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Post by Iweetodid on Sept 12, 2021 14:56:46 GMT -5
I was wondering if you should crush pellets after they are in your barrel or not. I am using 3 t7 pellets in my Remington 700 ml and am getting over 2,000 fps on the crony with 300 grain saboted bullet. When I crush the pellets down with the bullet, I get a huge amount of recoil and 2260 fps? Rifle handles it well but not my shoulder. I wonder what kind of pressure that would be generating?
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Post by encore50a on Sept 12, 2021 16:57:25 GMT -5
NO. Do not crush the pellets. It creates over pressure problems as you witnessed by the amount of recoil.. Seat your sabot/bullet or bullet snuggly on the pellets. Do not crush them.
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Post by reloader22 on Sept 12, 2021 17:13:33 GMT -5
They are designed to not be crushed. You increase the surface area and burn rate by crushing them. There is probably a safety factor built in in case someone actually does this by accident. Also, from a consistency factor you cannot guarantee that you crush them the same every time so there is no good reason to do this.
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Post by Iweetodid on Sept 12, 2021 18:58:46 GMT -5
I only did this because a friend said that there would be air space around them. I didn't do it again because the lump between my eyes still hurts LOL. It must have created one heck of a lot of pressure as well because the velocity went way high. 2260 fps.
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Post by ourway77 on Oct 12, 2021 6:11:42 GMT -5
Never crush pellets use loose powder I never use pellets
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