My Vision Was Spared !

[Recluse]

I just figured it would be a good reminder for people.

You're right. Doesn't matter how long any of us has been doing this, complacency is our worst enemy.

Reminders are always welcome and always appropriate.

VERY glad you weren't hurt.

[Cadillo]

Last week I was melting some range scrap. There were no live rounds in the batch as I had picked up and sorted each piece by hand, and it had been in the garage for about a month, so I doubt there was any water present. There were however a number of jacketed slugs in the batch.

I was melting it down in an old cast iron Dutch oven and thankfully had put the lid in place. About six minutes into the heating up, there was a loud pop and the lid blew nearly off the pot, rattling as it settled back down a bit cockeyed. No harm, no foul, but a lesson learned. In the future any melting of range scrap will be done under the cast iron lid.