I got some .45 LC brass from a CAS shooter and in the hundred I got were 17 44-40s that were fired in a .45 LC. Not dangerous but dumb!
Best, Thomas.
I got some .45 LC brass from a CAS shooter and in the hundred I got were 17 44-40s that were fired in a .45 LC. Not dangerous but dumb!
Best, Thomas.
I know a 308 cartridge will chamber and fire in a 270. Sometimes the 270 will actually survive! My uncle told me of a test rifle (fired remotely) that split its ring and the barrel followed the bullet down range. The barrel apparently was still intact.
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I once asked for a box of 7.62x54R and the clerk tried to hand me a box of 7.62x39mm... I have never trusted any gun shop employee since unless I knew them. This thread tells me that was the right decision.
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My brother walked into gander and asked for 38spl, the sold him 38 super. :/
The 8x57 in a .30-06 seems to be common. I have seen it done. The shooter assumed that a mauser action with a military stepped barrel meant that it had to be 8x57 and therefore bought dies and bullets and loaded accordingly. The rifle survived, a testament to the strength of the 98 design.
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I've seen many .380 acp cases fired from Makarov pistols. It isn't dangerous, but it isn't very accurate, either. It can be very confusing today with all the different cartridges available. As a kid, I remember being very confused by the stampings on the side of a Remington No. 6 rifle: ".22 short, .22 Long, .22 Long Rifle". I'd be willing to bet that most people on this forum don't know the difference between the last two.
A couple of years ago I watched a man shoot a whole box of 25/06 factory loaded ammo in a 30/06 rifle. His buddy was watching through a spotting scope and neither of them acted like anything appeared unusual about the target. I thought the rifle report sounded odd, but didn't know what had happened until they left and I picked up their brass. This was a few days before deer season; maybe he hunted with 25/06 ammo.
I've got a .223 case that was fired in a 7.62x39 AR. Happened at our range by a club member and his new rifle.
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I remember a guy that bought a .17 HMR and a .22LR matching rifles. He says his son went shooting and took the wrong gun and fired a .22lr in the .17 and ruptured the case and stuck the
Bullet in the throat.
I was at a public range and watched as a couple of gangsta-looking fellows struggled with a snub-nosed revolver. They shot up a box of ammo and left, leaving their detritus on the bench. After a bit I got curious and walked over. They had been shooting 32 S&W longs in a 38 special by wrapping the cases with scraps of paper towels. The cases looked like a funnel going down to the case head. Curiously, none of them had split, they had merely ballooned out to reach the walls of the 38 cylinder chambers.
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There is no shortage of stupid people, I meet them all the time at the range they are full of "good" advice if you know what I mean. Its a lot better now that I shoot at a club instead of a public range but they still show up more super experts then idiots know.
I took some .270 and .25/06 brass and reformed it to 30/06. People freaked when they saw the headstamp. Worse, later I had the rifle rechambered to 30/06 ai. That really had the people scratching their heads...
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Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?
Waitll ya get it reamed to 300 Gibbs .
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I was young and stupid then I'm older now. Me 1992 .
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It's impossible to chamber a 30-06 in a 8x57
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A 308 yes a 30-06 no.
The top is a 32 shell probably fired in a 28 gun.
2 x 44SPL from a 45LC
God only knows what happened to the steel case 9mm and i'm even scared to think og what happened to the 223
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Yup. Sometimes you gotta keep your reformed brass hid, or someone will say " Guess what I saw some idiot at the range do today!"
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Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?
As much effort as I expend making 30, 357 Herrett from 30-30, 6.5X257 from 7X57 and 7.7X58 from 270 and 30-06, I am bound to lose one or two on the range and just think what people say when they find it and try to reload it in the parent configuration.
219 Donaldson Wasp with that 30-30 headstamp ought to really freak them out!
I think most of what I have found is 300 Winchester that had been fired in 300 Weatherby. Sure does make for a short neck!
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The Second there to protect the First!
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |