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Can a load change its accuracy with time?
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<blockquote data-quote="Chadp82" data-source="post: 2177899" data-attributes="member: 114151"><p>This was an interesting post and curious to see what others add.</p><p></p><p>A couple of years ago I went to the range with reloads and my dad's old rifle. When he was alive, these were his hunting loads. I never shot his rifle much, but decided to take it along on the range trip just for the heck of it.</p><p></p><p>first shot, stuck bolt. I got it open and wondered what the heck. Decided I shouldn't send any more of these downrange.</p><p></p><p>I got home and pulled one apart. There was certainly some corrosion around the base of the bullet. I pulled another one, it actually acted as if it was pressurized and popped a little. I was using a collet puller. It too showed corrosion.</p><p></p><p>I then decided to pull them all and dispose of them due to finding this. I chalked it up to being old. I did pull a bullet on reloads I found dated the same for another cartridge and everything seemed fine.</p><p></p><p>not exactly sure why they behaved differently. Same powder and load date, but different bullet, but Dad's loads were 300 WM, and the comparison load was 30-06. Both with H4831 but the 300 WM loads had a Nosler partition and the 30-06 loads used a Hornady Interlock. Oh, and the load dates were around 2005 if I recall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chadp82, post: 2177899, member: 114151"] This was an interesting post and curious to see what others add. A couple of years ago I went to the range with reloads and my dad’s old rifle. When he was alive, these were his hunting loads. I never shot his rifle much, but decided to take it along on the range trip just for the heck of it. first shot, stuck bolt. I got it open and wondered what the heck. Decided I shouldn’t send any more of these downrange. I got home and pulled one apart. There was certainly some corrosion around the base of the bullet. I pulled another one, it actually acted as if it was pressurized and popped a little. I was using a collet puller. It too showed corrosion. I then decided to pull them all and dispose of them due to finding this. I chalked it up to being old. I did pull a bullet on reloads I found dated the same for another cartridge and everything seemed fine. not exactly sure why they behaved differently. Same powder and load date, but different bullet, but Dad’s loads were 300 WM, and the comparison load was 30-06. Both with H4831 but the 300 WM loads had a Nosler partition and the 30-06 loads used a Hornady Interlock. Oh, and the load dates were around 2005 if I recall. [/QUOTE]
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