Thread: The Importance of Using the Right Data

Originally Posted by NRT

Talk who cares I want victims from bad reloading it's a crock of shit ,what sticky bolt or fucken jaw off doesn't happen urban myth .

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i suppose it depends on the firearm.
Mucko and Mickey Duck have both had catastrophic rifle failures from incorrect powder in one case and using a different projectile for the same load data in another 9at least that sounds like the most likely scenario from the online discussion he had with the likes of gundoc).
One was a bunch of powder and gases came out with an ultimately buggered rifle, the other was a complete action failure with the only thing any good left being the barrel. The completely destroyed rifle was an old BSA sporter P17 and had a bolt lug fail so not a modern rifle but obviously still strong enough to stop a bolt coming back.
If it was a modern action with the two small lugs at the front, it may've been a different story. May not have failed and done what happened to MD with a 70's winny M70.
Both had safety glasses on and by the sounds of it Mucko was especially lucky with quite a bit of hot material hitting his face