Oct 20, 2009 #21 dwr461 Well-Known Member Rating - 100% 4 0 0 Jan 23, 2009 3,930 38 Baton Rouge Wow, that's a catatrosphic failure if I ever saw one. Dave
Oct 20, 2009 #22 smith625 REVOLVER DRIVER Rating - 100% 36 0 0 May 12, 2008 2,923 38 port vincent louisiana This guy is lucky to be alive, that is a lot of shrapnel flying.
Oct 21, 2009 #23 L LACamper oldbie Premium Member Rating - 100% 4 0 0 Jun 3, 2007 8,643 48 Metairie, LA Ben Segrest said: This was posted a while back on another board. There are more pics in that thread. And an interesting theory on what happened. Click to expand... I've read of that theory before (underloading a cartridge so the powder spreads under the level of the primer, when it fires it burns from top to bottom). Precision shooting did an article about it some years ago. They blew up a nice old colt...
Ben Segrest said: This was posted a while back on another board. There are more pics in that thread. And an interesting theory on what happened. Click to expand... I've read of that theory before (underloading a cartridge so the powder spreads under the level of the primer, when it fires it burns from top to bottom). Precision shooting did an article about it some years ago. They blew up a nice old colt...
Oct 21, 2009 #24 scubasteve Well-Known Member Rating - 100% 9 0 0 Mar 12, 2007 904 16 Baton Rouge Looks to me as a good example of why you should seat your primers flush or below the level of the case.
Looks to me as a good example of why you should seat your primers flush or below the level of the case.
Oct 25, 2009 #25 bhp9mm Well-Known Member Rating - 100% 29 0 0 Dec 26, 2007 1,152 36 slidell,la he was lucky good it was not a pre lock smith to