Hondo 60
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I had a 44mag round act very strangely, strangely indeed!
Rather than the resounding BOOM, it very meekly went .. pop.
My first thought was a squib.
Sure enough the bullet left the case just enough to jam up the works. :banghead:
I used a dowel, & gently pounded it back in the case & stuffed it in my pocket.
When I got home I used a kinetic hammer to remove the bullet.
Lo & behold, when I opened the hammer a bunch of unburned powder (not 1/2 burned, but completely unburned) fell out with the bullet!?!?!?
The powder looked exactly like the stuff in the original bottle.
So, I hadn't created a squib.
This makes no sense to me.
I didn't weigh the powder that was in the hammer, it spilled all over, (I wasn't expecting powder) so it may or may not have been the full 8 gr of Universal.
But there was quite a bit.
240gr Berry's FP, Starline Case, S&B LP primer, OAL 1.605
Rather than the resounding BOOM, it very meekly went .. pop.
My first thought was a squib.
Sure enough the bullet left the case just enough to jam up the works. :banghead:
I used a dowel, & gently pounded it back in the case & stuffed it in my pocket.
When I got home I used a kinetic hammer to remove the bullet.
Lo & behold, when I opened the hammer a bunch of unburned powder (not 1/2 burned, but completely unburned) fell out with the bullet!?!?!?
The powder looked exactly like the stuff in the original bottle.
So, I hadn't created a squib.
This makes no sense to me.
I didn't weigh the powder that was in the hammer, it spilled all over, (I wasn't expecting powder) so it may or may not have been the full 8 gr of Universal.
But there was quite a bit.
240gr Berry's FP, Starline Case, S&B LP primer, OAL 1.605