Thread: Guns blown, persons damaged- powder misadventures- examples

given powder in big container and told what it was....fella who gave it to me was my reloading mentor and used to buy 3-4 tins of same batch and put it in bigger container....
got it home and picked a middle of road load for a rifle that normally handled hot loads well...long throat and a loose barrel meant lower pressure than something tight.
at the shot,loud as hell,face full of grit and bolt siezed.
got it home and used rubber mallet to turn bolt then hammered old cleaning rod down barrrel to back out bolt....wee ejector had departed the lug and the case is still welded into bolt face wit ha lovely wee belt on it like a weatherby magnum.
rifle was toast...shooter shook up but otherwise fine...didnt do the flinch much good!!!!
powder can not have been what was told..no way in hell an over charge would fit in case and when the remaining five rounds were pulled the weights were spot on....having loaded all six on scales I knew they would be.