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Unread 06-01-2010, 10:29 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by Paul Harm View Post
Mine is a hammergun with 30" barrels on a #2 frame and 2 5/8" chambers with a wedge forearm serial #13979. Maybe the last one with a wedge forearm ? Because of the cost of new Remington hulls, I cut a hull to 2" to see if I could just trim the hulls everytime they went bad from reloading. Think I found a way to get many more reloads from a shell.
I cut some back to 2 5/8" but I don't think I could go much shorter and still use a star crimp as the wad fingers of the SP10 was would have been too high. I believe most of these old 10's have "square chambers" and I wondering if that would upset the pattern from a shell less than 2 7/8".
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