Mike Irwin
Member
I blew up my Springfield .45 ACP this afternoon at the NRA range.
MTNBKR and I decided to do some shooting.
A couple of weeks ago I loaded up 150 .45 ACP rounds using 4.9 grains of WW 231. A moderately light charge, but nothing out of the ordinary.
On the 7th shot I had a CLASSIC overcharge.
It blew a big chunk of the case web out, the primer is LONG gone, the primer hole is about 2x its normal size and egg shaped.
My hand still hurts, but the Hogue rubber grips helped keep me from getting cut. I did catch some debris in the face, but nothing serious.
Given the problems I was having metering 296 last night with my Lee disk measure, and now this, I'm thinking that I need to investigate this much farther and see if my measure is malfunctioning, but any way you cut it right now, my confidence in my loading ability is completely in the toilet.
I've been loading for 25 years, and this is the first time I've ever had anything like this happen.
I'm VERY glad that I forgot my moon clips, as I wanted to shoot the 1917 Brazilian. I probably would have lost the cylinder.
I've still got 142 loaded .45 ACP rounds that I now don't trust.
Any suggestions on how to check them without disassembly each and every one?
Electronic scale, perhaps?
MTNBKR and I decided to do some shooting.
A couple of weeks ago I loaded up 150 .45 ACP rounds using 4.9 grains of WW 231. A moderately light charge, but nothing out of the ordinary.
On the 7th shot I had a CLASSIC overcharge.
It blew a big chunk of the case web out, the primer is LONG gone, the primer hole is about 2x its normal size and egg shaped.
My hand still hurts, but the Hogue rubber grips helped keep me from getting cut. I did catch some debris in the face, but nothing serious.
Given the problems I was having metering 296 last night with my Lee disk measure, and now this, I'm thinking that I need to investigate this much farther and see if my measure is malfunctioning, but any way you cut it right now, my confidence in my loading ability is completely in the toilet.
I've been loading for 25 years, and this is the first time I've ever had anything like this happen.
I'm VERY glad that I forgot my moon clips, as I wanted to shoot the 1917 Brazilian. I probably would have lost the cylinder.
I've still got 142 loaded .45 ACP rounds that I now don't trust.
Any suggestions on how to check them without disassembly each and every one?
Electronic scale, perhaps?