Comments on: Handloads: Will Your Gun Blow Up? http://www.gundigest.com/gun-blogs/wayne-van-zwoll-on-firearms/handloads-will-your-gun-blow-up Expert advice from the world's leading authorities on gun values, gun prices, gun history, gunsmithing, shooting and tactical gear Thu, 23 May 2013 06:25:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: bhp0http://www.gundigest.com/gun-blogs/wayne-van-zwoll-on-firearms/handloads-will-your-gun-blow-up/comment-page-1#comment-15481 bhp0 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:21:57 +0000 http://www.gundigest.com/?p=167961#comment-15481 Many people (including gun writers) are often unaware that the 1917 U.S. Enfield rifles also blew up from a bad lot of steel received at the Eddystone arsenal (the lowest quality arsenal of the 3 arsenal’s that made these guns. Mr. Ferris in his book “The 1917 Enfield” documents this.

In Ohio one of the ordnance officers recommended that no U.S. 1917 Enfields be sold to the public. Mr. Ferris had 11 Enfields sitting in his rack and while writing the book noticed that all 11 rifles were of different overall lengths. Parts interchangeability was bad as the gun was largely produced with no blueprints, only drawings.

]]> By: bhp0http://www.gundigest.com/gun-blogs/wayne-van-zwoll-on-firearms/handloads-will-your-gun-blow-up/comment-page-1#comment-15391 bhp0 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:33:18 +0000 http://www.gundigest.com/?p=167961#comment-15391 What is really useful is being able to create ammo that is not made anymore. This is not for the beginner. A good example is the 8mm Siamese Mauser. No surplus military ammo was ever imported for this gun thank God and this prevented the cheap skates from destroying all these beautiful guns with mint bores with unsafe and inaccurate corrosive military surplus ammo. Hurray, as we now have most of these guns with mint bores.

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