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What blew up my gun?
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<blockquote data-quote="sw282" data-source="post: 1709634" data-attributes="member: 93980"><p>normt-- l don't believe your load practices caused the kaboom. Nosler manuel says 35gr of Varget fills 88% of the case volume. Nosler says 36gr of Varget is MAX with a 55gr bullet. You were 1 grain under max with Nosler. Hornady says 34.7gr is Max for a 55gr VMAX. You were only 3/10 of a grain over using Hornady cases.. Hornady cases usually have the smallest case volume. Remington are usually the roomiest around... LYMAN manuel#50 says 37gr is max load for Varget using a 55gr VMAX bullet.. @35 you are 2 gr under max... Speer #14 says 35gr of Varget is starting load for a 55gr bullet using a Remington case.. Max is 37gr... Also max case length is 1.912''...None of your cases exceeded 1.912''... l don't know what blew up your gun... But l can say I'm pretty sure from the facts you presented here... IT WAS ''NOT'' YOUR AMMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sw282, post: 1709634, member: 93980"] normt-- l don't believe your load practices caused the kaboom. Nosler manuel says 35gr of Varget fills 88% of the case volume. Nosler says 36gr of Varget is MAX with a 55gr bullet. You were 1 grain under max with Nosler. Hornady says 34.7gr is Max for a 55gr VMAX. You were only 3/10 of a grain over using Hornady cases.. Hornady cases usually have the smallest case volume. Remington are usually the roomiest around... LYMAN manuel#50 says 37gr is max load for Varget using a 55gr VMAX bullet.. @35 you are 2 gr under max... Speer #14 says 35gr of Varget is starting load for a 55gr bullet using a Remington case.. Max is 37gr... Also max case length is 1.912''...None of your cases exceeded 1.912''... l don't know what blew up your gun... But l can say I'm pretty sure from the facts you presented here... IT WAS ''NOT'' YOUR AMMO. [/QUOTE]
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