I was just reading about this on another forum. The shooter was using factory reloads. They say a batch of about a 1000 rounds was pulled and 4 were found to have pistol powder in them. The link provided in the OP is apparently inaccurate about who loaded the ammo.
AR-15 handload catastrophe
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I wonder what the peak chamber pressure would be on a full power load mismatched with bullseye or the like, if the action could withstand and not fail.I'm sure this action failed before the combination reached its apex. Would it be in the 150,000psi range??
i had a similar incident(no where near that bad) but mine was from some 20yr old reloads with winchester 748 not over loads, after the upper cracked i pulled some of the bullets and the powder was like concrete i had to dig all the powder out of the brass with an awl
I saw those pics and you know what? I'd sacrifice an AR anyday if it meant that I would come home in one piece without missing an eye, bleeding, cut, pieces of metal embedded all over my upper body and perhaps even return home in a box....
Really lucky. The AR is replaceable NOT your health. Glad the guy didn't get any major injuries.
Really lucky. The AR is replaceable NOT your health. Glad the guy didn't get any major injuries.
R I G H T !!!!!!!
A friend of mine has an XCR and he was in my shop the other day wondering how to get the bunched up helicoil off the barrel retaining bolt.
Until Robinson sends him a new helicoil insert that particular rifle is N/S. And to think they have the gaul to claim the XCR is the best battle rifle in the world or some other nonsense.
I haven't seen the receiver yet but hopefully the thread for the helicoil is not damaged. Otherwise that lower is junk.
LMAO Really that's classic
Very similar event I had while shooting my friends M305 many years ago . Seems my "friend" had a severe drinking problem and usually killed a 2-4 while loading. He was loading 9mm on a single stage press using using a stand alone hopper to charge the cases. He "finished" loading the 9mm and then apparently forgot to dump the pistol powder and topped off the hopper with the IMR powder to load .308, trouble was the hopper was still half full of Unique. Man that barrel shot out of that action like no tomorrow. I don't think we ever found the bolt. Still have the scars on my left hand and the shooting glasses were toast but other than that I came away unscathed. Wish I still had the pictures, but that was 11 years, 3 laptops and a divorce ago.
This is why I always load rifle ammo first!
That is if I plan to reload both rifle and pistol ammo in the same session - which normally I don't.
I've also used masking tape to write RIFLE ONLY and PISTOL ONLY on the powder cans.
That is if I plan to reload both rifle and pistol ammo in the same session - which normally I don't.
I've also used masking tape to write RIFLE ONLY and PISTOL ONLY on the powder cans.
I'm getting an idea for Afghanistan. Take my press and a tonne of pistol powder. In my off time: pull the bullets from some 7.62x39, remove propellant, nearly fill case with some nasty fast burning high gas volume pistol powder, epoxy projectiles back into case, seed "special" cartridges back into Taliban Tony's caches.
