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<blockquote data-quote="diggler1833" data-source="post: 3818932" data-attributes="member: 48072"><p>Yeah...I'd definitely be more concerned with someone else's handloads, specificallycharge weights. There are just as many nut-jobs behind a reloading bench as there are at a firing line. </p><p></p><p>I've shared the story over on the OKH website, but haven't here: My F-I-L has a S&W 66-2 that he is quite fond of. He was showing it to me one day and told me he was running one if "his buddies old handloads". I managed to get a hold of the cartridge container that thankfully still had the load data on it...</p><p></p><p>158gr SJHP over *18.0* grains of 2400... I'm not quite the savant to remember everything, but that charge seemed higher than a giraffe's ass. I checked and sure enough; that is a full 3.2gr over Alliant's listed max. I politely explained to my F-I-L what a proof load was, and told him he was essentially proofing his chambers with every shot. I even went so far as to sneak some factory Federal 158gr SJSP ammo into his revolver and politely place the overcharged rounds back in the box...</p><p></p><p>A couple months later I was cleaning his guns (wife will inherit them, so I don't mind). When I cleared his 66-2 before I started wiping it down, I saw that he had removed my factory stuff and replaced them with his buddies old pipe bombs...I mean "handloads" again. I did the swap again after wiping down the revolver...but this time I took all of the old handloads and chucked them way below my house in the woods...</p><p></p><p>Maybe two years later and we were burning below the house. Every few minutes a huge bang would go off, and it took me a bit before I remembered why. I managed to convinced my worried wife that it was just because we had some sandstone rocks down there. However I certainly puller her back up by the house <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😄" title="😄" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f604.png" />.</p><p></p><p>For me to trust someone else's handloads in one of my guns takes a lot of familiarity with that person.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diggler1833, post: 3818932, member: 48072"] Yeah...I'd definitely be more concerned with someone else's handloads, specificallycharge weights. There are just as many nut-jobs behind a reloading bench as there are at a firing line. I've shared the story over on the OKH website, but haven't here: My F-I-L has a S&W 66-2 that he is quite fond of. He was showing it to me one day and told me he was running one if "his buddies old handloads". I managed to get a hold of the cartridge container that thankfully still had the load data on it... 158gr SJHP over *18.0* grains of 2400... I'm not quite the savant to remember everything, but that charge seemed higher than a giraffe's ass. I checked and sure enough; that is a full 3.2gr over Alliant's listed max. I politely explained to my F-I-L what a proof load was, and told him he was essentially proofing his chambers with every shot. I even went so far as to sneak some factory Federal 158gr SJSP ammo into his revolver and politely place the overcharged rounds back in the box... A couple months later I was cleaning his guns (wife will inherit them, so I don't mind). When I cleared his 66-2 before I started wiping it down, I saw that he had removed my factory stuff and replaced them with his buddies old pipe bombs...I mean "handloads" again. I did the swap again after wiping down the revolver...but this time I took all of the old handloads and chucked them way below my house in the woods... Maybe two years later and we were burning below the house. Every few minutes a huge bang would go off, and it took me a bit before I remembered why. I managed to convinced my worried wife that it was just because we had some sandstone rocks down there. However I certainly puller her back up by the house 😄. For me to trust someone else's handloads in one of my guns takes a lot of familiarity with that person. [/QUOTE]
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