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Pop Watts
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I Should Have Known Better

Post by Pop Watts »

Don't shoot old bullets someone else has reloaded ! :oops:

Total case head seperation on a 218 Bee put a dampner on my afternoon at the range.

I had pulled a couple of these bullets and the load weighed OK, maybe it was a bad case, maybe it was overloaded??

I am going to pull the rest of them, that's for sure.

Pop.



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Yup, other peoples reloads are like a box of chocolates!
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game keeper wrote:Yup, other peoples reloads are like a box of chocolates!
+1
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hope that was the worse of the damage. Good lesson for all to consider.
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Probably not bad handloads, but more like a bad handloader who never inspected the inside of empty cases and just kept reloading them, thinking they'd last forever.

I'm glad neither you nor your rifle were damaged.

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Pete44ru wrote:I'm glad neither you nor your rifle were damaged.
A big +1 there.
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Glad you came out OK Pop Watts! It is a good learning lesson for us all.
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My # 1 rule. Ever since a friend lent a new shooter his $8K Purdy an' got it back in 4 pieces. My friend was pretty philosophical about it: "I didn't have to loan him THAT shotgun." And to the fellar's credit he got it fixed. I don't have any qualms about lettin' others shoot my guns, but my ammo'll get used in 'em! :twisted:

Pop, glad you, or less impotantly, the gun didn't get hurt! Image
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Yikes!...Glad your & your rifle are OK...Sorry for your misfortune.. I'm curious what brand of brass that is, as I've seen CIL/Dominion brass do the same thing ... That case looks like a balloon head or at least a semi balloon head case and that's what I've seen fail with the CIL/Dominion brass... It happened to me...The head cracked off sizing a LUBED case! Brittle!!!...If that's CIL/Dominion brass you've got there, you may want to acquire some other brand..
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Bad news! Glad you ok and glad you got the case out! Sometimes that can be difficult!

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C. Cash wrote:Glad you came out OK Pop Watts! It is a good learning lesson for us all.

yup :wink:
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I had sort of the same experiecne once...I had a .270 and a friend offerred that he knew all about reloading the .270 (I wasnt into reloading then) and he loaded some up and we went to range, and boom - case head speration, gas blew past my face. He siad, "Ah, must be old brass. Dont worry about it. " Like a fool I fired another shot. Boom! Case heads seperated again. Gas in my face.
Turned out that he had some old mixed brass a friend had given him, probably reloaded to hell already, and then loaded them with a made up over max load of Varget because it was the only powder he had and he said - "I had to load them up like that otherwise you wouldnt get 3100 fps, which is what a .270 should do..."
I have never fired a reload made by another person since, and never will. Took me a while to get over a flinch from that experience.
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