Safety precautions. A strong charge. Part 2
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With the advent of new, more powerful powders "Pheasant", "Berkut", and especially "Bars", "Sunar", "VUSD" and the Ukrainian "Kruk", which require more careful and careful handling when equipping cartridges, the number of damaged weapons has increased dramatically. For example, VUSD gunpowder, which should have been weighed with an accuracy of 0.01 g (Sokol gunpowder with an accuracy of 0.05 g), was measured by some domestic hunters out of habit...
Nowadays, the problem of incorrectly equipping hunting cartridges is not as relevant as it used to be, since most shooters still use high-quality factory ammunition, but some hunters still continue to equip cartridges on their own, often with negative consequences for their weapons and their health.
In the spring of this year, a resident of the Obukhov district contacted the workshop where I work. His son, having taken his father's IZH-26 rifle from the closet without permission, went with friends to "shoot crows." What kind of cartridges they used for this purpose remains a mystery, but the chamber (fortunately for the right barrel) turned out to be torn lengthwise, and a piece of it bent to the side. The owner of the gun seriously asked to lighten the barrel and weld the rupture site.…
By the way, when using a cartridge with an inappropriate charge, it is usually the breech of the barrel that is destroyed.
Another result of careless handling of weapons. In this case, dirt got into the barrel of the Beretta (and then, unfortunately, the ducks swooped down...). As can be seen from the photo, even the camouflage coloring did not save the gun.
The appearance of imported magnum, semimagnum, and even supermagnum cartridges in recent years has brought confusion to the ranks of hunters in the post-Soviet space.
If many owners of old guns, especially French and Belgian-made ones with chambers 65 mm long, unknowingly or for other reasons fired cartridges with a seventy mm cartridge case (naturally, not metal, which simply would not fit into the chamber), then this led only to a slight increase in pressure in the bore and a deterioration in the combat of the gun.
The appearance of reinforced magnum cartridges with seventy-millimeter and seventy-six millimeter cartridges presented an additional danger, both for old guns and for modern ones that were not designed for the use of Magnum cartridges.
Generally speaking, the existing dependence — for normal firing with portable recoil, a shot shell equal to 1/96 of the weight of the gun is required — has not been canceled. This rule is pre—revolutionary: there is a shot spool per pound of shotgun. In Soviet times, there was a metric dependence of 1/100, but, to be honest, fractions were always poured a little more, except for lightweight charges for special hunts. Shells weighing 35-36 g were loaded with cartridges used in heavy guns. Now heavy guns are the lot of athletes, who shoot, by the way, with reduced projectiles. A promo code of 1xBet is a series of numbers and letters that you enter into a specified voucher box to get a good deal. If you want to know how to use 1xBet promo code free spins registration form to get a 100% welcome bonus up to 130$. You can input it during registration. There will be a field specifically for formulae to be entered so you can’t miss it. If you struggle to find it, use the live chat.