06-18-2011, 06:25 AM
There's a lot to be said for the strength of a bolt gun when an even stronger man shoves that bolt forward, then cams the handle down. A buddy of mine who volunteers at a local public shooting range brought me a piece of brass back one day. It looked really funky, with a shoulder and no neck. Holding it up at eye height, he calmly asked...
"Do you know what that is?"
My response: "What in the...?"
"That's a .308-.270..."
"What the...?"
"I heard a big boom from a guy on the line, who then couldn't get his bolt handle open. We finally used a mallet to pound the handle open, and it was everything we could do to get his action to extract the case...then this came out. He had jammed a .308 cartridge into his .270 Win rifle's chamber, and it actually forced the .30 cal bullet downrange, with no damage to the blaster."
The .308 bullet had fit right into the leade of the .270, and the charge forced it into the lands and out the barrel, with significant recoil. He's lucky that sucker didn't let go on him. The .308 neck filled nicely into the .270 shoulder, fire-forming a case with no neck-just a weird-looking shoulder and a hole at the end.
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"Do you know what that is?"
My response: "What in the...?"
"That's a .308-.270..."
"What the...?"
"I heard a big boom from a guy on the line, who then couldn't get his bolt handle open. We finally used a mallet to pound the handle open, and it was everything we could do to get his action to extract the case...then this came out. He had jammed a .308 cartridge into his .270 Win rifle's chamber, and it actually forced the .30 cal bullet downrange, with no damage to the blaster."
The .308 bullet had fit right into the leade of the .270, and the charge forced it into the lands and out the barrel, with significant recoil. He's lucky that sucker didn't let go on him. The .308 neck filled nicely into the .270 shoulder, fire-forming a case with no neck-just a weird-looking shoulder and a hole at the end.
LRRPF52