Must have got his instructions on the internet!He's going it wrong...
There's just some people that really shouldn't be trusted with anything sharper than a butter knife. Some can't even be trusted with that...Over the years y’all have heard me speak of “The Village Idiot”. After knowing me a good 5 years he asked about getting into reloading for his hunting rifle. He bought died and a shell houlder for his 30/06 and I told him I had powder & primers.
He shows up with a suitcase of Bud knowing I refuse to ever drink Bud (still to this day)! I tell him he can’t be getting phuced up and reloading, not on my equipment in my place. Being The Village Idiot he has a beer to settle his shakes! We sit down and I teach him how to set up the resizing die and leave him to it.
I always clean the primer pockets on my brass. Instead of tapping them out he insisted on blowing them out. Be cause I say no to drinking beer he decides he needs to smoke! No smoking at the bench or in the reloading room!
He’s Jonesing for a beer & smoke! We go outside & smoke while having another beer. Back inside I set up the powder charger show him how it works then let him charge cases. At the time he was still married and his son was just starting to walk. So I would go back and forth between him & our wives with his kid. When I go back he has powder spilt every where! Over charged cases and start freaking out when I tell him he phucing up!
His first range trip most of his rounds won’t fire. His blowing out the primer pocket may have included spit! One round that does fire seizes up his bolt. Knowing I didn’t let him over charge any cases I finally beat his bolt open. The barrel looked as if he had a boating accident! The nicked out case was scratched all to hell! You wouldn’t believe “his clean gun”! There actually was a pile of sand after running a can of WD40 down the barrel!
He gave up on reloading because I was to bitchy about how he did it! I think I still have his dies. He eventually bought a Dillon 350. He wouldn’t take my advice on how to build a bench. He asked if I’d come over and check it out and help set up the Dillon. His bench was straight up Homer Simpson constructed! The screws he chose looked like the assorted ones from the grocery store. Bent screws not driving in and broken heads dominated his build. His cheap hollow interior door was more criticism then he could handle.
He was a Florida man! He died before the Dillon ever got set up! I thought about buying it, but knew he phuced up his sons credit buying a few guns & suppressors.
Watched a show where a rocket scientist put 5 pounds of black powder in a bowl in a porta potti and set it off.There's definitely more to the story. 6lb of smokeless is not going to do that kind of destruction on it's own. Black powder might.
As you can see in the video, it DID NOT explode, it burned, big difference.I guess no one here has ever heard of indoor ranges having flash fires when the unburnt powder builds up on the floor ignites?
True it did burn and I would say it burned pretty hot. Now say a guy had powder contained in say 40 mm ammo cans what do you think would happen? We all know ammo cooks off. Would a hot fire & small explosion off say black powder rupture & ignite a gas pipe? Ever seen a house explode from a natural gas leak?As you can see in the video, it DID NOT explode, it burned, big difference.
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True it did burn and I would say it burned pretty hot. Now say a guy had powder contained in say 40 mm ammo cans what do you think would happen? We all know ammo cooks off. Would a hot fire & small explosion off say black powder rupture & ignite a gas pipe? Ever seen a house explode from a natural gas leak?
House down the street from me in Houston exploded from a gas leak!Nothing you mentioned here would cause an explosion like that.
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Smokeless powder doesn't explode when contained. It builds pressure when contained, hence the reason the reason that different types and brands of powders have different burn rates. Because they build pressure at different rates.Put 10 grains in a shell where the maximum is 5 grains and see what happens. 10 grains is only .02 ounces. Smokeless powder ignites when not contained but explodes when contained. Would not think that a plastic powder container would be enough containment for an explosion but who knows.
True it did burn and I would say it burned pretty hot. Now say a guy had powder contained in say 40 mm ammo cans what do you think would happen? We all know ammo cooks off. Would a hot fire & small explosion off say black powder rupture & ignite a gas pipe? Ever seen a house explode from a natural gas leak?
Have to agree with Dawico on that.Nothing you mentioned here would cause an explosion like that.
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