by on_one_wheel » 14 Oct 2013, 8:50 pm
If not a accidental high load, How about a barell obstruction ? I once loaded up a heap of shells and noticed that at some point I had jared the table and bumped the course adjustment on my scale by one notch ( 10 g ) I wasnt sure how many shells had an extra 10 grains in them..... Went about weighing the loaded cartriges and assumed that I had over loaded 6. Next hunting trip after a few shots I lined up over the bonnet.... took a shot BOOM ! ..... Thought s**t, that had some punch, and the scope kissed my glasses..... bit savage for a .243 with 100g slugs, The next shot did th e same thing. Only sign of pressure was a slightly buldging primer ( looked slightly concaved ) Very lucky. Those extra hot rounds were loaded at 44 grains of 2208 with 100g seria soft point boat tails. So the moral of the story is......... overloads can hppen, I have since changed my loading sequence, by prepping all cases, priming all cases, filling all cases, then inserting the projectiles rather than doing one complete round at a time. Oh yeah and checking and checking and checking again ! ( Using the Lee hand loader, still use it, love the simple things in life )
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on_one_wheel on 14 Oct 2013, 9:25 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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