A reminder for all the reloaders...

[m25operator]

I tend to treat bolt action rounds like a surgical instrument and do a lot of case prep, because the rifles were built for accuracy and lot of money invested in glass, barrels, stocks, triggers etc... I don't want to drive my race car on regular gas, don't want to feed my precision guns regular fodder.

Now having said that, my U.S. Service rifle coach, is a High Master, that means his scores as a rule are 98% or above in all conditions! He loads on a Dillon 1,000, and has a good formula.  He starts off with once fired brass, He only loads them 3 times, He uses Winchester primers because of the way they are oriented in the tray, cup side down, He then paints the primers with spray paint, white for the 1st loading, red for the 2nd and blaze orange for the 3rd, on the 3rd time he leaves the brass on the range. He is loading for the M1a and AR15, the Dillon does have an electric case trimmer. 

I have 2 Dillon 550 b's set up for small and large primer that are primarily pistol. Loading for .308 for my M1a's works well, I have not tried .223 yet.

[SlideRacker]

I may be looking at it wrong, but take a close look at the exploded round. Is that a belted round??? It sure looks like it to me. I had a gun in the shop a couple years ago. It was a 30-06 Browning that someone had fired a belted round in. I asked the guy how he got it to chamber and he said he had to "whack" it in. I liked to have never got that bolt out.

[Big Frank]

I may be looking at it wrong, but take a close look at the exploded round. Is that a belted round??? It sure looks like it to me. I had a gun in the shop a couple years ago. It was a 30-06 Browning that someone had fired a belted round in. I asked the guy how he got it to chamber and he said he had to "whack" it in. I liked to have never got that bolt out.

I thought it just ballooned out to form a ring. Is there a space in or behind the chamber where the brass could flow into that shape?

[philw]

Talk about Fail



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rRKP1OkR1fA&feature=related

[Hazcat]

WOW!    They tried to reproduce this on the show where they do the torture tests (lab coat guys) but were not able to.  Did it (tried) on mythbusters too.  Here is actual proof it DOES happen. 

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