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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1602246" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>I do not usually come out hard against a post, however, <strong><u><em>"DO NOT be terrified about blowing up your rifle." </em></u></strong>is absolutely and totally incorrect ESPECIALLY for a person who has never had experience reloading!!!!!! Everything that I put in the reply, #41, <strong>("</strong><em><strong>I cannot stress enough that you really do need/have to have a good working knowlege about the relationship between</strong></em> <em><strong>"bullet weight & powder selection & charge-primer"</strong></em> (more bullet weigh-powder charge) before you even start to reload. If you do not know this relationship, you start reloading and over-charge a fast burning rifle powder<em><strong> you can/will raise the pressures of your load to an unsafe level where you can/will destroy your rifle and injure yourself or someone standing next to you quite easily</strong></em>.<strong>")</strong> is absolutely correct and spot on! I have been reloading for 57 years and I am still concerned about blowing up any firearm that I reload for. It is check, recheck and then recheck; one cannot ever be too careful when reloading. There's really a margin of error<u><em> that anyone</em></u> is capable of experiencing; using the wrong load/powder, squib loads, double-charge, too many things to list here! After 57 years of reloading, it doesn't make me an expert, only a person with a lot of experience who is still learning how to reload every day. The only thing that I will agree upon with your response here is<strong>, <em><u>"If" I agreed with what you have written in this response, we would both be incorrect!!"</u></em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1602246, member: 69192"] I do not usually come out hard against a post, however, [B][U][I]"DO NOT be terrified about blowing up your rifle." [/I][/U][/B]is absolutely and totally incorrect ESPECIALLY for a person who has never had experience reloading!!!!!! Everything that I put in the reply, #41, [B]("[/B][I][B]I cannot stress enough that you really do need/have to have a good working knowlege about the relationship between[/B][/I] [I][B]"bullet weight & powder selection & charge-primer"[/B][/I] (more bullet weigh-powder charge) before you even start to reload. If you do not know this relationship, you start reloading and over-charge a fast burning rifle powder[I][B] you can/will raise the pressures of your load to an unsafe level where you can/will destroy your rifle and injure yourself or someone standing next to you quite easily[/B][/I].[B]")[/B] is absolutely correct and spot on! I have been reloading for 57 years and I am still concerned about blowing up any firearm that I reload for. It is check, recheck and then recheck; one cannot ever be too careful when reloading. There's really a margin of error[U][I] that anyone[/I][/U] is capable of experiencing; using the wrong load/powder, squib loads, double-charge, too many things to list here! After 57 years of reloading, it doesn't make me an expert, only a person with a lot of experience who is still learning how to reload every day. The only thing that I will agree upon with your response here is[B], [I][U]"If" I agreed with what you have written in this response, we would both be incorrect!!"[/U][/I][/B] [/QUOTE]
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