Well, the oldrookie had a new experience today. After shooting about 20 loads, I was ready to call it a morning. I had shot all my xtps but I had 2 powerbelts left. Figured what the heck, I'll shoot them and call it quits.

Loaded the 1st one,zeroed in and pop....the primer went off but that was it. Made sure the bullet was still seated, put in new primer and pop, same thing. I decided to remove the breech plug cleaned it up, reinstalled. Made sure bullet was seated. I then installed a new primer....pop! After deciding this wasn't good (remember I am a rookie), I decided to remove the breech plug, dump the powder and shove the bullet out the end.

First, after removing the plug, all the powder was spent. When I went to shove the bullet out, it felt kind of light. The only thing to be shoved out was the plastic belt....there was no bullet. When those primers went off it felt and sounded like miss fires. No compression, boom nothing.

What just happened here?