TexasSeaRay
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Last week a friend of mine from back in "the days" and I were shooting at one of our out-of-the way ranges and heard a major KAFREAKINGBOOM!
I wrote a bit about it on the "Help with crimping" thread.
Some guy, new to shooting and BRAND NEW to reloading blew up his gun and his hand loading "hot" 40 S&W rounds.
How hot?
The rangemaster's brother-in-law is an armorer for one of the big police departments around here and took a few of the rounds from the magazine that got blown out of the gun (Sig P229), pulled the bullets and measured the powder charges after confirming the powder and bullet make.
Here was this guy's loads:
Hornady XTP 180 gr JHP
average of the four rounds left, 8.7 grains of Accurate Arms #2! Accurate has a maximum load of 5.6 grains of AA#2 listed in their data sheets.
Average powder load of the round fired before the final kaboom round?
Zero. It was a squib load.
So this guy is playing with dynamite anyhow, doing the rapid fire thing as fast as he could pull the trigger, enjoying the "fire it was spitting out," gets a squib and follows it with a round loaded almost 50% over recommended max.
All we heard about the guy who blew up his gun and his hand is that he's sworn off reloading, and probably shooting.
No word on how much damage was done to his hand.
Jeff
I wrote a bit about it on the "Help with crimping" thread.
Some guy, new to shooting and BRAND NEW to reloading blew up his gun and his hand loading "hot" 40 S&W rounds.
How hot?
The rangemaster's brother-in-law is an armorer for one of the big police departments around here and took a few of the rounds from the magazine that got blown out of the gun (Sig P229), pulled the bullets and measured the powder charges after confirming the powder and bullet make.
Here was this guy's loads:
Hornady XTP 180 gr JHP
average of the four rounds left, 8.7 grains of Accurate Arms #2! Accurate has a maximum load of 5.6 grains of AA#2 listed in their data sheets.
Average powder load of the round fired before the final kaboom round?
Zero. It was a squib load.
So this guy is playing with dynamite anyhow, doing the rapid fire thing as fast as he could pull the trigger, enjoying the "fire it was spitting out," gets a squib and follows it with a round loaded almost 50% over recommended max.
All we heard about the guy who blew up his gun and his hand is that he's sworn off reloading, and probably shooting.
No word on how much damage was done to his hand.
Jeff