Thread: Miss fire and stuck projectile.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

at least you didnt harm yourself or the rifle.....
if you want to look at worst case from here...you pull em all...pour powder into garden and start again....or you keep powder and devide it up by weight and load them all back up...BUT as you suspect they may be tiny bit short...might be best to sort that issue.ALTHOUGH...ifyou managed to jam it in rifling...shouldnt the primer have been hard against bolt face???? unless the primer strike was what moved whole shebang forward to jam projectile????

Yea it highlights the importance of checking the barrel is clear after a missfire.
I think the primer strike moved the case forward more than the 10hou jump and stuck the projectile and also caused the light strike with the shoulder of the case not holding the primer back against the bolthead.