...Here's what a real expert wrote:
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� Catastrophic failures of overloaded rifles may occur with either the first over-hot round, or they may occur only after years of repeated use of over-hot loads. In the latter type of failure, the rifle has appeared "safe" with these loads, clear up until the time one round "caused" the failure "for no apparent reason."
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� The maximum safe limit for many rifles and cartridges is well below the level of peak pressures that many cases can handle without any discernible or measurable indication of excess...
Read ye all and know that this is true wisdom.
You can run most any mechanical device - rifle, car engine, or can opener - beyond it's design specs once, or twice, or even twice times 100 without seeing anything wrong. But keep doing it and someday something's gonna blow. If your can opener explodes you've just got tomato soup to clean up. When your rifle blows, well, that ain't tomato soup on the bench.
From a cost/benefit view, there is really no justification for pushing a rifle, espeically when bigger rifles are readily available. The most benefit you get is a few more fps, a few more grains of bullet, and you're betting that you don't pay the cost with your face or other body parts with every shot.
But the results of the eventual failures do make for some cool pictures.
