Some 7.5x55 Swiss
Some 7.5x55 Swiss
Working diligently to enlarge my group size.
Beautiful wood tray, BTW - makes my red plastic one look so… boring.
Originally Posted by entropy
Some 7.5x55 Swiss
Midway used to sell them with their name marked on the ends. Looks like that time has passed.
However, it looks like they probably came from
https://www.buffaloarms.com/shooting...ne-blocks.html
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
This humble round of HST is the one that convinced me to rotate my carry ammunition more frequently, and not reuse carry rounds that have been previously chambered (even once).
With a little seasonal décor just to be "artsy."
I see the primer dent…. Did it fail to go “bang”, or is that a result of a previous chambering?
Or is there a bullet setback issue from rechambering that I can’t discern?
This humble round of HST is the one that convinced me to rotate my carry ammunition more frequently, and not reuse carry rounds that have been previously chambered (even once).
With a little seasonal décor just to be "artsy."
Failed to go bang after multiple attempts. No setback.
Interesting…. Any theories? Oil contamination, some other consequence of spending a long time in the chamber, or just bad primer to begin with?
I’m just trying to understand how this episode supports rotation/cycling of carry ammo.
I’m certainly not opposed to it - just wondering your rationale.
Oil/solvent contamination can be an issue, although personally I doubt oil/solvent was a factor in this case since I don't leave my chambers/bores "wet."
Carrying subjects one's ammo to more temperature and moisture fluctuations.
Have also read that chambering a round multiple times can break up the primer "cake" thus rendering the primer inoperable. Haven't experimented with this to validate, but sounds reasonable.
Of course, it could have been a bad primer to begin with.
Nonetheless, it's motivated me to do what I can to further reduce the probability of a future occurrence to as close to zero as I can get it - hence being more diligent rotating my carry ammo.
(Which has the added benefit of more practice with and reliability validation of my carry loads. Anywhoo. . . don't want to get too far afield from the thread topic.)
Dug this out because I wanted to take a .30-30 and .38-55 comparison pic. It has to be 40 years old if it's a day. Maybe older. Dad was/is the stereotypical "buy a box, confirm sight in, go hunt" type. We might have 1-2 additional range trips during the year when we went camping at the deer lease but those were more about BB guns, .22s and bird hunting. I found several other newer boxes (including some made in this century!) I'd forgotten about having. I've been thinking about taking the old 94 to the range since it's been at least 10 years since it was on the range. I'll shoot the newer stuff for sure but I might take this along for pictures.
Here's one next to a shiny new Black Hills 255gr LFN .38-55
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Was this out of a G34?
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