Heres a snippet from another thread about an experienced reloader doing a nasty on a Tikka rifle.
I had loaded these rounds years ago for an older t3 I had. In the interest of accuracy I had loaded to an oal of just .010 off the lands. Advice from an experienced gunsmith. When I was at the range yesterday we were having a misfire with every second round of 223 norinco (not with the M4) so we switched to those 4 year old hand loads. No misfires and good accuracy. Just a ##### getting the bolt closed. Obviously the lands were closer. I think when closeing the bolt (with considerable effort) I must have been driving the projectile back into the case. Thus raising the pressure. I shoot IPSC and do a lot of reloading. I also reload with a friend every time and we always watch each other for errors. We also do this with no distractions. Jay can back this up. I probably have loaded 100,000 rounds by now. I just don't see me overloading this round. This said I do take ownership of this and do feel terrible about it happening to my wife. Thanks for the comments about not letting family shoot your reloads. That makes me feel even worse. The main focus of this thread was to seek a gunsmith in Edmonton who does Tikka's. As for the back cover someone asked. It's ok. It did get launched into my wife's face though.
I had loaded these rounds years ago for an older t3 I had. In the interest of accuracy I had loaded to an oal of just .010 off the lands. Advice from an experienced gunsmith. When I was at the range yesterday we were having a misfire with every second round of 223 norinco (not with the M4) so we switched to those 4 year old hand loads. No misfires and good accuracy. Just a ##### getting the bolt closed. Obviously the lands were closer. I think when closeing the bolt (with considerable effort) I must have been driving the projectile back into the case. Thus raising the pressure. I shoot IPSC and do a lot of reloading. I also reload with a friend every time and we always watch each other for errors. We also do this with no distractions. Jay can back this up. I probably have loaded 100,000 rounds by now. I just don't see me overloading this round. This said I do take ownership of this and do feel terrible about it happening to my wife. Thanks for the comments about not letting family shoot your reloads. That makes me feel even worse. The main focus of this thread was to seek a gunsmith in Edmonton who does Tikka's. As for the back cover someone asked. It's ok. It did get launched into my wife's face though.
