Chamber Lengths
Frank; The 1899 Parker Catalog, and others, offer chamber lengths at the buyers specification at no additional cost. At the same time, Winchester and UMC offered paper cases at the length specified by the customer. There is no "standard" for the time.
The best information for the era indicates that long cases and chambers were used to accomodate longer wads. Long chambers were not made to accomodate predecessors of Super X loads.
Best, Austin
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