Thread: Pressure / barrel speeds?

Originally Posted by BRADS

Ok when your brass does this
This wasn't my loading....it came with a gun I brought.....
Guy said they where all sweet, he seemed two no his stuff,
the first few where all fine
I really spat the dummy bolt lift was REALLY hard. I was glad it was in a Sako, a lesser action the results may have been a very different......
Lesson.....never use loads your given
Let's use this as a worse case example

That definitely is a good one in the pressure department, I bought a Remington 788 in 243 a few years ago it came with some reloads from a well known ammo re-loader the shop told me who made the ammo all good with me but he never said fire at your own risk. First and second shot was sweet third shot big orange flash in my face with a big bang, bullet tumbles down range and smacks side on into target. Look at rifle smoke coming out of places it should not be coming out of along with the odor of burnt oil, go to open bolt hello it is jammed solid took it to feller who made ammo, the feller hammers bolt open, extracts case with case firmly implanted into bolt, hammers case out of bolt face primer drops on ground with a huge tit where it extruded into firing pin hole, primer pocket almost doubled in size and all case head stamping was just a bright shiny surface and all stampings gone, needless to say rifle was going to take a fair bit to fix.