carnaby
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...and then pieced together some unrelated sentence fragments to show that Lee endorses the practice.
Lee certainly did not endorse this practice. I'm saying that Hodgdon fired these loads with jacketed bullets, which is all the manual states. Make whatever you want of that.
Look, I wasn't looking for opinions on whether or not I should be doing this, that's what my mom is for. I was only asking for opinions on the evidence, and if it looked like this was a squib due to a complete lack of powder or if the powder failed to ignite because of the excessive case volume etc.
Really, I didn't ask for any other opinions. As long as I'm not risking detonation with a low charge, then I don't care if this is a bad idea, and I don't care if I ruin a bunch of barrels. Trust me, I have more than enough to spare. As long as I'm checking after each shot for a squib, then there's no other danger involved.
But what all this makes me wonder is...why? Even if the squib was from no powder, you have found a load that will not cycle the action and keyholes on the target. Why would you want to load more of that load?
Good question! The answer is that it's a secret, but if you knew the answer, you'd understand. If I had gobs of cash lying around to do the testing the right way, I wouldn't be doing this. On the other hand, shooting subsonic loads that cycle the action is fun. And I was getting subsonic loads to cycle the action, just not that particular load.