This seems like a good place to write this. A while back I wrote about witnessing a guy nearly blow up his 243 at the range. Thought at the time it was due to adding a magnum primer to an already too hot load receipe.

Just to close the loop on this story, I saw him again some weeks later, having problems popping primers (again) with that same 243.

In passing the time with him during a cease fire period (actually it was a grass fire started by a suspected FMJ skipping off the ground, fire dept responded, etc) , I asked what he used to trim his case neck to size after FL sizing.

He said "what do you mean trim? I just run a chamfer tool around the mouth".

I measured a couple of cases he'd reloaded and found them .020+ over max length.

I advise him on the dangers of pinching a bullet and suggested he throw away his brass and get new off the shelf ammo, then learn a bit more about what he is doing before attempting to hand load anymore ammo. And if i ever saw him there again, I'd make dang sure I was nowhere near him while he was shooting.

Haven't seen him since….which is fine by me.