Thread: The Importance of Using the Right Data

thats what they are SUPPOSED TO DO..... why Im grateful the makers of my model 70 built it so strong... the gases vented out through hole on left and down into mag well...I still wore a face full of grit.... the CASE HELD TOGETHER.... and I thank the good lord it did... swelled out so far the case head is permanently stuck in end of bolt...the web area...bit between barrel and bolt has raised out about 1mm and about 1mm long.....sort of looks like a mini belt on a magnum.... the lug which had the wee extractor in side of it swelled and broke around extractor claw... the lug itself looks to have expanded outwards SLIGHTLY.....
the really bad cases of bolt in face were often hangfires with dud ammo going off as bolt was opened .....bugger that for game of soldiers....
Ive read of two cases where a .308 has been fired through a .270......both shooters survived,one rifle poked the other was ok/salvagable.
about the safest round/powder combo Ive seen and reloaded is the wee 7.62x39mm case using AR 2206 powder....or trailboss...its nearly impossible to put too much in case.... BUT if you change out that powder to a fine ball powder you can do so easily.... and resulting loads could well put you in ambulance in bad way...