Originally Posted by
frnkeore
JHeath,
You know a lot about metallurgy and you said that you do aerobatical rigging, let me pose a situation to you......... You been using steel anchors for a short while in your rigging (I assume peoples lives are at risk in your rigging work) and one day, you accidently drop one, it hits a steel surface and shatters so, you grab somemore and about 1/2 of them do the same thing, the other half turn out to be stronger than the advertized strength but, the only way to test them is destructive testing. Would you continue to use that same batch of anchors in your work? Now, if you heard that others riggers had used them w/o knowing for quite a while, would you start using them again?
Now, I'm not against shooting LN 03's with cast bullet loads, I thing most have been cycled enough to be relatively safe. I've never had the bug to buy one, mainly because of the unsupported chamber but, they are a very LARGE piece of our history and there are a lot of them used in the CBA Milsurp class competition w/o any problems, at least, so far. Would I own one, yes if I got a deal I couldn't turn down. Would I shoot it, yes, again but, most likely with cast loads.
Frank