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What is the safety margin on powder charge?
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<blockquote data-quote="Barrelnut" data-source="post: 953104" data-attributes="member: 74902"><p>Depents....</p><p></p><p>Usually having significantly less powder in the cartridge is most dangerous. This can cause a secondary ignition effect and split that beautiful wood stock or something. Oddly enough, you can never overload some rounds with some powder types. You run out of space in the cartridge before you reach a point where too much powder can cause a problem.</p><p></p><p>You should always strive for +/- .1 grain. I ALWAYS load all my cartridges with powder before I seat bullets. Then after loading all of the cartridges with powder, I physically touch each one with my finger and look at the powder lever in it. If one looks over/under I address that before I start to load any bullets. One of the screwiest things you can do it is forget to put any powder in a cartridge and just have a primer and bullet. The primer has just enough power to force the bullet out of the cartridge and into the rifling. it is F*%#@D up after that!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Barrelnut, post: 953104, member: 74902"] Depents.... Usually having significantly less powder in the cartridge is most dangerous. This can cause a secondary ignition effect and split that beautiful wood stock or something. Oddly enough, you can never overload some rounds with some powder types. You run out of space in the cartridge before you reach a point where too much powder can cause a problem. You should always strive for +/- .1 grain. I ALWAYS load all my cartridges with powder before I seat bullets. Then after loading all of the cartridges with powder, I physically touch each one with my finger and look at the powder lever in it. If one looks over/under I address that before I start to load any bullets. One of the screwiest things you can do it is forget to put any powder in a cartridge and just have a primer and bullet. The primer has just enough power to force the bullet out of the cartridge and into the rifling. it is F*%#@D up after that! [/QUOTE]
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