Bavarianbrit
Well-Known Member
I was over in the USA and needed some .284 Win ammunition as it is hard to find normally.
Picked up (three old stock boxes???) after my return I needed to have leadfree bullets for a driven hunt thats coming up. So I removed the soft point bullets which had grey showing on the tips "lead corrosion". And one case was only half full of powder (hello!!!) I then measured all the powder charges and they varied between 58 & 60.5 grains and all my loading manuals show a powder charge of averaging 46.5 grains with normal powders which set off the alarm bells.
I could not identify the powder and so I have redone the loads with 3031 powder and I will use the old powder as fertilzer.
Moral of this tale seems to me to be, not to trust the ammo sellers in US gun shows unless the packages are more modern and they still have their seals undamaged.
My rifle might have blown up next to my face in a worst case scenario.
Muir have you any experiences to add?
Picked up (three old stock boxes???) after my return I needed to have leadfree bullets for a driven hunt thats coming up. So I removed the soft point bullets which had grey showing on the tips "lead corrosion". And one case was only half full of powder (hello!!!) I then measured all the powder charges and they varied between 58 & 60.5 grains and all my loading manuals show a powder charge of averaging 46.5 grains with normal powders which set off the alarm bells.
I could not identify the powder and so I have redone the loads with 3031 powder and I will use the old powder as fertilzer.
Moral of this tale seems to me to be, not to trust the ammo sellers in US gun shows unless the packages are more modern and they still have their seals undamaged.
My rifle might have blown up next to my face in a worst case scenario.
Muir have you any experiences to add?