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To: rockfish59
Most likely an overload. One gun range I went to had about 5 handguns hanging on the wall with the cylinders blown apart from hot handloads.

It can happen, even to careful reloaders... I knew a guy who accidentally grabbed a can of Winchester 231 instead of the Winchester 296 he wanted for a .44Mag load!

As I recall, about 7 gr of 231 is a very nice, light load with a 240gr LSWC bullet. About 29gr of 296 is a very heavy load wih the same bullet. This guy put 29gr of 231 behind that bullet! It blew the cylinder apart!

Mark

9 posted on 07/01/2002 10:23:22 AM PDT by MarkL
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To: MarkL
That's when an overload of 'Bullseye' takes on a whole new meaning.
13 posted on 07/01/2002 10:35:30 AM PDT by rockfish59
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