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04-17-2018, 09:04 PM | #3 | ||||||
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I have witnessed this twice by other shooters and have it happened to myself.
all times were pierced primers. One gun developed wood damage as a result of the above. the other two had pre existing wood issues which is what allowed the gas to escape down thru the trigger area vs blowing out a quarter panel/ stock head panel. good idea to send her off for inspection/ repair. the shells were all cheap shells but all had pierced primers. |
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04-17-2018, 09:09 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Dang Bruce. Hard to believe that much pressure could came back into the action thru the firing pin. That is crazy.
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04-17-2018, 09:14 PM | #5 | ||||||
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The trigger area of the action is open to allow gasses to get there on all hammerless Parkers. Regardless of prior wood issues or not.
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04-17-2018, 09:37 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Brian,
Not questioning you. But if so why do some blow out quarter panels when they pierce primers. Again not arguing. |
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04-17-2018, 09:38 PM | #7 | |||||||
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When I was kid lifeguarding at a pool a storm came up and lightening struck the chain link fence. Pyrotenics with sparks flying all around the pool. Once was enough an luckily no one was injured and we had just gotten kids out. Two weeks later another thunderstorm comes up and we also get everyone under shelter away from the fences and sure enough the fence got hit again. Very strange given the terrain and all the tall trees by that pool for that to happen. Sorry to hear that happened and glad nothing happened. I guess shooting gloves do make sense after all. Bruce you need to go buy a lottery ticket. |
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04-17-2018, 09:45 PM | #8 | ||||||
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I would be very suspicious of the Winchester economy shells. The plastic is very prone to splitting. Last summer my son had some and in one box two shells were split clear to the top of the steel head. Perhaps further but we did not dissect them. One was so bad it would not chamber. These were factory loaded shells. I would not be surprised if there was much more than primer gas at play here.
Once I tried to reload some because the hulls are so easy to acquire. I quickly quit as many split longitudinally when inserting the wad. Those hulls/shells are terrible. |
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04-17-2018, 09:45 PM | #9 | |||||||
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Good question, and i was just about to go back and edit my post to explain this. Earlier hammerless Parkers have hammers that have, what i like to call, a “horn” on the rear of them. This design required a good amount of wood to be removed behind the hammers which would create a good sized pocket in the wood behind each hammer in order for the hammers to draw back. Later on in hammerless manufacture (in the late teens i beleive), this “horn” was removed from the hamers. This made the hammers easier to manufacture and also the head of the stock easier to inlet. It eliminated those large packets from the stock head. I would speculate that any stock cheeks getting blown off (i have seen examples of this about a dozen times, and repaired a few) are on earlier guns that have the inletted pocket. And when it comes to the cheap wallyworld winchester/federal shells... you get what you pay for.
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04-17-2018, 09:48 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Thanks Brian. That makes sense.
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