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What really makes it a magnum?
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<blockquote data-quote="elkaholic" data-source="post: 680906" data-attributes="member: 13833"><p><strong>Re: Beyond the "belt"?</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I love it! (Magnum boots)<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />. I had a magnum chunk of tamarck firewood where I grew up in northern Mi. I decided to run some reduced loads in my nearly new 25-06 (early seventys) and loaded up a few grains of Red Dot behind a 75 grainer. Things were going very well the first three or four shots; low recoil, fairly good groups, etc. FUN!! The next shot was more of a hiss than a bang and I thought I actually had a misfire. I grabbed the bolt and nothing moved! I took it home and used a piece of cured tamarack to hammer the bolt open. When the bolt finally came out, the brass was fused into the bolt face and had to be pried out with a pair of vice grips. The brass was perfectly molded the shape of the boltface with a 1/4" pin shape which came out of the ejector pin hole (yikes)! Any estimates on what the chamber pressure was? I learned a few things that day on having a few grains of shotgun powder moving around in a large case! It does say something for the 700 action.I still have that old rifle now chambered in 6.5 Sherman and it still has a pitted bolt face.......Rich</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elkaholic, post: 680906, member: 13833"] [b]Re: Beyond the "belt"?[/b] I love it! (Magnum boots):D. I had a magnum chunk of tamarck firewood where I grew up in northern Mi. I decided to run some reduced loads in my nearly new 25-06 (early seventys) and loaded up a few grains of Red Dot behind a 75 grainer. Things were going very well the first three or four shots; low recoil, fairly good groups, etc. FUN!! The next shot was more of a hiss than a bang and I thought I actually had a misfire. I grabbed the bolt and nothing moved! I took it home and used a piece of cured tamarack to hammer the bolt open. When the bolt finally came out, the brass was fused into the bolt face and had to be pried out with a pair of vice grips. The brass was perfectly molded the shape of the boltface with a 1/4" pin shape which came out of the ejector pin hole (yikes)! Any estimates on what the chamber pressure was? I learned a few things that day on having a few grains of shotgun powder moving around in a large case! It does say something for the 700 action.I still have that old rifle now chambered in 6.5 Sherman and it still has a pitted bolt face.......Rich [/QUOTE]
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