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Offline badshotlal

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old standby
« on: February 16, 2009, 03:52:42 PM »
Good evening to you all ;D,

  Today I heard a grisly tale from a firearm dealer.  He has absolutely no faith in one of the oldest, if not the oldest, name in reloading data, optics, etc.  He has actually had a turkey choke blow out on his 1100, and knows of another case where the fellow had serious face lacerations due to data in their manual.
  Now, it would be totally unfair to name the company.  Generally these type accidents are chalked up to operator error.  That coud be the case here.  But he said he has heard of other mishaps using their data/
  Now I try to stay informed on what is going on, and if there was a major issue with this company, I would probably read it -- or maybe not.  Does anyone reading this post had their faith shook as I have.
  I am trying -- emphasize "trying"! -- to work up a four-buck load to bust some coyotes.  And one of the loads, in fact, actually two, were from their latest publication.
  Would appreciate any input.  But I do believe this is past the "you did it. no, you did it", thing.  And there is something working in the lawsuit world, from what I understood.
  Hope you all have had a good winter.  My 'youte count still stands at zero, but hope springs eternal!!! ;D

God Bless


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Re: old standby
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2009, 05:37:33 PM »
I've had serious issues with a company that is supposed to be the last word in shotshell reloading, so I don't use their manuals or anything else they produce. I know that a couple of their older manuals had .30-30 loads that would reduce a '94 to junk. Typos? Maybe.

Another company just recently issued a warning against using some of their published loads, loads that had been around for 10 years or more. The powder in question evidently didn't always behave like they thought it did. I just did some extreme cold shooting with the same powder in a .357. All I found out was that Blue Dot isn't worth warm dog spit at 26 below zero, which is what I wanted to know.

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Re: old standby
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2009, 11:54:51 AM »
Funny. I've used that same company's Green Dot for years without any issues. Mind you, I have a deep respect for the use of shoulder come Monday morning, and prefer loading my target & field loads light. Anyone pushing magnum loads without double checking powder & shot charges on a quality scale is asking for trouble. The note about Blue Dot being temperature sensitive is very old news.
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Re: old standby
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2009, 03:33:25 AM »
Errors do occur in reloading manuals. That's another good reason to have several manuals and cross reference them before starting load development.
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