assasinator
Well-Known Member
wow. i have had ONE serious overpressure instance in 37 years. wasnt bad enough to pop my gun, but i had to beat the brass out.Your answer to this is do not use a standard primer with ball powder. I have mentioned this several times, with my wildcats on 416 Rigby Improved cases, I was using US869 with loads above 120g and WLRM or FED215 and found using H50BMG I could safely use WLR primers with a nicer pressure curve. So I tried it with US869 and had under-ignition, extremely dirty burning and poor ES/SD. Switching back to WLRM primers solved the issue.
Your experience is a severe under-ignition event, likely dangerous if continued.
I saw this same thing working up loads in my 45-120, lucky it's a Ruger No.1, because any other action probably would have disintegrated all over the shooting bench when it double detonated on me, it was hangfire, then bang-kaboom, very scary!
Cheers.
be careful with our hobby. it may have been overconfidence on my part. we try things nobody else does. i know i do. i have no interest following the crowd.
doggone lets be careful folks please. we are literally playing with dynamite lol. and liking it. i really think this point he made is right. its no different than a overly light load in a big magnum. easy to get 80k psi.
-bill