| DoubleD |
| (.400 member) |
| 28/06/06 08:25 AM |
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Re: Dacron or Kapok?
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In reply to:
The ejected Dacron out of my 450/400 3 inch using RL-15 looks as if it can be reloaded again. It is not burnt and there isn't a "snow shower" of white drifting across the range!
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I always used cotton in my NFB 450-400 3 1/4 loads and my schuetzen loads. Never a problem but it will come out in clumps. There is always a space between the cotton and the breach loaded bullet in my schuetzen rifles. Never a ringed chamber and accuracy is exceptional. In my Rigby I make sure there is no space between the filler and the projectile.
Exactlly my worry. This is a bottle necked case. The filler is filling the 50 cal size case body and being compressed even more trying to go out the 45 cal neck under pressure when fired. I was very concerned that that the Dacron was staying intact and slugging up as it was extruding through the funnel of the case neck.
It appeared the Dacron may have been be doing just that. I got neck stretching firing compressed dacron filler out of the bottle neck cases.
There was no indication that the Kapok was slugging.
I also briefly tested cotton balls. I was asked by the range owner to not use cotton balls on his range, especially in the summer because they set grass fires. The cotton balls came out intact also.
Then there is pufflon, but that is something all together different...that definitely slugs!