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MacD Super Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:10 pm Post subject: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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Last night I was loading some Barnes 50 grain Varmint Grenades in .223. I usually use RX10 for these but as I was out I substituted Varget. I checked my reloading notes and had one tried load at 26.5 grains. There are no published loads for the VG and Varget that I have been able to locate. OAL was 2.210 and my notes indicated that the VG max for my chamber was 2.26. All good so I loaded up 20 rounds. Now the VG is a long bullet and this was obviously a compressed load so I took extra pains to measure each completed cartridge to ensure I was okay. All finished and I put everything away for the night. Sitting watching the tube I started getting this feeling something with the reload was wrong. I rechecked my notes and the 26.5 was possibly a 25.5. I went to PointBlank to check and sure enough it was recorded at 25.5. I had worked up to this from the recommended starting load I was given at 24.2 grains based upon output from Quickload. I unloaded all rounds with my kinetic bullet puller. That wasn't much fun. Now I am sure that I wouldn't have killed myself using the hotter load but I may have damaged my rifle. Lesson learned is to double check those notes
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TRBLSHTR Super Member
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fnuser Super Member
Joined: Dec 23, 2008 Posts: 914 Location: S.W. Missouri, U.S.A.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:48 pm Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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I hear you man, I have gotten the heeby jeebies after the fact on a couple and went back and dumped em out. Always better safe then sorry in this game.
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fnuser Super Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:48 pm Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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The grass is really green right outside of my reloading shed!
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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:01 pm Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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1895ss wrote: |
fnuser wrote: |
The grass is really green right outside of my reloading shed! |
Don't throw a lit match out there, is that what you're saying? |
Maybe its because he hasn't been out there in a while and it needs to be mowed.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15723 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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_________________ Cheers, Vince
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jcruthis Member
Joined: Apr 14, 2011 Posts: 70 Location: NW MO
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:42 pm Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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vince im betting you havent heard the end of this 30" hole from the mrs yet huh?....lol oh if i had a nickel for everytime ive done something similar.....
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dhc4ever Super Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:17 am Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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dare I say,
Look up and live? (also receive less flak from all involved or laughing, like me)
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Elvis Super Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:21 am Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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good catch you guys its far nicer to hear you caught it rather than read an obit that you bought it.
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Vince Site Admin
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:51 am Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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_________________ Cheers, Vince
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Fireman_DJ Member
Joined: Aug 11, 2011 Posts: 104 Location: Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:00 am Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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My only stuff up so far is priming too soon after ultra-sonic cleaning.
After miss-firing near half of the shots, I pulled the rest.
That was about 50 rounds pulled.
And keep the "waste" powder. Apart from having fun with it, put some in a small container in your hunting pack for helping get fires started in an emergency.
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MacD Super Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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Is there some reason not to reuse the powder?
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Fireman_DJ Member
Joined: Aug 11, 2011 Posts: 104 Location: Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: When It doesn't Feel Right............. |
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In my case, I have to assume some of the powder may have been wet as well. And I'm trying to shoot from 1000 yards, so any possible problem needs to be avoided.
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