CatShooter
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Originally Posted By: varminter185Hmmm, ive read it in numerous reloading manuals... is that just an effort to reduce liability?
There are a lot of things in loading manuals that are pure, unadulterated cow poopie.
In my old (#4) Nosler manual, it says that loading 5.56 (223) Lake City brass is dangerous because it is so heavy (thick) that pressures are dangerous.
Well, Lake City brass is actually on the light side of the brass pool. So I called Nosler, and asked to speak to the "head ballistician". This bored dip-stick gets on the phone and I ask him if he ever weighed a 5,56 case. "No", so I asked him where he got that, and he said a friend told it to him. So I suggested that he weigh a few different 5.56 and 223 cases, and said good bye.
Some manuals say that bullets travel in a spiral helix - well, if you do the math on a 30 cal, 175gr SMK, at 2,700 fps with a 10" twist, the force required to keep the bullet from flying off at a 90° angle (sideways) is over 15,000 pounds (Gasp!!). Bullets do NOT travel in a spiral helix. They travel straight for the whole arc, and do not go nose down in a tangent.
The head of ballistics at one "Famous" manual publisher is a hobby level loader, and his answers to customer's questions are no better than they would get by asking the guy behind the gun counter at the local Cabelas.
There are a lot of things in loading manuals that are pure, unadulterated cow poopie.
In my old (#4) Nosler manual, it says that loading 5.56 (223) Lake City brass is dangerous because it is so heavy (thick) that pressures are dangerous.
Well, Lake City brass is actually on the light side of the brass pool. So I called Nosler, and asked to speak to the "head ballistician". This bored dip-stick gets on the phone and I ask him if he ever weighed a 5,56 case. "No", so I asked him where he got that, and he said a friend told it to him. So I suggested that he weigh a few different 5.56 and 223 cases, and said good bye.
Some manuals say that bullets travel in a spiral helix - well, if you do the math on a 30 cal, 175gr SMK, at 2,700 fps with a 10" twist, the force required to keep the bullet from flying off at a 90° angle (sideways) is over 15,000 pounds (Gasp!!). Bullets do NOT travel in a spiral helix. They travel straight for the whole arc, and do not go nose down in a tangent.
The head of ballistics at one "Famous" manual publisher is a hobby level loader, and his answers to customer's questions are no better than they would get by asking the guy behind the gun counter at the local Cabelas.
