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09 April 2009, 16:52

Gatogordo

Stupidity or carelessness, call it what you will, has costs.

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09 April 2009, 18:19

Grizzly Albert

Sounds like he forgot to put the powder in. The primer had just enough force to drive the bullrt into the rifleing. We all know what happened next.

Always look into a block of of cases to make sure they've been charged before seating bullets.

Guess how I know so much about this.

09 April 2009, 19:55

Allan DeGroot

what's actually very likely is a no propellant load followed by a double charge.

I don't do "reduced loads" for ANY centerfire cartridge
If I wanted my 30-06 to behave like a 300SAV I'd put it back in it's case and go buy a 300SAV

I have no need to make my bolt 223 work like a 22Mag either.

Or my 7mmMag work like a 7x57

I CERTAINLY don't need to make a 45-70 into a 45LC

Et cetera, Ad Nauseam

My personal charging proceedure is to use a
powder measure to throw a "rough charge"
in all the cases then visually check them all.

THEN dump each, one at a time, into a scale pan
and trickle the last bit in and immediatly seat a bullet on it.

I have manually weighed every centerfire rifle propellant charge I've ever loaded, every single damned one of them.

It's also why I like RL22 in my 30-06 behind 165's
It simply isn't possible to get too much in.

Infact it's usually hard work to get ALL of the "proper" charge in....

BTW, the comments about the 45-70 being particularly weak?

Look close at an identical rifle in 450marlin sometime....

BTW, you only need to get a "little bit stupid" to seriously hurt yourself whan working with "energetic materials"

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