Gary Reeder
That is hard to do .It's not unusual to get a
Monday, June 02, 2025, 16:14

batch of reloads when we buy out an estate. The last one we got must have had 5000 rounds of reloaded ammo including probably 500 rounds of new reloaded 45-70. Included was a lot of 45 ACP, and 40 S&W. The old guy labeled everything he reloaded with the load and all the other info needed. It hurt to do so but I pulled all of it. It seemed a shame to pull 45 ACP and 40 S&W but by the reloader's data he just wanted to try out some Bullseye and that stopped me from even trying one or two rounds. He mentioned target loads of Bullseye in both 45 and 40 and that was all it took. I hate Bullseye with a passion and won't even keep any of it in my house.
Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s I was still in radio at the radio station across the road from Ft. Campbell and shooting with a Lt friend on post. At that time the 38 Special was a super popular target round with the S&W model 14. Guys were loading 2 to 2.2 grains of bullseye and a 148 grain hollow base 38 special (don't try that as my memory may be a bit off). . I heard of 2 guys who were friends and wanted to get ahead of some of the others by lowering their recoil in the rapid fire event and lowered their load to 1.5. When they pulled the trigger one ruined a model 14, the other a Colt of some sort. The whole topstrap went one way and the rest of it went the other way.
Thru the years I have heard of this happening more than once. I have never seen it but people that know a lot more about reloading than me have told me of this happening.
To me the moral of the story is don't mess with Bullseye.