Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 8:53:35 GMT -5
Yesterday I went to the (300 meters) range and did some test firing with my .300 Win Mag. The load was with a 180gr Barnes TTSX, VithaVuori N-160 and CCI Large Rifle Benchrest primers. This was for preparing my loads and rifle for a Wild Boar hunt in Germany in the upcoming weeks.
I shot a reasonable 9 shot group at 300 meters and had 1 shot drift away a bit. It was my 7th shot fired that displayed this weird drift. At first I thought I made a personal mistake or the wind played tricks on me. But the recoil was not the same (a bit less than the previous shots) and the sound was not the same either.
Okay my next thought was that I did not made consistent (re)loads, so I kept the fired round aside to inspect it at later home. Since I had some serious performance issues with these Barnes bullets the last hunting season I have become a bit more picky about this particular load combination. (Note: In cooperation with the Barnes customer service I have developed this new load.)
At first glance nothing to see so I might have not seated the bullet the same as all others or a different load charge, perhaps a bad case neck. It’s afterwards sometimes hard to find out what might cause these strange single fliers. Then I removed the primer and see here........ an oval shaped fash-hole, about 50% lager than normal. My best guess this is the culprit. Causing a different kind of pressure/combustion in the case.
Apparently this bad flash-hole slipped to my attention when I prepped the cases the last time. When I would have been out in the field I might never have noticed it, especially since I shoot boars up to about 200 meters at it’s maximum. Add the adrenaline and weather conditions to it and the shot was just as good as any other during hunting.
But I thought it would be nice to share this experience what a small detail like this might result in bad or strange effects.
PJ.
I shot a reasonable 9 shot group at 300 meters and had 1 shot drift away a bit. It was my 7th shot fired that displayed this weird drift. At first I thought I made a personal mistake or the wind played tricks on me. But the recoil was not the same (a bit less than the previous shots) and the sound was not the same either.
Okay my next thought was that I did not made consistent (re)loads, so I kept the fired round aside to inspect it at later home. Since I had some serious performance issues with these Barnes bullets the last hunting season I have become a bit more picky about this particular load combination. (Note: In cooperation with the Barnes customer service I have developed this new load.)
At first glance nothing to see so I might have not seated the bullet the same as all others or a different load charge, perhaps a bad case neck. It’s afterwards sometimes hard to find out what might cause these strange single fliers. Then I removed the primer and see here........ an oval shaped fash-hole, about 50% lager than normal. My best guess this is the culprit. Causing a different kind of pressure/combustion in the case.
Apparently this bad flash-hole slipped to my attention when I prepped the cases the last time. When I would have been out in the field I might never have noticed it, especially since I shoot boars up to about 200 meters at it’s maximum. Add the adrenaline and weather conditions to it and the shot was just as good as any other during hunting.
But I thought it would be nice to share this experience what a small detail like this might result in bad or strange effects.
PJ.
My daughter came from Missouri, my son and grand son, my wife and I had a nice dinner of grilled "porter house" pork chops, corn on the cobb, my son, G'son and I share 10/5. G'son is 4 minutes early though @ 10/4.
Pooh I hope you find to right house . 
