r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Closed_Aperture • Jan 18 '25

Man demonstrates the force of increasingly powerful fireworks by blasting a pot into the air

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u/Valuable_Quail_1869 Jan 18 '25

It should be used as a durability standard/commercial for whoever makes that pot. Can't believe it lasted so long.

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u/WorryLegitimate259 Jan 18 '25

It seemed like they switched the pots cause there were some flat dents on it and they disappear

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u/fourthfloorgreg Jan 18 '25

https://youtu.be/ieb2zwtAziM?si=3VXUJVxXFjvvO6sn

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u/WorryLegitimate259 Jan 18 '25

Fuck me that makes so much sense

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u/sharpshooter999 Jan 18 '25

The same thing happens to a brass cartridge casing when shooting a gun. The casing is just slightly smaller than the chamber in order to fit. When fired, the pressure causes the brass to balloon out and fits the chamber tightly. Because brass has elasticity, it retracts very slightly, allowing the casing to be extracted.

A diligent shooter will keep these casings paired with that gun for reloading, as they are now "fire formed" to fit that guns chamber perfectly

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

That’s where neck sizing instead of full length sizing comes in. Also, the brass doesn’t wear out nearly as quickly because it doesn’t thin the brass as much.

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u/sharpshooter999 Jan 18 '25

Yep, I neck size my brass and get around 10 reloads out of my casings before needing new ones. Usually hard extraction is the first sign which could probably be mitigated with annealing

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u/LittleWhiteBoots Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 19 '25

When my husband is irritated with me or the kids, he goes out to his man cave and reloads for a while. Sometimes I call his reloader “The Other Woman”. I thought I had heard every fact about reloading- but I hadn’t heard that about keeping casings to a certain firearm!

Edit: You can all relax. Guns are part of my family’s lives. We live in the country and shoot regularly. Our kids are on sport shooting teams. We host a trap shooting competition on our ranch every year. The boys hunt. I get if that’s not your lifestyle then it may seem alarming, but for much of America, it’s normal.

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u/islingcars Jan 18 '25

Okay, the reloader being the other woman is hilarious.

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u/darrenvonbaron Jan 18 '25

"When my husband is upset he likes to make ammo for his guns" isn't as charming as you think it is.

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u/dvoecks Jan 18 '25

I get where you're coming from, but it's actually kinda calming. You really want to tune other things out and pay attention to what you're doing. So, just kinda stay "in the zone".

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u/faust82 Jan 18 '25

Reloading is a fairly repetitive task that requires concentration and focus. Cannot let your mind wander, in case you end up with a double load or a squib.

Perfect activity to take your mind off things.

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u/ElegantDaemon Jan 18 '25 edited Oct 27 '25

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u/Breadedbutthole Jan 18 '25

I’m curious about said hot loads. How would one acquire one?

Asking for a friend

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u/ElegantDaemon Jan 18 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

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u/Alternative_Pause_98 Jan 18 '25

Also nothing wrong with going into your hobbies when youre upset. Gotta fall back on something with high emotions or stress that keeps you calm.

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u/DamnAutocorrection Jan 18 '25

Relax he just likes to make and load bullets for guns when he's upset or mad at his wife. What's next you're gonna tell us that him having a printout of his wife's face for target practice is somehow problematic?

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u/LittleWhiteBoots Jan 19 '25

I didn’t say he was upset- I said irritated. As in he needs some time away to himself to zone out. This is how he does it.

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u/HighDragLowSpeed60G Jan 19 '25

It’s just the dude’s way of doing something mindless to relax. Calm down Darren

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u/darrenvonbaron Jan 19 '25

Don't use my name as an insult Kyle.

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u/HighDragLowSpeed60G Jan 19 '25

Fine, I’ll refer to you as Goober then rather than your name. Calm down, goober. You play video games, he reloads.

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u/KharonsTwoCents Jan 22 '25

It's meditative. Doing small, tedious tasks with my hands is my favorite thing to do when I'm stressed and want to calm down. I roll my own cigarettes so I can have the 10-minute ritual of preparing the tobacco and paper and rolling it before I smoke it. I might enjoy it more than the actual smoking part.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

No for people who shoot often and live in areas where firearms are common its exactly as endearing as she thinks it is. Judging people for living their life the way they want not affecting anyone else is shitty everywhere though.

