Standardized Shotshell dimensions.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

Edgar, has your staggering distance increased or decreased over the years? Has experience/immunity increased your stagger distance or has age and failing joints taken their toll on what once could have been impressive stagger numbers? Asking for a friend.

Mike, In the 25 years of going back and forth to the UK, roughly 60 days per year, when in London, I always stayed in the same hotel in South Kensington. The walk to my favorite pub was a pleasant 10 minute, 4 blocks over, and 2 blocks down to Old Brompton Road. My walk back to the hotel was a pleasant 45 minute walk back, 3-5 blocks up, 2-3 blocks over, 4-6 back the other way. It usually included 4 or 5 garden watering stops. The origin of leather patches on their sweaters (jumpers) was the crawl home from the local. In the outlying villages in was necessary to crawl using your elbows, so that you could hold a drink in one hand and a fag (cigarette) in the other. I know all this because a friend told me.

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

Mike, In the 25 years of going back and forth to the UK, roughly 60 days per year, when in London, I always stayed in the same hotel in South Kensington. The walk to my favorite pub was a pleasant 10 minute, 4 blocks over, and 2 blacks down to Old Brompton Road. My walk back to the hotel was a pleasant 45 minute walk back, 3-5 blocks up, 2-3 blocks over, 4-6 black back the other way. It usually included 4 or 5 garden watering stops. The origin of leather patches on their sweaters (jumpers) was the crawl home from the local. In the outlying villages in was necessary to crawl using your elbows, so that you could hold a drink in one hand and a fag (cigarette) in the other. I know all this because a friend told me.

What made that pleasant walk even more dangerous was the constant bombing by the Luftwaffe.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

What made that pleasant walk even more dangerous was the constant bombing by the Luftwaffe.

Now That is funny, though I took comfort knowing you were defending the realm in your Sopwith Camel.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

Now That is funny, though I took comfort knowing you were defending the realm in your Sopwith Camel.

I'd give Daryl the benefit of the doubt. He was probably flying a Spitfire!!

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

Now That is funny, though I took comfort knowing you were defending the realm in your Sopwith Camel.

Just call me Snoopy!

Now that you mention it Mike, my skills do lean towards the sporty Spitfire.

[Bill Murphy]

Dean, you beat me to it. Hayes' rim cutter may be the pre 1906 model. I hope Edgar isn't too proud to ask me who I borrowed one from. He's a great guy and would be willing to lend it out again. By the way, its a full chamber and forcing cone reamer in one. I checked the price and you don't want to buy one.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Dean, you beat me to it. Hayes' rim cutter may be the pre 1906 model. I hope Edgar isn't too proud to ask me who I borrowed one from. He's a great guy and would be willing to lend it out again. By the way, its a full chamber and forcing cone reamer in one. I checked the price and you don't want to buy one.

Does the tool with the chamber reamer actually lengthen the chambers significantly or only to the few thousandths that it deepens the rim recess?






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[edgarspencer]

Dean, It was my understanding that the chamber and forcing cone were cut separately from the rim recess. The original Parker tools cut the rim only, so going in with a modern tool would only just contact the original chamber when the rim portion of the tool had gone in sufficiently. The original Parker tool came with a go/no-go gauge. I am not planning on cutting the rim face, just the diameter. We're only talking about .0025" (.005 on the diameter)

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Just call me Snoopy!

Now that you mention it Mike, my skills do lean towards the sporty Spitfire.

Spitfires and MGBs are your style my friend!!