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Post by tptplayer on Mar 15, 2004 21:48:43 GMT -5
Tonight at our tactical shooting practice night, one of the guys was shooting .38 Special handloads in a Taurus with a ported barrel. The bullet was sticking out the end of the gun but didn't make it all of the way out.
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Post by "DoubleAction" on Mar 15, 2004 22:57:40 GMT -5
I think I would prefer to shoot a few lanes down from that guy.
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Post by MLB on Mar 16, 2004 12:03:48 GMT -5
Hah! Always good advice on this forum ;D
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Post by Fobos on Mar 16, 2004 23:57:01 GMT -5
Tonight at our tactical shooting practice night, one of the guys was shooting .38 Special handloads in a Taurus with a ported barrel. The bullet was sticking out the end of the gun but didn't make it all of the way out. That's great... I have yet to see something like that in person. |
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Post by "DoubleAction" on Mar 17, 2004 2:00:42 GMT -5
What would really be interesting, would be to see him shoot on rapid fire with those lightnin fast reloads.
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Post by papercutter on Mar 17, 2004 8:10:03 GMT -5
I once loaded a 357 mag with an old batch of 2400 it was so light , the bullet left the barrel and hit the ground 40 ft out ,with trail of smoking powder grains falling like snow. The 20 guys on the line all turn to look, it was a low point in my 30 years of reloading.
In some cases light loads of slow powder can detonate , I never had that happen.
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Post by redneckruss on Mar 18, 2004 0:03:11 GMT -5
I "heard tell" a story years ago. I was just a youngster visiting my 'uncle' on his farm in in SE Indiana with my father. My dad and I were shooting his HS .22 9 shot revolver and my uncle had picked up a very nice python with a 6 or 7 inch barrel. (The sweetest thing!) Well now, we were all shooting and having a blast, so to speak, when my 'uncle' gets to talking with his new partner (they were reserve marshall's as I recall, but don't put so much stock in my memory on that item.) He said that the week before they had been transporting a [fugative] from the jail to the courthouse, or vice versa, and his buddy decided to spring him from custody. So the guy in front draws his service revolver and quick as you please fires six shots. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!, although they actual sounded more like 'pops'. He is incredulous. He's just drilled six perfectly placed shots into this guy's chest and the guy is now aiming his own gun at the marshall. Well, long story short, his partner shoots the BG. So the first guy goes to reload and can't get the cylinder open. He takes the gun to the dept armorer and he can't believe what he sees. Supposably, the guy had nothing but squibs in both the gun and in the speed loaders in his belt. The bullets were packed in the barrel more or less nut to but, with the last one jaming between the cylinder and the barrel, keeping the thing from opening.
I hear he carried factory loads from then on.
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Post by Callahan on Mar 26, 2004 16:01:32 GMT -5
No problem with the bullets clearing the barrel crown where I was today. Visited the range to test a new rifle and I had a guy on one side of me testing out hand loads for his 300 Weatherby Magnum.
Guy on the other side hunts in Africa and the smallest of the five rifles he had was a 300 WSM! Biggest was a 416.
Made me glad I had the sponge protectors plus the headset. Those guys' cannons made my .270 and '06 sound like a .22 Mag!
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