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Half my handloads from last year splitting necks
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<blockquote data-quote="freddiej" data-source="post: 1705549" data-attributes="member: 26227"><p>I am going to have to agree with legionnaire. this is most likely a case of ammonia contact on the brass. urine could have done this as well. another reason is if the brass was over 50 years old. but you said the brass was new and once fired. that rules that out. I had a bad batch of R-P brass more than once and Privi-Partizan brass. They used, evidently by mistake, an ammonia based polishing agent. this made the brass useless after the first firing. for more than a few reasons I do not use Privi or R-P brass anymore. mainly very poor performance and case to case weights varied so badly they could not be trusted not to blow primers on certain loads. </p><p>you stated that the brass in question looked weathered as it was in your backpack or in a coat pocket and got wet... and the temps were swung from 32 F to 120 F.. umm, my suggestion is do not do that again. get a water proof ammo carrier ( I think it's called an Ammo Vault) from MTM. the primers will disintegrate and be worthless. I used to be a guide up in Montana in the late 90's and early 2000's. My boss, Ron, would always leave his ammo on the dashboard of the truck and it nearly killed him once. the hot to cold rapidly and back up to hot again rapidly breaks down the powder and the primer. some primers do not do this.. however the powder, all powders degrade with this hot and cold rapid swing cycle. just imagine if H-4320 turned into something akin to H-110 or H-Clays? big over pressure problem. well, it so happened Ron and I were on a scouting trip and we saw an injured Elk, we had to put it down to be humane. he took the shot and his gun came apart in his hand. BTW Y'all this was factory 338 Win Mag ammo. After saying a prayer for his rifle, and thanking God Ron was uninjured; I took the Elk with my 338 W/M with home brew loads. He called the MFR of the rifle and had it replaced. He never allowed his ammo to sit in the sun ever again. they never were on the dashboard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="freddiej, post: 1705549, member: 26227"] I am going to have to agree with legionnaire. this is most likely a case of ammonia contact on the brass. urine could have done this as well. another reason is if the brass was over 50 years old. but you said the brass was new and once fired. that rules that out. I had a bad batch of R-P brass more than once and Privi-Partizan brass. They used, evidently by mistake, an ammonia based polishing agent. this made the brass useless after the first firing. for more than a few reasons I do not use Privi or R-P brass anymore. mainly very poor performance and case to case weights varied so badly they could not be trusted not to blow primers on certain loads. you stated that the brass in question looked weathered as it was in your backpack or in a coat pocket and got wet... and the temps were swung from 32 F to 120 F.. umm, my suggestion is do not do that again. get a water proof ammo carrier ( I think it's called an Ammo Vault) from MTM. the primers will disintegrate and be worthless. I used to be a guide up in Montana in the late 90's and early 2000's. My boss, Ron, would always leave his ammo on the dashboard of the truck and it nearly killed him once. the hot to cold rapidly and back up to hot again rapidly breaks down the powder and the primer. some primers do not do this.. however the powder, all powders degrade with this hot and cold rapid swing cycle. just imagine if H-4320 turned into something akin to H-110 or H-Clays? big over pressure problem. well, it so happened Ron and I were on a scouting trip and we saw an injured Elk, we had to put it down to be humane. he took the shot and his gun came apart in his hand. BTW Y'all this was factory 338 Win Mag ammo. After saying a prayer for his rifle, and thanking God Ron was uninjured; I took the Elk with my 338 W/M with home brew loads. He called the MFR of the rifle and had it replaced. He never allowed his ammo to sit in the sun ever again. they never were on the dashboard. [/QUOTE]
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