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Chris,
Thanks for the kind words.
People have been saying I am crazy for 50 years, not just the last 5 years of me mapping the threshold of case bulges in guns.
I get flamed off every surplus site at the sight of my name, because in part, of my denunciation of CZ52s.
For the opposite reason, I seem to get along with Kel-Tec owners.
I made money designing switching power supplies and consulting to companies with switching power supplies with reliability or stability problems.
I cut to the chase, and overloaded the power supply until something blew up.
Transformers, capacitors, and transistors can explode like a fire cracker.
That would quickly reveal the weak point in the design.
I would improve that part, but increasing the size or better heat sinking, or less losses, etc.
Then I would try to blow the supply up again.
That way I quickly increased the reliability of the design.
For stability, I went from no load to full load in a square wave and compensated until critically damped.
I did not waste time with small signals in a non linear system.
I could afford to blow up power supplies and I can afford to blow up guns [the crummy ones I buy].
So when I started handloading 5 years ago, with in a week I was overloading to see what happens with a trigger string.
I would put .1 gr. more powder in a 9mm than listed in "Speer 12" and pull a trigger string.
Not knowing anything, I thought there was some danger.
I worked up until the 9mm case blew a hole with 115 gr. and 10.7 gr. AA#5, well above the max load of 6.8 gr. listed in my Manual. There was warning, a case bulge appeared at 10 gr.
That was a bulge at 47% and a hole in the case at 57% extra powder and seemed like a dramatic discovery at the time.
When I tried the same thing with my Glock 22 40 S&W, the case bulge appeared at 20 ~30% overload.
When I TIG welded up the feed ramp of the G22 barrel and re cut the chamber and feed ramp, the bulge threshold moved up to ~100% overload.
I was simply doing the sort of thing with handloading that I done with switching power supplies: find the weakness at elevated power levels and correct it. Then go higher.
I feel fortunate that this High Road forum has not banned me or deleted my posts when I describe my experiments with some warning.
While I have never felt any physical pain from 5 years of overloading, it is like the Crocodile Hunter with a rattle snake next to his nose saying, "I have never had a snake inject poison in me."
Common sense would indicate there are some people who really know what they are doing and imitating them would lead to mass accidents.
Clark
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A society that teaches evolution as fact will breed a generation of atheists that will destroy the society. It is Darwinian.
Yeah, and do you REALLY need all of those fingers? 
