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Originally Posted by canoe on the yukon
Alk8944,
Guns were being blown up with reduced loads of W296/H110?Where and when?
W296 and H110 give poor burning qualities when downloaded too much.Squib loads can result.Guns blown up?Where and when?Be specific.I don't think you can.
About warnings not to download,I can very vividly remember Winchester advising not to download and that was 40 years ago.What sources of information are you drawing from?
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First, there have been articles in the firearms press for many years related to destruction of revolvers under unexplanable circumstances when using H-110/296. Specific articles, I don't keep magazines mostly so can't cite specific articles. There was something written about this in just about all the magazines by well respected authors and there were many attempts to explain what was happening. Terms were created to express the theories, such as "Pressure Excursions" and "Secondary Explosion Effect". These articles appeared mostly from the mid 80s through the 90s. If you don't recall these either you weren't reading gun magazines during that period or just plain weren't paying attention.
So far as Winchester advising against downloading "40 years ago" what powder are you talking about? 296 did not even exist until 1980 or so!
Just because you don't choose to believe it doesn't mean it wasn't happening.
Here are some links to articles about the subject:
http://www.reloadammo.com/liteload.htm
http://www.gunfighter.com/cgi-bin/bb...cgi?read=47714
http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/i.../t-142220.html
Not all specific to H-110/296, but the same issue.