Cartridge brass as powder measures

[Smokin6Gun]

Probly caught that spark cause some Russian and Chinese cases are steel cases. If brass they wouldn't have jumped a spark.

 

[WV_Hillbilly]

I thought it had already been proved that a static electricity spark couldn't ignite black powder?

Didn't I try that and report on it already...?

 

[Brawdhead]

What they have found is the carbon in the powder conducts the static electricity so that it travels along the outer surface layer of powder without generating any heat.

Static electricity stays on the outer surface of an object regardless of whether it conducts. Electrons don't like each other and try to move as far apart as possible.

Evenso, I wouldn't expect BP to be able to hold much of a charge anyway.

Without heat, the powder does not ignite.

Static electricity doesn't generate heat.

But grounding a static charge can generate sparks.

To me, all that means is that the powder itself won't likely hold enough of a charge to cause a spark. Hey, neither will gasoline, usually.

But if something near it sparks from a built-up static charge, it could conceivably ignite, no?

Dan

 

[Juggernaut]

Don't have a pistol stand, don't have a flask with measured spout, so I had to improvise while on the range today. Putting the revolver down, measuring the powder, picking the revolver up and pouring powder into the chamber, etc, was not going to work. So, I picked up six 9mm cases and used them... filled all six with powder, picked up the revolver and dumped powder into each chamber, set the wads, etc.

Turns out a 9mm Luger casing is 15 grains. A .40 S&W is about 22 grains. Anybody else measured up any other calibers?

Excellent Idea I took 45 long colt and .44 magnum cases and cut them to the size I needed. I took an ingraving tool and etched the grain on the side.
Juggernaut

 

[Toomuch_36]

Probly caught that spark cause some Russian and Chinese cases are steel cases. If brass they wouldn't have jumped a spark.

Yes, as I stated in my origional reply to this thread the shooter in question had been using 7.62x39 Russian casses.

Toomuch
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