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Posted 08 June 2010 19:49 Hide Post
Just as we all suspected - unburnt powder in front of the firing line.

You'd have thought they'd have had better housekeeping than that. Roll Eyes

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Originally posted by butchloc:

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Posted 08 June 2010 19:49 Hide Post
Just as we all suspected - unburnt powder in front of the firing line.

You'd have thought they'd have had better housekeeping than that. Roll Eyes

smokeless powder does not explode

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Apparently a staff member was firing a rifle for accuracy,, when one shot started a fire. The fire spread to other parts of the facility and an explosion followed.

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Originally posted by craigster:

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Bend, Ore. June 8th, 2010 – Over 50 Nosler employees returned to work Monday to begin everything from cleaning machinery, salvaging raw materials and shipping finished inventory. They are doing the necessary groundwork of getting the company production back up to speed. The various investigations of “cause and origin” continue. The cause of the fire has not yet been identified.

Keeton King, Nosler’s long time construction contractor is on site and will spearhead the rebuilding process. Mr. King will be using local businesses and hiring local employees for the repair project.

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Bend. Ore.-June 3rd, 20I0- At approximately 2:00pm on June 2nd, Nosler Incorporated, experienced a fire of unknown origin in a portion of its manufacturing facility, which was followed by an explosion that damaged the SE corner of one of the Nosler buildings. The building fire alarm was timely activated and all Nosler employees made it out of the building safely and are all accounted for.

The cause of the fire and subsequent explosion are currently under investigation by the appropriate governmental agencies. Nosler will continue to work and cooperate with them in order to assess the damage and to get NosIer, Inc. back up and running.

A significant finished goods inventory was stored in a separate building and will enable Nosler to meet short term customer needs, Nosler's Chief Executive Officer, Bob Nosler, commented that "Our number one priority after our people and our premises is to repair the plant and to get our employees back to work as soon as possible."

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"No serious injuries were reported in the Wednesday fire and explosion."

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Cleanup at the plant is going very fast. We would like to thank Arlen Keeton of Keeton-King Construction of getting everything going so quick and doing such a thorough job. Also, shipping has been getting lots of orders out the last few days so if you're currently waiting for products they should be arriving very soon.

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Just as we all suspected - unburnt powder in front of the firing line.

You'd have thought they'd have had better housekeeping than that. Roll Eyes

Mike

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Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.



What I have learned on AR, since 2001:
1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken.
2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps.
3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges.
4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down.
5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine.
6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle.
7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions.
8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA.
9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not.
10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact.
11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores.
12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence.
13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances.