I've been trying for a long time to find DOCUNENTED evidence that a pointed bullet caused another round to fire in a tubluar magazine of the Winchester Model 94 or 64 So far I have not found one documented instance. I am beginning to believe it is all hear say or an old wives tale that pointed bullets should not be used in a tubular magazine!
If anyone has a DOCUMENTED instance post it up so everyone can see!
I'm with you!
I personally do not think that recoil would set off a mag tube detonation. However dropping the gun or other more tramatic event I could imagine doing it. However I have heard of no documentned event,. Nor have I heard of any solid documented research into this possibility.
I wonder if Hornady did any research when develooping thier new LE ammunition? One would think that they would have to have investigated the effects of just how hard or how soft they must make the gummie tips to ward off this mag tube exxplsion worry. I wonder about the gummie tips getting too cold and hard or even if age will harden the tips to being too hard. For example. What will happen with 10 year old LE ammo? Will the plasticizers in the gummie tip dry out and make the point hard? Will this be too hard?
I also wonder if they did the research and found that this whole mag-tube detonation theory isjust that, a theory. But they obviously could not come out with this finding as it would have totally eliminated the market advantage and marketing of a revolutionary "pointed" bullet for tube fed lever actions.
Why can the remington pointed soft point core lockt bullet work in both the 30-30 and 35 Rem and not cause mag tube detonation? They look pretty pointed to me with only a very small flat spot at the very tip.
I would really like to see some real research done especially on the 336 Marlin as to just what it would take to get a mag-tube explosion. Maybe a minimum flat lead metplat surface area can be determined for the various calibers. But this may not be sufficient because of handloaders doing +p work.
Maybe this would make for a great episode for the Discovery Channel "Myth Busters" program!