45-70 shooter wrote:Like you, I find the internet to be a very useful tool if used with the care any tool should be.
The "pressure spike" stuff is all over the net regarding high power handgun and short rifle cartridges. It appears to have replaced the fear of reduced loads of slow burners like 4831 that were also reputed to blow up guns left and right. Neither have ever been documented with independent third part tests like the powder makers and those who publish accredited reloading books do.
Being a simple man, I believe that if a current Barnes, Nosler, Sierra, Hornady, Alliant, IMR, Hodgdon (need I go on ?) says a given load is a safe starting point with the EXACT components specified, it will not take apart any gun, in good repair, designed for that cartridge.
In 5+ decades of shooting I have seen three blown up guns. An 03A3 30-06 shot with 198 gr Ball D German machine gun loads in 8X57, a 12 bore damascus Belgian hardware store double, loose as a goose and barrels pitted to "He double l" shot with 2& 3/4" magnum buckshot. Both cost the shooter a couple of fingers. Last was a nice BP colt SAA that the dolt decided to try Elmer Keith 45 Colt loads in. Top of cylinder and top strap went into orbit. Shooting glassed avoided anything but new freckles.
If you read it on the net and it doesn't square with what people who have the tools and knowledge, consider it incorrect.
After all, right on the net, you can find thousands who believe in Aliens among us (not Mexicans), that Bush the younger blew up the WTC so he could start a war to enrich the VPs pals and that Obama will soon outrank Lincoln as out greatest President..
We helped win WW II with only 140,000,000 Americans and now with over 300,000,000 we can handle a bunch of rag heads who bury children alive.
Welcome to Rome ...... it's 470 AD.
Wait a minute now!!
I can handle all of your assertions, except about Aliens. I assume from another Planet.
.."To Know our TSD is to know that Aliens Exists"!!
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Texas Sheep Dawg