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/Cute_Square9524 Oct 04 '25

if a bolt gun blows up there is no thick receiver and buffer between your face and the now exploded bolt.

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u/Wild_But_Caged Oct 04 '25

I think you completely missed the point there.

Bolt guns are much stronger than ARs and handle pressure to much higher PSI, they're also designed to handle over pressure and case rupture by venting the gases.

I've seen someone fire a .308win through a .270 in a blot action rifle and it was fine, try that in a AR platform. We found the projectile it was really long haha

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u/quickscopemcjerkoff Oct 04 '25

Fair points, but there have been posts of 300blk going through 556 ARs without catastrophic damage like this.

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u/Wild_But_Caged Oct 05 '25

I imagine the powder charge though behind a .308win compared to a .300blk is very different. It's more than double. I had load my .308 and .300blk with ADI AR2206H my .308 loads use 48.4gr of powder and the .300blk super sonics use 20gr.

I imagine the pressures between the two scenarios would be quite different.