Thread: All good things come to an end.

Greetings all,
I went on one of my gentlemans hours week day wanders last week and actually took a rifle. It was my old Remington 700 308 bought new about 1977. Anyway I loaded the mag as I left the road end and had an enjoyable but uneventful wander. Back at the road end I popped the floorplate and into my hand rolled a projectile followed by this.

Thinking about it this rifle had not been to the bush since about 2011 when my Tikka 6.5 x 55 forced its way into the rifle cupboard. On the range I single load and this cartridge was loaded in late 2004. I may have been a little ham fisted loading an internal mag as well. Looking at my notes the case had been loaded 6 times an not annealled. It is quite possible, even likely that it came in one of the two boxes of CAC 180 grain cartridges tossed into the deal by the salesman in the late 70's. Less likely it may have been invloved in one of my meagre hunting successes. Anyway it is now an ex case. Not clear on the picture the crack goes hallf way around the case as well so it is well and truly munted.
The lesson to me is not to take antique cartridges hunting so some new ones need to be selected for the next trip.
Out of interest the load was a CAC case, Winchester W120 primer, 150 grain Norma semi pointed projectile and 46 grains of Dupont (yes Dupont) IMR4064. They chronographed around 2,800 fps from the then 560mm barrel. The case will remain in my interesting brass collection.
Regards Grandpamac.