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To: archy

Color me skeptical.

You are trying to tell me that a round with a muzzle velocity of 1200-2000 fps simply blows a perfectly good gun apart because the round is pushed a miniscule distance further into the casing?

What is stopping the round from leaving the casing?

Is the burn rate of the powder SO FAST that it is overpressuring the ammunition case AND the the metal of the handgun, simply because it is pressed 1/1000th of an inch further into the case? If so, I'm assuming that handguns just blow up all the time with people who load their own rounds.

This doesn't sound right.


26 posted on 02/28/2007 12:15:29 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right....)
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To: Bryan24

Yes, that's what we're trying to tell you.


31 posted on 02/28/2007 12:21:34 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: Bryan24; archy

Seating the bullet deeper causes an increase in pressure. It doesn't take much to make a safe load into a Kaboom. Ask any old reloader about it, it is one of the first things you need to learn to roll your own.

to deep, and


54 posted on 02/28/2007 12:51:12 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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