Darren what size casings are those? Looks like 9mm to me or i am guessing .38?
BTW would you ever consider reloading .22 casings? Is it worth it?
They are 9mm, I'm planning to load for my .380's and .45's as well, just haven't saved up as many casings for either yet. I know a few folks that do reload their .22 casings, but mostly just because they can and enjoy reloading that much. I'm still buying .22's weekly at about $3 - $4 a box (of 50, limit 2 boxes a day). Seems like production of them is slowly catching up and they are becoming available more and more, just not sure we'll see the prices go back down to what they were a few years back.
Ryan, I've only had one primer ever go off on me and I admit I was doing something stupid at the time using a dental pick to remove a crushed one that didn't go in right, trying to salvage a casing...I got it out though. However I was living in my apartment at the time reloading in my garage at midnight. I'm sure it made the neighbors think there was a drug deal going bad downstairs from them.
Though I've got a progressive press, I tend to do my reloading in steps. Typically I'll clean old cases, then run them through the resizing/decapping die, hand resize if needed, clean again, then hand prime all of them, then do powder, bullet, and crimp in the last operation. I find breaking up the operations helps with isolate a igniting primer from being anywhere around powder since I empty and clean the press and workstation between loading.