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- From: toby@stein.u.washington.edu (Toby Bradshaw)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: inside turning brass
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.190701.2579@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:47:33 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <Bzo3IK.K22@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cbl@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Chris Luchini) writes:
- #tb#I bet it would be cheaper to find some good brass in the
- #tb#big 6mm of your choice and have your rifle rechambered for
- #tb#it than bore out existing cases and re-form them to 6/284.
- #
- # Unfortunatly, 6/284 is the bigist case that will work
- # on a standard .470 case head size. I guess I could
- # cut the belt off, and cut the head on magnum cases to
- # .470, etc. . . ;( [at this point it's not even funny]
-
- I don't think the .284 case holds any more than a .25-06, which
- has the .473 head size. Kenny Jarrett makes a blown-out 6mm
- Catbird based on the .270 case. True, it won't run through
- a short action, but neither will a 6/284 with the bullets
- seated outside the boiler room. Obviously, rechambering
- is an expensive and maybe not desirable operation (given
- that the barrel life is probably less than 1000 rounds anyway).
-
- # Weight variation on the stuff I have is +-~15 grains,
- # and the distrobution is very non-gaussian. ...
- # I think I just have an exceptionally bad lot of brass.
-
- 15 grains! Run, do not walk to the nearest body of water and
- give this brass a flotation test! If it floats, keep it :)
-
- Toby Bradshaw
- Department of Biochemistry and College of Forest Resources
- University of Washington, Seattle
- toby@u.washington.edu
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