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Osage · March 10, 2012, 06:51 PM

Was helping my son test some 223 loads today. We were shooting the Midway 50 gr dogtown bullets over varget. One shot had a strange mid-air poof of smoke about 10 yards from the rifle. It was fairly large. Never saw that before. We were shooting through a chrono and that load for some reason was quite a bit faster. Did some unburned powder come out in a clump and burn mid-air? The load was 27 grains which fills the cart and is compressed. I checked my Lee manual and Hodgdon and both list 27.5 as the max.

March 10, 2012, 06:51 PM	#1
Osage Member Join Date: September 27, 2005 Location: Missouri Posts: 69	Mid Air Explosion? Was helping my son test some 223 loads today. We were shooting the Midway 50 gr dogtown bullets over varget. One shot had a strange mid-air poof of smoke about 10 yards from the rifle. It was fairly large. Never saw that before. We were shooting through a chrono and that load for some reason was quite a bit faster. Did some unburned powder come out in a clump and burn mid-air? The load was 27 grains which fills the cart and is compressed. I checked my Lee manual and Hodgdon and both list 27.5 as the max.