Is that where barrel whip/harmonics come into play?
(I wish I had done what the smith did....take pictures! Then I could've shown them off here)
7mm is a way underrated round! what’s better,,, 7STWSpeaking of Myths....Myth Busters on TV, supposedly busted a myth several years ago, that leaving a laser bore sight in the end of a high powered rifle barrel, and firing a round having forgot it was there would peel the barrel back like a peeled banana.
They couldn't repeat it, so called it "busted".
However .... I watched my wife's nephew's son do just that with a brand new Remington 700 BDL chambered for 7mm Magnum! He was wearing shooting glasses and nary had a scratch. (tough action!) I was tasked with taking the gun to my home town's best gunsmith to see if he would put a new barrel on it......the action looked fine. The gun smith took pictures of the rifle, but wouldn't touch it otherwise. He claimed the action was most likely compromised enough to make the gun unsafe......so I took back the bad news....and they displayed it for a while, then chucked it.
I'm guessing the Myth Busters crew, didn't try it on a high pressure round like the 7mm Mag.
Tears of joy ... Right after the "empty feeling" of wiping out a big chunk from bank account.
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That large rifle primers are "fine to use" in large pistol cases. I never tried it but know at least a couple of fellas who did and regretted it.
you beat me too it… dillion 750 or a new 10mm double stack???!!!! lolTears of joy ... Right after the "empty feeling" of wiping out a big chunk from bank account.
< And I have an agreement with wife that she gets to spend double what I spend on my hobbies ... And after retirement, she has "somehow" talked me into going 3x+ ...
But remember. A reloading press is the thing that goes up and down? As long as your finished round's dimensions are within .001" of OAL, your pistol/barrel won't know the difference which color press the rounds were loaded from.
Yup. That myth was busted a long time ago. The uncle who taught me to reload in the 70's told me to use standard small rifle primers in my 200gr cast Linotype .357Mag loads. I was loading over maximum per the Lyman manual (#45, still got it) and he said Unique needed a longer burn with such heavy charges and bullets in my Marlin '94 and they wouldn't hurt my 4-5/8" Ruger Blackhawk one bit. Same primer but with a slightly thicker cup and slightly longer burn time. Uncle was an Army chemist, a bio-weps man in Korea during the war, and learned a lot about ordnance in the process.
barrel time and muzzle rise differences affect the trajectory arc of the bullet on the way to the target. the differences can add or subtract from one another. just another variable relationship to deal with in this game.
One was a Winchester '92 in .44-40 that slamfired with the breech partially unlocked on cycling. The other was a 1991A1 .45ACP that slamfired on feeding and fired out of battery. Good news is nobody was hurt in either incident but it was definitely very bad for the guns and more than a little disconcerting. Large rifle primers are just too long for unmodified large pistol cases. Which makes them not just fine as a substitute.
Tears of joy ... Right after the "empty feeling" of wiping out a big chunk from bank account.
To not hijack the thread, answered on "Favorite press" thread - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/my-favorite-press.893411/page-3#post-12028635
After spending over $160,000 on reloading equipment/components I told my wife, "But honey, I saved you like around $200,000 compared to buying factory ammunition ..."
Several years ago, I spent over $7000 on gun stuff over Black Friday/Christmas ... Yup, wife proceeded to spend $14,000 the following year ... I buy a Dillon 550C and wife now has a BIG chicken house with automatic doors >
