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- From: hes@unity.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Seagal's Firearms handling (was: Re: Got One! (Spring. Arm. 1911-A1))
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.010145.2621@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:55:23 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: North Carolina State University
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- In article <199301260552.AA11169@news.service.uci.edu> spickett@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steve Pickett) writes:
- # ...
- #Sorry, I forgot to mention it was bottleneck rifle cases being filled. Hmmm,
- #wonder how many grains of bullseye fit into a 308 case? Wonder who'd be crazy
- #enough to fire it once loaded. ...
-
- Well - Col. Hatcher seems to have fired 45 gr. of Bullseye in
- a .30-'06 cartridge behind a 170 gr. flat base proof bullet -
- giving an estimated pressure of 133,000 psi. "The head of the case
- practically melted away, letting the gas out into the receiver well,
- where it messed things up a bit, [blew off the bottom plate]
- and blew splinters off the stock, but the action held firm."
- This was one of the improved "double heat treated receiver and bolt"
- rifles.
-
- #[MODERATOR: I dunno ... I bet the bolt might approach better than subsonic
- #speeds as it blows back, thought only for the fraction of a second before it
- #lodges in the shooter's skull...]
-
- Pessimist! (I suspect that Hatcher didn't actually hold this
- rifle himself during the test.)
-
- --henry schaffer
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