My present from jnyork

earlmck · Post by **earlmck** » Thu May 14, 2015 7:01 pm

Last week fellow levergunner jnyork offered up a box of 30 Rem brass he'd rescued from his stash. I was the lucky recipient and the box showed up on the doorstep this morning. Big thanks, Jerry!

Since this is Winchester brand stuff and my other brass is Remington I was curious about the comparative case capacities. I poured 3 of the Wins and 3 of the Rems level full of Lil' Gun. They are exactly the same (45.2 +/- .1)! I'd expect more variation from different lots of the same brand -- makes me wonder if some factory didn't run off a huge vat of the stuff back there 50 years ago and everything we get is from that one run, no matter when we buy it or what headstamp is being exhibited.

No that doesn't seem likely but... I don't have a better explanation for different brands and very different ages matching perfectly. And then I did the same with some Win branded 30/30. This held half a grain less, but had just been trimmed and was .002 shorter than the 30 Rems which would totally account for the half grain.

Since I had them on the loading bench I went ahead and filled them up:

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This is a very pleasant plinking load (has received the granddaughter seal of approval from two different wimps) using 8.3 grains Green Dot behind the Lyman .309241 150 grain PB.
Cases have been run over the Lyman "M" die to give a bit of neck expansion for starting the cast bullet, the bullets pressed in the neck slightly in preparation for being seated the rest of the way using the old Nonte' shuffle that has been talked of previously on this forum. This seating depth doesn't match up with a groove: I finish with a light factory crimp from the Lee 30/30 FC die.

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Thu May 14, 2015 7:06 pm

Good deal, there are some good people on this forum.

spaceman spiff · Post by **spaceman spiff** » Thu May 14, 2015 8:33 pm

jnyork is cool.......

spaceman

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri May 15, 2015 3:21 pm

Very good Earl.

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Fri May 15, 2015 4:26 pm

Glad to see the old soldiers being put to work.

1894c · Post by **1894c** » Fri May 15, 2015 9:05 pm

Paladin wrote:Good deal, there are some good people on this forum.

...there are some VERY good people with HUGE HEARTS on this forum... :)

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Tue May 19, 2015 6:05 pm

Got the little note you sent me, Earl, thanks. Jerry

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