Eric Musgrove
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So I hit pressure early and had to pull some bullets with 6.5 StaBall powder, all of them were like this and basically had to dig the powder out with the wooden end of a swab, it reminded me of solid rocket fuel. I have never seen this before but never loaded compressed loads with ball powder. Not all of these should have been close to compressed according to Hodgdon data. Its probably hard to see in the pictures but the powder is even tight against the angle of the neck. The ones on the side the powder is not loose it has taken that shape. It took about 5 min per case to remove the powder. It seems ok now but I am considering tossing it in the grass. These were new cases and no lube was inside the case. Anyone deal with this before?