JeepHammer
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MG, I avoided any hint of the 'Great Minds' quote, mine is somewhere between oatmeal & mud.
I don't ponder the big questions, just little stuff I can measure.
In a round about way, Mr. Guffy makes a point,
There is a 'Go' gauge, there is a 'No Go' gauge, a tolerance considered 'Safe' in between.
All cartridges are slightly to grossly undersized for the chamber, or they simply won't fit and you have to resize them with the bolt.
You must have really hit the scrap bucket for those cases, 2 & 5 look cracked, all of them look like they were fired in a water pipe someone tried to chamber with a rock.
If all your cases look like this, get thee to a gunsmith!
I guess I should have said 'Properly Cut Fluted Chamber', and probably reasonable pressure loads since at least two of the examples are extreme overpressure cases 'They Found At The Range'...
I used to open soda bottles with a cartridge case (when soda came in bottles that needed an opener), and I opened more than a few beer bottles the same way.
It chewed the mouth up in a strange way...
While hunting for something else in my pocket, I laid the case, chap stick and whatever else was in the way on a counter, and a guy picked up the case and proceeded to tell me what was wrong with the 'Gun' to produce cases chewed up like that, swearing some relative of his had the same issue.
I wondered if his relative was a Marine also, that's where I learned it...
The 'Gun' got fixed when twist off caps came along! Strange the things you find at at a range, or hardware store, or car wash... or...
Anyway, I put it out there, 'Believe' what you want to.
The entire 'Sticking' idea can be put to rest fairly easily, simply clamp a chambered barrel in a vice, load a round and set it off without a bolt in place, open back chamber...
If the case comes out at high velocity, then the 'Sticking' idea is a dud.
If the bullet continues down the barrel as normal, and the case stays in the chamber, or even just ejects two or three feet, then you have a winner.
(Disclaimer for the internet search team, this would be a standard barrel with full power factory standard velocity round)
*IF* you are dead sure you are correct about sticking, lower your face down to chamber level about 3 feet directly behind the chamber, (the Darwin Awards needs contestants...)
I don't ponder the big questions, just little stuff I can measure.
In a round about way, Mr. Guffy makes a point,
There is a 'Go' gauge, there is a 'No Go' gauge, a tolerance considered 'Safe' in between.
All cartridges are slightly to grossly undersized for the chamber, or they simply won't fit and you have to resize them with the bolt.
You must have really hit the scrap bucket for those cases, 2 & 5 look cracked, all of them look like they were fired in a water pipe someone tried to chamber with a rock.
If all your cases look like this, get thee to a gunsmith!
I guess I should have said 'Properly Cut Fluted Chamber', and probably reasonable pressure loads since at least two of the examples are extreme overpressure cases 'They Found At The Range'...
I used to open soda bottles with a cartridge case (when soda came in bottles that needed an opener), and I opened more than a few beer bottles the same way.
It chewed the mouth up in a strange way...
While hunting for something else in my pocket, I laid the case, chap stick and whatever else was in the way on a counter, and a guy picked up the case and proceeded to tell me what was wrong with the 'Gun' to produce cases chewed up like that, swearing some relative of his had the same issue.
I wondered if his relative was a Marine also, that's where I learned it...
The 'Gun' got fixed when twist off caps came along! Strange the things you find at at a range, or hardware store, or car wash... or...
Anyway, I put it out there, 'Believe' what you want to.
The entire 'Sticking' idea can be put to rest fairly easily, simply clamp a chambered barrel in a vice, load a round and set it off without a bolt in place, open back chamber...
If the case comes out at high velocity, then the 'Sticking' idea is a dud.
If the bullet continues down the barrel as normal, and the case stays in the chamber, or even just ejects two or three feet, then you have a winner.
(Disclaimer for the internet search team, this would be a standard barrel with full power factory standard velocity round)
*IF* you are dead sure you are correct about sticking, lower your face down to chamber level about 3 feet directly behind the chamber, (the Darwin Awards needs contestants...)