Explosion, Fire Rock Bend's Nosler Bullets Plant

KTVZ.COM ^ | POSTED: 2:33 pm PDT June 2, 2010 | By Adam Aaro, KTVZ.COM

[archy]

Initial reports indicated all were evacuated from SW Bend Nosler bullets facility.

(Evan Gonzalez, KTVZ)

[archy]

Related:

15 May explosion at NH muzzleloader/ammunition plant.

[ironwill]

Gee, first that black powder gun manufacturing plant goes up in a boom a week or two ago and now this. Hmmmm....

[jcsjcm]

Isn’t this the 2nd ammunition place to blow in the last month or so. Hmmmm.... What is going on I wonder?

[archy]

Gee, first that black powder gun manufacturing plant goes up in a boom a week or two ago and now this. Hmmmm....

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."

-- Bond Villian Auric Goldfinger, in the novel and 1964 film Goldfinger.

[garyhope]

Uh oh, there goes the price of ammo again.

Obama, Holder, and Rahm Emanuel probably set this up as a distraction to the oil spill and Rod Blagojevich scandal.

[archy]

Isn’t this the 2nd ammunition place to blow in the last month or so. Hmmmm.... What is going on I wonder?

There's a war going on, with a related shortage on the civilian market, with manufacturers going hard at it on overtime and round-the-clock production schedules trying to catch up on their backorders and meet that demand.

Some have added new and inexperienced employees, and two such accidents do not necessarily indicate multiple points of coincidence.

But as Mr. Goldfinger, quoted above, observed: a third one would. And in both incidents, employees observed a flash in testing areas just prior to the resulting explosion. Maybe it's a seasonal static discharge, though appearing in widely seperate parts of the country.

Or maybe it's something else.

[Tailback]

Oh crap. Just 2 hours drive from me.

Just bought 750 155gr custom competition bullets on sale from them. They make great bullets, hopefully they’re back to 100% soon.

[backwoods-engineer]

Dang, sabotage, I bet..

Too bad. I love Nosler bullets.

['smith]

It could be something as simple as “green powder”, that unburned powder ejected when a gun is fired can become a hazard if it's left to accumulate or is swept down a drain but remains in the pipes. An indoor range in the Portland area had it's roof removed by such an explosion.

[archy]

Dang, sabotage, I bet..

Hope not. But note also this news story from 05 May:

Funeral Arrangements Set for Men Killed In Redstone Arsenal Explosion

[Squantos]

Guns should be considered no less than a child IMO. Don’t get another one till ya can feed the ones ya already have !!

....... ANYONE who owns firearms and does not have the capability to cast or swage their own bullets and reload their own ammunition is kidding themselves as it is no longer a given that commercial ammunition will always be there much less the tools and materials to roll yer own per se........

http://www.corbins.com/

http://www.dillonprecision.com/#/home.html

http://www.rcbs.com/

http://www.redding-reloading.com/

http://www.lymanproducts.com/lyman/home/

http://www.sierrabullets.com/

http://www.moyerscastbullets.com/

http://www.buffaloarms.com/

http://www.starlinebrass.com/

http://www.speer-ammo.com/products/golddot.aspx

http://www.cci-ammunition.com/products/primers/default.aspx

[Global2010]

I was wathching a military doc about USsnipermen and the ammo they use.

Is that the same?

[Global2010]

Explosive Oregon Ping.

[redgolum]

Dang.

Hornady is my brand, but there is nothing wrong with Nosler’s. Glad everyone was ok.

[Joe Brower]

[Joe Brower]

Good to see you back, archy.

[Dead Corpse]

Oops. So much for 273 days without an accident.

I'm glad everyone is ok...

[Dayman]

This probably won’t raise the price of ammo too much as Nosler bullets aren’t reloaded ammo and are kind of expensive. There are also a heck of a lot of other non-reloaded bullet manufacturers out there so reloaders still have a lot of options available. They are good quality bullets, though.

[pabianice]

Explosion, Fire Rock Bend's Nosler Cartridge Plant

Fixed it.