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Originally Posted by Milton C Starr
Charlie, Art may be on to something with the lathe. Since theres no head stamp under the brass ring on the Remingtons you could get that electric headstamping kit from midway and mark it as whatever you please. hmmm  |
Turns out Art is maybenot on to much. Got the gun today, first thing is I tried a shell for fit (one with the outer brass removed). Went in great. Too great. Turns out the inner plain brass rim thickness is much too thin to hold the head at the proper height. I tried a Winchester swaged down and a new Parker headstamped brass case, and they fit fine. It looks like at least the industrial Remington cases are made a nonstandard size and then the over brass swaged on. Since the swaged Winchester fits when swaged, I have to assume they are too. Which leads us back to the Fiocchi based paper shells. I wonder how they make their case heads. If you are going to make them nonstandard as a base and then swage on a nonstandard over lay, that just seems goofy. The Industrial guns could just as easily been chambered for a round with the proper headspace and the case heads made that way. As they are built, both sections are nonstandard.
I'm going to bore out a bushing tonight and polish it.