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Anybody have a rifle malfunction that made them say what!
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<blockquote data-quote="Locknload" data-source="post: 1609210" data-attributes="member: 20333"><p>Old saying: There are only two types of people, those that have and those that will.</p><p></p><p>Spent the work day at the range preparing for a match the next day, discovered no ammo loaded upon arrival at the house. it is well after dark, I am tired and in a rush. I prep 100 pieces of 7tcu brass and reach up on the shelf, get the powder, run the powder throw, scale combo to throw 15grmof R#7 And start loading 168gr RCBS silhouette bullets for the XP 100. Get to range next morning, set up the range and go to the sight in line, first target, boom, target is still standing, smoke pouring out of the back of the bolt. The bolt handle is frozen in place, what was that....</p><p></p><p>At the time I did not have a floor mounted barrel vice so took the Sinclair built gun to my buddy's shop. We had to pull the barrel out, then turn the remainder of the case out of the bolt face, drill the ejector and spring out (they were welded together), and replace the extractor. Checked for out of spec expansion, all was good, so put her back together. I could not figure out what happened. But decided to pull all 99 rounds down, creating a small pile of powder after about 10 rounds. So sitting in my chair I just reached up and picked up the powder can and sat it on the bench in front of me, there it was, AA#7 not R#7. Checked shape and color, sure enough, I had switched them.</p><p></p><p>If you shoot cast and use Reloader #7 and reload small capacity pistol cartridges like the 9mm with AA #7 do not put the two powder cans on the same shelf and never ever next to each other. This may create the infamous #7 disaster. I was just very lucky that the 7tcu was a small capacity case in a stout Remington bolt action.</p><p>Ed</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Locknload, post: 1609210, member: 20333"] Old saying: There are only two types of people, those that have and those that will. Spent the work day at the range preparing for a match the next day, discovered no ammo loaded upon arrival at the house. it is well after dark, I am tired and in a rush. I prep 100 pieces of 7tcu brass and reach up on the shelf, get the powder, run the powder throw, scale combo to throw 15grmof R#7 And start loading 168gr RCBS silhouette bullets for the XP 100. Get to range next morning, set up the range and go to the sight in line, first target, boom, target is still standing, smoke pouring out of the back of the bolt. The bolt handle is frozen in place, what was that.... At the time I did not have a floor mounted barrel vice so took the Sinclair built gun to my buddy’s shop. We had to pull the barrel out, then turn the remainder of the case out of the bolt face, drill the ejector and spring out (they were welded together), and replace the extractor. Checked for out of spec expansion, all was good, so put her back together. I could not figure out what happened. But decided to pull all 99 rounds down, creating a small pile of powder after about 10 rounds. So sitting in my chair I just reached up and picked up the powder can and sat it on the bench in front of me, there it was, AA#7 not R#7. Checked shape and color, sure enough, I had switched them. If you shoot cast and use Reloader #7 and reload small capacity pistol cartridges like the 9mm with AA #7 do not put the two powder cans on the same shelf and never ever next to each other. This may create the infamous #7 disaster. I was just very lucky that the 7tcu was a small capacity case in a stout Remington bolt action. Ed [/QUOTE]
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