Happy for a Winchester Model 21

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

One other possible factor: like most of my friends I use a "baffle" beneath the powder bottle to decrease the range of variability of the powder drops. Now, I don't know if it had anything to do with clumping of powder I left ~6 weeks in the press. You'll see in the last pic (looking down from the powder bottle) how there are two baffles that each block about 1/2 of the cross-section and cause the powder flow to reverse before getting to the powder bushing in the charge bar.

Those baffles are junk, I remember having a problem with light drops and threw the one I had away in the 1980's when I was loading for ATA shoots on a MEC 650.

[Curtis Jennings]

I have had trouble with the spring return of the charge bar on my progressive mecs. Usually it was a piece of shot that got sheared off and would stop the bar from going all the way back causing a lite charge of powder. But anyway, the baffle could not have caused the 1.5x charge because it is above the charge bar and bushing. The bridging would have to have been in the drop tube somehow.

[Double Lab]

Thanks for the heads up Frank. Glad you and the Winny came through it with no damage. I've been using that exact baffle with no problems yet and it sits atop one of the multi-charge bars which some people love to hate. I not sure what went wrong with your reload but I think dumping the powder after each session is wise. Could static electricity had anything to do with it?