Archive for the 'Reloading' Category
There’s a post over at Accurate Shooter about overbore cartridges with an accompanying chart purporting to list cartridges in order of their “overboreness”. I commented:
Volume/area is a poor proxy for “overboreness”. I haven’t thought it through yet but since a .50 bmg is basically a scaled up ‘06 it should equal a 30?06 in [...]
The telltale signs of too much pressure. The example at Accurate Shooter is commercial Federal brand .308 hunting ammo.
With the relentless pursuit of more velocity and the “next higher node†by many reloaders, it is important to pause and think about safety. And one has to remember that most brass will not hold up [...]
Savage ‘Splosion
4 Comments Published by Ninth Stage December 5th, 2006 in Guns, Reloading, Shooting.Via Say Uncle.
A hunter’s Savage Rifle in .300 Remington Ultra Mag exploded during a hunt. Now he’s suing Savage Arms and the store where he purchased the rifle.
I find it interesting that he hasn’t sued the ammunition manufacturer. This leads me to believe that he was using handloads even though he claims otherwise. [...]
