Thread: Powder crackling when seating projectile

Thanks everyone for your replies.
especially @JohnDuxbury, that was plenty of info and quite interesting.

I normally run my reloads near the lower end of the spectrum and look for accuracy before velocity so this was the first time in about seven years of reloading that I have loaded compressed loads.
It was mainly because there wasn’t much span between high and low that I decided to load closer to the high end.

I was just dumping the powder in as per usual but I normally give the cases a rattle and check for uniform charge heights as a last precaution before projectile seating. I will try the trickle method mentioned.

I will check COAL later today but at a guess, especially as the projectile is a BT I think it has pushed into the powder more than compressed it, it certainly didn’t have any feeling of resistance in the final part of the press stroke.

Just the sound. Which once heard, couldn’t be unheard. However this thread has been quite reassuring.