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What blew up my gun?
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<blockquote data-quote="yorke-1" data-source="post: 1709622" data-attributes="member: 11960"><p>So the charge was up to or possibly a little over 37.0gr of Varget with a 55gr bullet? That's not enough to cause what's seen here. Hodgdon lists 36.5gr of Varget for a 55gr Speer SP. So a 55gr V-Max will be a little longer, I get that. For anyone with Quickload, run the numbers on a 55gr V-max and an over load of Varget and see what you get. I looked at predicted pressures for up to 39.0gr of Varget and came in under (barely) 80K psi.</p><p></p><p>I've never seen a Savage bolt head fail like that, and I've seen (and done) some VERY stupid things to Savage actions over the years. And what about the front baffle behind the bolt head, where's that? The action failed right where the bolt head failed. </p><p></p><p>I just don't think this is the result of a 75K psi load.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yorke-1, post: 1709622, member: 11960"] So the charge was up to or possibly a little over 37.0gr of Varget with a 55gr bullet? That's not enough to cause what's seen here. Hodgdon lists 36.5gr of Varget for a 55gr Speer SP. So a 55gr V-Max will be a little longer, I get that. For anyone with Quickload, run the numbers on a 55gr V-max and an over load of Varget and see what you get. I looked at predicted pressures for up to 39.0gr of Varget and came in under (barely) 80K psi. I've never seen a Savage bolt head fail like that, and I've seen (and done) some VERY stupid things to Savage actions over the years. And what about the front baffle behind the bolt head, where's that? The action failed right where the bolt head failed. I just don't think this is the result of a 75K psi load. [/QUOTE]
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