Re: Exploding paperweight costs teacher his hand

From: Everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2006 - 05:04:18 PDT

 I do not know much about power of primers, from personal experience cap on
muzzle loader blew rammed ball out for a friend of mine that had patched and
rammed ball into a 58 cal. rifle before he put powder in.

I am sure others remember from basic training when instructions put fuze
from hand grenade under steel helment and just fuse blew helment many feet
in the air.

E
> Could a primer only have taken off part of his hand? Anyone know? I
> can't help but think that a full load would have shook things up more with
> maybe some students up front catching some of the blast. I'd imagine even
> a primer only blast would jackhammer a guy's hand pretty bad in a 40mm
> round. Assuming the primers are proportionately larger; I recall the 88
> casings I've seen had huge primers.

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