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- From: bbx!bbxrbk!russ@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Russ Kepler)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Blowing up a rifle
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.024411.11088@bbxrbk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:56:04 GMT
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- Organization: russ at home in Albuquerque New Mexico
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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. Guess it wouldn't exactly qualify as a
- #subsonic load :-)
- #
- #[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...]
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- Well, I once saw on a gunsmiths bench the results of the firing of a
- .30-06 case filled with the Bullseye volume equivalent of a 4985 load
- (about 46 grains). The load was fired in a Springfield 03A3 and there
- wasn't a lot of rifle left. The barrel was split in front of the
- receiver with large pieces missing. A scope had been mounted and was
- now suitable as a periscope.
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- The lugs did hold, though.
-
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- Russ Kepler, posting from home russ@bbx.basis.com, bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
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