Evening Pipe
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I want to know how you managed to get that lot to float on water long enough to take a picture :D
Regards,
Jay.
Regards,
Jay.
Exactly.
It takes a lot more heat, sustained heat, than tobacco ashes to set off a primer. I've thrown live rounds into a burn barrel to test this, and it takes a surprisingly long time for the round to cook off. Even then, I don't know it is the primer or the powder going off. Also, an unconstrained round, a round that isn't chambered, poses very little danger. Projectile velocity is damned near nil (the projectile has to be in a barrel, gasses trapped and expanding behind it as powder continues to burn the length of the tube), although you might get a nasty powder burn if you were holding it.
I've made up a bunch of inert rounds for testing cycling, etc, but honestly using them as tampers would just take all the excitement out of it.
Oh, hell yes, and they still are. But I wonder when they were displaced as the mainstream cartridge.
I am making a few tampers from spent 410 shotgun shells. Perfect, IMO. Will post a pic when I get one done. I am using a bit of Box Elder branch for the 'slug' in the case.
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