How Wrong am I?????????????
Hi guys; This may sound VERY stupid, which it probably is, but I need some Expert advice. I was going to go sight in this morning, and I got out the rifles and my reloads. .243. I was looking at the boxes of shells, and i picked out my 32gr H4895, and 100gr Sierra SP. Then I saw 2 boxes loaded with 45gr IMR4064, with 100gr Sierra SP. I went with the 32gr H4895. My book says Max 38gr IMR4064. I'm going to pull the bullets on the 45gr and reload them with 37gr. What would have happened if I went with the 45gr?
Your help will be invaluable to me. Where I got the 45gr IMR4064 I have no idea.
As always Thank you very much for your expert advice. Mike
Your help will be invaluable to me. Where I got the 45gr IMR4064 I have no idea.
As always Thank you very much for your expert advice. Mike
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Depends on the rifle. Maybe nothing. Maybe a flat primer. Maybe a pierced primer. Maybe a case seperation or brass flow into the bolt face, with possible extractor damage. Probalby wouldn't have blown the rifle from 1 or 2 shots but you surely would have noticed something amiss.
Even fitting that much 4064 in a .243 is hard to imagine. I wonder if it is really 45, or if you mislabled it?
Either way, pull down and see.0 -
Jonk
Pulled 2 bullets from random. You were right. Mislabeled the boxes. Put on my scale and they should have been labeled 35gr. Thank you for your input. I feel a lot better now. Mike0 -
Seems like I do stuff like that, too. Trim the cases, seat the primers very carefully, weigh every powder charge, seat the bullets to the last thousandth, and then screw up writing the label! 0 -
That is what most bullet pullers get used for. 0 -
Weigh them and see what you've got. Make one up that uses the powder load you used.
As you can see here, that is how accidents happen. You get sidetracked in the middle of a batch of cases and one, light bullet, load runs mentally into the heavy bullet load you are using. The resulting damage could be phenominal or not much. Re-check your sources and if you start pulling check the load. Maybe you wrote it down wrong afterwards, maybe you flat out loaded 'er too hot. If you pull one and it's okay, think of any breaks you had while reloading that batch. Again, it's always during the breaks that the thinking gets mixed up. Maybe pull a couple more and if they weigh the right amount you probably just wrote the wrong number.
Or, you could be completely safe and pull them all.0 -
I've loaded 45 grains of IMR 4064 in 308 and it's a casefull compressed+. Best to always check, though. 0
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