beretz, this one statement surprised me.
***"My bud that was a good family friend said he never saw a set of calipers on his bench grin"***
I'm not asking anyone these ??? but that makes me wonder.......
How often did he trim cases ?
How did he determine COAL ?
How could he know chamber distance to lands ?
etc.
Jerry
Well, RinB might better answer this but Bob would make most of his ammo to fit the magazine since he dealt with a bunch of Long throated rifles he liked to build (300 Win, 7 Mashburn, 7 Rem). He just loaded them to fit in his magazines and was pretty happy.
Don’t know about trimming cases? I know the Mashburn never required trimming though
I don’t think he cared about distance to the lands. He just loaded what fit and believed if the rifle was straight, it would shoot. If it didn’t, he tripped it down the road.
Once he had a known good load he made a dummy cartridge up and that’s what he used to set up his dies. He liked to shoot and not waste a bunch of time handloading.
