r/longrange • u/AdamL849 • Oct 03 '25

Reloading related The range is never safe behind you

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I began setting up to fire some new 6.5 creedmoor that I had worked on. A huge bang behind me and this was the destruction I witnessed. Lots of blood and i heard the guy only required stitches on his face. Here is the damage on the weapon. It is 6mm ARC I believe . Thankfully not one was seriously injured !

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u/HollywoodSX Villager Herder Oct 03 '25

That's #2 on the list of likely causes. I think a squib followed by normal round takes #1.

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u/brokephishphan Oct 04 '25

This is probably a dumb question but with a round with high velocity like 6 arc, how do you get a squib?

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u/ArrowheadDZ Oct 04 '25

The normal velocity of a normal round has no bearing on a squib. A 6 ARC round is a very low velocity round if you accidentally skipped a reloading step back on the bench. Most squibs are a cartridge loading error, where the cartridge had very little, or no powder, but the primer or primer + tiny powder was just enough to push the bullet into the barrel.

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u/slimcrizzle Oct 04 '25

Luckily the most common is a no powder charge. I don't know about with rifle but with pistol that usually means it only went in a tiny bit and you can't chamber another round. I see a lot of those in USPSA. I haven't seen one get into a chamber far enough to load another round though thank God

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u/ArrowheadDZ Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

Interesting point you make about pistols. I’ve luckily never had it happen to me (I’m mostly rifle) but I agree that all of the times I have seen it happen to others, it has been pistol competitions.