Just in case anybody out there mistakenly thinks about making a super-hot BP load by using nitro propellant instead........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmsBF6CXs18
Props to CVA for making this video.
tac
Just in case anybody out there mistakenly thinks about making a super-hot BP load by using nitro propellant instead........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmsBF6CXs18
Props to CVA for making this video.
tac
Thanks for reminder!!!.A good Safety Video Well explained and demonstrated
Best Regards Frank
Ex Royal Navy Retired have fun while it lasts."I Do"
B.S.A.R Member
I hasten to add that these are modern in-line style rifles of a kind that is passing rare here in UK, but the main point here is not to mix up propellant - EVER.
Many moons ago I was first 'around the corner' on a range enclosure where a young man had overloaded his dad's Colt Model of 1917 - a .38Spec - with what turned out to have been a compressed load of 26gr of Bullseye under a 158gr lead bullet.
The resultant kaboom blew the cylinder into splinters, one of which killed his cousin standing bedside him.
tac
I've just filled a 357mag case to the brim with bullseye and struggled to get 17grains into it. It would take some compression to get much more in!
[I]DesG
Domani e troppo tardi
A total beginner using a setup for loading .30-30 who then knew enough to switch powder......but did not change the auto-charger setting - or so we were told. The person was a US serviceman visiting his dad, a DoD employee. He had never reloaded ANYTHING before that morning.
The four surviving cartridges contained the highly compressed loads, and yes, it was the second shot that blew the poor old gun up.
tac
Can someone explain the science behind why the smokeless powder produces such violent results?
Is is because it burns up so fast the bullet doesn't have time to get out of the barrel, where as standard powder has a slower burn rate and therefore gives the bullet a chance to get out of the way?