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Originally Posted by Jent P Mitchell III
So do what you want to do but do not say that you were not warned.
Do not take just my word for all of this. Search the internet for stories of 7625. Ask around on other gun club websites. Safe Shooting To You All, Jent.......jentpmitchell@msn.com
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Jent, detonation is at best a controversial phenom because the action of the load doing what you state in your post has never been observed in a scientific manner in a pistol, rifle or shotgun. Alliant when they were in business, had a pamphlet about using reduced loads in pistols, they addressed the issue of detonation, their result, Alliant could not create a detonation in their tests. The NRA commissioned H.P. White Lab to prove or disprove detonation could occur in a 38 special (because a lot of 38 specs were blowing up), they tried to do it and they could not make a detonation happen. What they did find is double and triple charges of fast powder were needed to damage the revolver in their tests. Their conclusion, reports of detonation were actually the result of an overload.
Detonation remains a theory, it has not be proven in spite of attempts to create it, since it has not been proven it remains a myth.
Damage to a gun is caused by overpressure (or material failure of the barrel/receiver). Overpressure can be created by a barrel obstruction, too much powder, or the wrong powder.
On your other points, yes I have now been warned about 7625, but you have been warned to not shoot nitro powder loads in composite barrels, if you ask around on many other websites and gun clubs you'll get the same advice, don't do it, yet you shoot damascus and twist barrel guns with nitro loads. So what are such warnings really worth?