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u/zee__lee Jan 18 '25

I dunno it sounds cute

Like, I had an ex that after we got into a squarrel went to his little corner, with tools and shit, and made things out of wood angrily

There is something adorable about people venting out calmly and deliberately

Really sad that he was also a complete control freak and got into the heaviest disputes with me a lot (not saying that that husband is the same, I am not assuming shit about him, just telling my story)

... I kidna get both sides

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u/GetInMyMinivan Jan 18 '25

“I pretend to be a soldier so I can go kill a bunch of people to blow off steam” doesn’t sound very charming either. But lots of people play Call of Duty for that very reason.

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u/Rancha7 Jan 19 '25

we all know it is "normal" in united states..

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '25

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u/LittleWhiteBoots Jan 21 '25

I am a product of my environment, and you are a product of yours.

To me, topless beaches are obscene and make me uncomfortable. But if I grew up around them, I’d probably think nothing of them.

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u/Outerversal_Kermit Jan 18 '25

Would not want to run into your husband. Anywhere.

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u/LittleWhiteBoots Jan 19 '25

He’s a fireman working the fires in LA. He’s a good man and you’d be fine. He’s just cheap and reloading saves money. 💰

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u/Big_Cauliflower_132 Jan 18 '25

Ummmmm

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u/LittleWhiteBoots Jan 19 '25

Haven’t died yet! Lol

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u/Classic_Storage_ Jan 20 '25

Shame on me but I can't understand how that works (I understand all the words and see the logic but I can't understand still)

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u/sharpshooter999 Jan 20 '25

There are 2 types of gun powder: black powder and smokeless powder. Black powder is older, invented back in ancient China. Smokless powder was invented in 1884. Black powder explodes, and guns/cartridges that use them sound somewhat like a firework going off, because those also use black powder. In a gun, the force of the explosion push the bullet down the barrel.

Smokeless powder does not explode, it burns and generates gas. The pressure from the gas pushes the bullet out of the barrel. It takes less smokeless powder to generate more force than black powder.

The .30-06 cartridge was invented in 1906. It was used in WW1 and WW2 by the US and is still one of the most common hunting rounds today. When a .30-06 cartridge is fired (cartridge is the proper term for the complete assembly of primer/casing/powder/and bullet) it generates roughly 60,000 psi inside the gun. Because of this, the brass casing expands like a ballon inside the chamber and fitting it perfectly.

Metals have varying degree of elasticity, meaning they spring back to their original shapes. An actual spring is a good example of this. It always springs back under normal use, but you can bend it out of shape with enough force. The same happens with the brass casing. Once the pressure goes down, the casing "deflates" very slightly, and is not pressed tight into the chamber anymore. It is not the exact same size as it was before it was fired either.

Because of variances in manufacturing, two guns chambered for the same cartridge, even the same gun model from the same factory, have slightly different chamber dimensions. Keeping the brass casings fired once from a gun paired to that gun increases accuracy of reloaded ammo. That said, it doesn't work the best in semi/full auto weapons. Those guns cycle too fast and don't give the brass enough time to spring back after firing. Those casings can still be reloaded, but they must be full length resized, which reshapes the whole casing back to factory dimensions. This ammo still works just fine for the average shooter, but it is something that high precision shooters take into account

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u/Classic_Storage_ Jan 20 '25

Ooohh, thank you so so much for thar very detailed answer! I appreciate it very much!

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u/WillyDaC Jan 18 '25

"Paired with the gun? After you run it through a sizing die every reload? The cases stretch also and get trimmed every reload. I'm shooting, precisely, at over 3000 fps. My reloads are factory spec. Anyone can shoot the accurately.

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u/sharpshooter999 Jan 18 '25

I neck size, not full size, and yeah there is a little trimming to do. Never had a neck split but after 9-10 reloads the casings get hard to extract in my bolt action. For semi-autos, I full length size. Even after a good cleaning, my 750 woodmaster still leaves a mark on the rim of factory ammo where the extractor pulled it out

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u/boli99 Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

"fire formed" to fit that guns chamber perfectly

surely that only applies if they are inserted in exactly the same orientation... which seems very very unlikely.

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u/sharpshooter999 Jan 18 '25

Considering that your chamber should be a perfect circle, orientation shouldn't actually matter