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<blockquote data-quote="Rez Exelon" data-source="post: 4246366" data-attributes="member: 5800"><p>They do look pretty in the meantime though!</p><p></p><p>True story though --- many years back I had a 220 Swift nearly blow up on me. I forget where I got it, but it came with some rounds that all looked good to me. In boxes and stuff, very uniform, all the same headstamp. So I went ahead and took em to the range. Well, for about two shots everything was fine. Until I popped one off that kinda popped back at me. Bolt stayed in the gun but I got a face full of gas and powder and such.</p><p></p><p>The primer pocket separated and left the case stuck in the chamber. That was fun to get out. </p><p></p><p>When I got home I took a much closer look at the rounds. While very consistent they were all apparently seated about 1mm too far out. Since the gun was a conversion the magazine box took them oversize. But what was happening is that the bullet was out far enough to jam in the lands, and I surmise that that gave me a huge pressure spike. Surprising really that I got two rounds in before bad stuff happened. I've been much much more careful about getting rounds ever since. I sure don't want to take a chance on a round that might have 100gr behind it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rez Exelon, post: 4246366, member: 5800"] They do look pretty in the meantime though! True story though --- many years back I had a 220 Swift nearly blow up on me. I forget where I got it, but it came with some rounds that all looked good to me. In boxes and stuff, very uniform, all the same headstamp. So I went ahead and took em to the range. Well, for about two shots everything was fine. Until I popped one off that kinda popped back at me. Bolt stayed in the gun but I got a face full of gas and powder and such. The primer pocket separated and left the case stuck in the chamber. That was fun to get out. When I got home I took a much closer look at the rounds. While very consistent they were all apparently seated about 1mm too far out. Since the gun was a conversion the magazine box took them oversize. But what was happening is that the bullet was out far enough to jam in the lands, and I surmise that that gave me a huge pressure spike. Surprising really that I got two rounds in before bad stuff happened. I've been much much more careful about getting rounds ever since. I sure don't want to take a chance on a round that might have 100gr behind it. [/QUOTE]
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