Holy chit! Odd Czech 7.62x39

ShawnC6 said:
Try it out lol. Id probably set an SKS up with that round and pull the trigger with a string
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Really?
It's not dangerous to fire a bullet backwards. It's the same amount of material with the same pressure behind it and the same bearing surface. The pointy end is just going the other way; it would be like a boat-tail-wad-cutter. That's if it chambers at all depending on the throat dimensions and how far forward the full diameter of the bullet goes.
I've seated bullets backwards on purpose before just to see how it shot. Accuracy for me was poor and my first batch wouldn't chamber since the shank was too far forward and hit the lands in the throat.
There are all kinds of rumours of snipers in WW1 firing bullets backwards to spall, or knock chunks of metal off the opposite side of armour plates. Also a lot of rumours about people flipping bullets in surplus FMJ ammo to make hollow point hunting ammo shortly after the world wars (when surplus was dirt cheap and hunting ammo was expensive).
The Box of Truth did a test with reversed FMJ bullets and found they just break up, they don't expand much.

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The Ammo Channel guy had what looked like some pressure issues but I have no idea what his load was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZAyhv0xqUI

Flattened primers just means more pressure than a non-flattened primer; it doesn't tell you how much pressure there was. Some brands flatten at perfectly safe pressures depending on the cartridge used.
The split necks isn't a sign of pressure normally; it's a sign of over hardened brass. Maybe the pressure worked different in the neck and caused the cracks some other way? I've never heard of dangerous pressure levels splitting a neck on properly annealed brass though so pressure alone likely isn't to blame for that.
One commentor pointed out that jamming the bullet into the rifling could cause an increase in pressure.

My tested loads were all at starting levels so maybe there is a pressure increase and I just didn't run into it.
 
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lol. Armor piercing. In world war 1 the Germans loaded some bullets backwards and found it to be more effective penetrating steel. Used it against tanks and the armored shields used by snipers. Saw it on a show and tested on the history channel. Dan and Peter Snow were the hosts, but I can't remember the name of the program.
 
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