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Reloading
How nonsense becomes fact.
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<blockquote data-quote="25WSM" data-source="post: 1904285" data-attributes="member: 38048"><p>Takes a bunch to destroy a modern firearm. A customer brought me a remmy 700 that was locked up so hard I couldn't even get the barrel loose. Sent it to Remington. They got it apart and said the load was in excess of 125000 psi. The case head had actually flowed into the extractor groove and broke the extractor. They checked it over and put in another extractor and said it was good to go. Customer is still shooting it to this day. He swears he only had one powder open. We will never know what he did wrong. But that rifle held twice the pressure we load to. So basically what I'm saying is that if you blow a gun up it wasn't because you went one grain too far. I personally don't care what kind of pressure my rounds have if my brass last 10 or more shots and my bolt lift is easy and my primer edges are well rounded and there is no ejector swipes I call it within the design limits of my rifle and brass.</p><p>As reloaders that's all we can do. And I consider bolt lift and primer appearance THE first signs of pressure. </p><p>Shep</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="25WSM, post: 1904285, member: 38048"] Takes a bunch to destroy a modern firearm. A customer brought me a remmy 700 that was locked up so hard I couldn't even get the barrel loose. Sent it to Remington. They got it apart and said the load was in excess of 125000 psi. The case head had actually flowed into the extractor groove and broke the extractor. They checked it over and put in another extractor and said it was good to go. Customer is still shooting it to this day. He swears he only had one powder open. We will never know what he did wrong. But that rifle held twice the pressure we load to. So basically what I'm saying is that if you blow a gun up it wasn't because you went one grain too far. I personally don't care what kind of pressure my rounds have if my brass last 10 or more shots and my bolt lift is easy and my primer edges are well rounded and there is no ejector swipes I call it within the design limits of my rifle and brass. As reloaders that's all we can do. And I consider bolt lift and primer appearance THE first signs of pressure. Shep [/QUOTE]
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