SierraHunter
Bullshop jr
Today, I was working on a bragging rights target, trying to shoot a little bitty group with my Remington 700 in 6x45 with the RCBS 96gn Worked all day prepping cases, weighing bullets, Yada Yada. Was working on the load, and thought I finally had it, and went to fire the final group and fired one and big puff of fire out of the action. Blew the floor plate open, and my extractor off.
So. The load at this point was 20.0 grains of IMR 4895, with a CCI #450 SRM primer. Case was a LC case (one of five that I've been using all day).
After I got the case out of the chamber (it easily pushed out with a cleaning rod) I measured everything on it and it measured the same as every other case I've ever fired in this gun. The primer was gone, but I tried pushing a new primer in with my thumb to see if the pocket was loose and could not. Using a priming tools it seemed to take the same pressure as usual to press a new primer in.
What do you guys think happened? I don't think I was anywhere close to over pressure. I did have the bullets PC, and sized to .2455" (same I've been shooting all day). Could it have been a bad primer?
So. The load at this point was 20.0 grains of IMR 4895, with a CCI #450 SRM primer. Case was a LC case (one of five that I've been using all day).
After I got the case out of the chamber (it easily pushed out with a cleaning rod) I measured everything on it and it measured the same as every other case I've ever fired in this gun. The primer was gone, but I tried pushing a new primer in with my thumb to see if the pocket was loose and could not. Using a priming tools it seemed to take the same pressure as usual to press a new primer in.
What do you guys think happened? I don't think I was anywhere close to over pressure. I did have the bullets PC, and sized to .2455" (same I've been shooting all day). Could it have been a bad primer?