So, I'm in!

[Dred]

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Yes. Picked right from Lee Manual at the Reloading shop. The same recipe is on the short list Lee provides with the die set.

I'm very confident that I produced rounds to spec (spent a semester in a machine shop ages ago). I believe my problem was accepting the counter guys assurance that he was providing me the Accurate #7 I selected from the spec sheets. [Chose it because I felt #7 recipes which consistently spec approx twice the mass would provide 1. visual ques of mischarge so obvious a blind caveman couldn't miss them, and, 2. Finer tunability using the logic that a .2 grain difference in charge is 2% of 10 grains but 4% of a 5 grain charge.]

What I didn't mention is that he also sent me home with 1k small rifle primers instead of the LPPs I requested. That cost me a 100 mile round trip across Houston to get rectified.

Everything I selected self service was correct - only the primers and powders had to be requested from behind the counter. I check my orders at drive-throughs staffed by 15yo's that have yet to develop a work ethic, but I'm still quite surprised an adult clerk at a shop which specializes in reloading equipment and supplies would make both of these errors in a single order. I'd have had big trouble if I'd loaded 11 grains of W231 behind the LSWCs on a salesman's advice that W231 was equivalent to Accurate #7 (the advice I got wasn't quite this dangerous, but it could have been).

I'm much more impressed by the cute lady that swapped my primers for the correct LPPs, but I will certainly be wary of "advice" from anyone with an unknown CV. FWIW, I bought the W231 from a shop 2 miles from the house. Next trip across town, I'll take the Reloader 7 powder back and give them a chance to make right. Thankfully, I don't need medical attention or a new pistol following this experience.

I live, so I learn.

[titanse05]

Rule #1 in reloading. Never take anyones word on anything and always doublecheck what components you are using.

[Sheepdog]

Or ask Dave!

[NAMVET72]

Rule #9.9999999 always buy more then One Reloading Manual...............