 shot groups when load testing, whether it’s new bullets or new powder or diff charge weights.
I set my 3 tubes in front of me, all caps facing away from me.
I set my 3 wads then 3 bullets then 3 primer modules all in rows in the order they get loaded.
I put my load thru funnel in my brake, take the tube farthest right, dump it, put tube back with cap facing me. Load, then place funnel next to powder tubes ( so I never forget to remove it & put a round thru it – again ) lastly, the old module comes out & the new one goes in & flip safety to on position, set gun in place in my rest, or on the bags.
That’s it. This way no matter if I get distracted with someone there with me? Or my focus just isn’t where it needs to be, I simply just need to look at my load set up in front of me & know 100% where I stopped in my loading procedure. I don’t need to think about it, I don’t need to drop my ramrod down my barrel, nothing.
Notice the difference in how the powder tubes are in pic 2 & see how many bullets, wads, & modules are there.
This gives me the peace of mind knowing I’m safe from screwing up & possibly causing a catastrophic event due to unnecessary mistakes or lapses in attention.
I thought I’d share what I do in my loading procedure to help negate or effectively mitigate the “ human error “ out of the equation for the safety factor.
I normally shoot 3 shot groups when load testing, whether it’s new bullets or new powder or diff charge weights.
I set my 3 tubes in front of me, all caps facing away from me.
I set my 3 wads then 3 bullets then 3 primer modules all in rows in the order they get loaded.
I put my load thru funnel in my brake, take the tube farthest right, dump it, put tube back with cap facing me. Load, then place funnel next to powder tubes ( so I never forget to remove it & put a round thru it – again ) lastly, the old module comes out & the new one goes in & flip safety to on position, set gun in place in my rest, or on the bags.
That’s it. This way no matter if I get distracted with someone there with me? Or my focus just isn’t where it needs to be, I simply just need to look at my load set up in front of me & know 100% where I stopped in my loading procedure. I don’t need to think about it, I don’t need to drop my ramrod down my barrel, nothing.
Notice the difference in how the powder tubes are in pic 2 & see how many bullets, wads, & modules are there.
This gives me the peace of mind knowing I’m safe from screwing up & possibly causing a catastrophic event due to unnecessary mistakes or lapses in attention.
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