Originally Posted by SSB
Sorry for taking the BTE off track for a moment......

BD, I've been approached by a few locals here to come up with a cartridge and I thought I would seek your wise council. Michigan is in the act of passing a law to modify what is legal in it's "shotgun only" zone to include what they describe as a "straight walled brass case, minmum of .35 caliber, with a maximum case length of 1.8".
My first two candidates are a .375 Win. and a .444 Marlin. The Winchester case is 2.02 to begin with...so shortening loses less capacity than shortening the 2.16 Marlin case. Right now I have shortened 10 of the win cases and am ready to load them with a 225gr speer spire pt. I have laying around. In playing with a dummy round I think I can seat the bullet out and regain .150 of the .220 in lost case length. Going to fire these out of a Ruger #3 so chambered and see how they act with the extra freebore.
What say you? Think I am on the right track?



460 S&W Ruger NO 1's oughta be well sought after now.

Last edited by 28lx; 05/23/13.