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Reading pressure. Great article about it
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<blockquote data-quote="crkckr" data-source="post: 1611349" data-attributes="member: 78056"><p>I will relate a story that happened at Angeles National Forest range in CA near to life time ago (it seems, anyway!). About 4 tables from me a guy suddenly jumped up and was dancing around holding his hand. They hustled him off to the office and a few minutes later an ambulance picked him up and off they went to the hospital. The rangemaster came out and said the guy had blown his thumb off at the middle joint and would we form a line and walk down range to see if we could find it... maybe they could sew it back on. We didn't find anything, it was probably vaporized when the barrel split and let all the gas out right under his thumb. After things had settled down a bit I went and talked to his partner and looked at the rifle. It was an old mil-surp Mauser that had been sporterized. But next to the rifle were a dozen or more pieces of brass with every classic pressure sign you can think of - split necks, cratered primers, and there was even a block of wood he'd been using to bash the bolt open! The barrel had a split about 2" long, just below the wood and about 6" from the receiver (it was a stepped barrel and it split just where the diameter was the same for the remainder of it's length). Looking at the brass, I asked his buddy (who had a similar rifle) why in the world he continued shooting the thing with all these obvious pressure signs. "Well, it was shooting so good and the ammo was ok in my rifle..." </p><p>So, there were, way back when, 2 different barrel diameters for the 8mm... .318 and .323. The old, old barrels were .318. He was shooting relatively modern .323 mil-surp ammo thru it. I just shook my head a went back to my bench. I did look thru my spotting scope at his targets and he had a 6" or so group! I looked back at my own target where I had 4 groups under .5" and could only shake my head!</p><p>So in that respect, the artical is right, everyone needs to be able to read pressure signs, even if you don't reload. </p><p>Cheers,</p><p>crkckr</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crkckr, post: 1611349, member: 78056"] I will relate a story that happened at Angeles National Forest range in CA near to life time ago (it seems, anyway!). About 4 tables from me a guy suddenly jumped up and was dancing around holding his hand. They hustled him off to the office and a few minutes later an ambulance picked him up and off they went to the hospital. The rangemaster came out and said the guy had blown his thumb off at the middle joint and would we form a line and walk down range to see if we could find it... maybe they could sew it back on. We didn't find anything, it was probably vaporized when the barrel split and let all the gas out right under his thumb. After things had settled down a bit I went and talked to his partner and looked at the rifle. It was an old mil-surp Mauser that had been sporterized. But next to the rifle were a dozen or more pieces of brass with every classic pressure sign you can think of - split necks, cratered primers, and there was even a block of wood he'd been using to bash the bolt open! The barrel had a split about 2" long, just below the wood and about 6" from the receiver (it was a stepped barrel and it split just where the diameter was the same for the remainder of it's length). Looking at the brass, I asked his buddy (who had a similar rifle) why in the world he continued shooting the thing with all these obvious pressure signs. "Well, it was shooting so good and the ammo was ok in my rifle..." So, there were, way back when, 2 different barrel diameters for the 8mm... .318 and .323. The old, old barrels were .318. He was shooting relatively modern .323 mil-surp ammo thru it. I just shook my head a went back to my bench. I did look thru my spotting scope at his targets and he had a 6" or so group! I looked back at my own target where I had 4 groups under .5" and could only shake my head! So in that respect, the artical is right, everyone needs to be able to read pressure signs, even if you don't reload. Cheers, crkckr [/QUOTE]
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