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4/3/2014 9:11:37 PM EDT
Today, my powder measure started having trouble getting the powder out.  On the next throw, nothing came out.  Next throw, nothing.  Nothing.  I started to unscrew the drop tube, and all of the backed-up powder came out.  I looked in the drop tube, and found nine little granules of powder, quite improbably arranged:



I guess I should have bought a lottery ticket today instead of powder and bullets!
4/3/2014 9:25:34 PM EDT
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BUY POWERBALL TICKETS. NOW!
4/3/2014 9:48:34 PM EDT
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BUY POWERBALL TICKETS. NOW!
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Or never again, I'm not sure which
4/3/2014 10:05:11 PM EDT
[#3]
<removed>Stay on topic please, this is not GD. dryflash3
4/4/2014 1:09:52 AM EDT
[#4]
Ha! So if you polish .00002" out of the tube ...it should never happen again?????
4/4/2014 5:16:43 AM EDT
[#5]
I know the improbability is high- but several years ago I had almost the exact thing happen. I was throwing either 4350 or 4831 and it quit throwing (just like your experience). I was baffled. Then I looked and sure enough, saw a cross of linked powder kernels.


I tried the lottery- nada

Weird stuff happens
4/4/2014 6:09:07 AM EDT
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Ha! So if you polish .00002" out of the tube ...it should never happen again?????
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Sure he doesn't need to polish out .00003"?





 




 
 
4/4/2014 6:14:31 AM EDT
[#7]
I think you're right, now, if it does it again...
4/4/2014 6:15:11 AM EDT
[#8]
Powder used ? Make, model of measure?  Thank you.
4/4/2014 6:32:09 AM EDT
[#9]
It's a Uniflow and N540.  But, that's a pretty small drop tube.  It's the .17 caliber tube, drilled out slightly to better flow into a .204 case.
4/4/2014 6:33:20 AM EDT
[#10]
That's kinda cool though
4/4/2014 6:59:48 AM EDT
[#11]

You just created the Matrix.


GREAT.
4/4/2014 9:19:59 AM EDT
[#12]
Welcome to my world.  
4/4/2014 9:25:19 AM EDT
[#13]
Thus the term "bridging"
4/4/2014 11:04:36 AM EDT
[#14]
That's crazy, and should be impossible, but once in a great while...
4/4/2014 11:52:44 AM EDT
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4/4/2014 3:13:19 PM EDT
[#16]
A 4 leaf clover!
4/4/2014 5:55:17 PM EDT
[#17]
Truth is stranger than fiction.  Every time.

4/6/2014 7:20:11 PM EDT
[#18]
You made a "powdercule"! I'd be dashing to the local casino if that happened to me.
4/6/2014 8:03:07 PM EDT
[#19]
It was crazy, indeed.  Thanks to all who chimed in the thread.  
4/7/2014 12:14:56 AM EDT
[#20]
Shouldn't happen if you are "tap, tap, tapping" on downstroke and upstroke on the measure.
Mighty small drop tube.

Nine kernels of powder that just happen to line up and apply tension just right--couldn't do that by hand, I'll bet.
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