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To: DJ Taylor

A double charge would be catastrophic.

When I was around 12, I took a pair of pliers and pulled the bullet out of a Remington .22 LR case. I noticed it was only around two thirds full of powder.

Feeling that Remington had short changed me, I pulled a couple more and dumped enough in one to fill it. I must have been a little suspicious because I used my Brothers Remington model 513 which had dual rear locking lugs instead of my model 514 which just had the bolt handle locking it.

When I fired it, there was no hole in the board I had it pointed at, just smoke everywhere. I had to beat the bolt open and there was no case in the chamber. I have no idea what happened to it or the bullet. I did find tiny pieces of brass throughout the bolt etc. It must have literally turned the shell and bullet into gas. I still don’t know for sure what happened.

Incredibly the old Remington was undamaged. This was not a double charge but about a charge and a half.


9 posted on 01/31/2014 2:24:30 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: yarddog

You disintegrated the bullet.


19 posted on 01/31/2014 2:45:43 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: yarddog

Wait until the old boy beside you touches of a 300 Weatherby that had about 10 grains of 2400 under a full load of 4350. Even the Weatherby action couldn’t keep that bolt in. It was ugly, check your equipment folk’s!


33 posted on 01/31/2014 4:31:58 PM PST by Dusty Road
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