Jeff Siewert

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So there's gun considerations that have to go into how we choose to headspace the cartridge.

And then the next question you have to ask yourself is,

Is there a spring, like from a spring-loaded eject plunger, that pushes the case forward in the chamber?

So for guns like the old Mausers, there's no spring to push that forward.

The Remingtons, the Savages, those bolts have a spring-loaded plunger, and they're going to push the cartridge more deeply into the chamber and

and open up so that the case will be in intimate contact up on the shoulder or on the belt, and if there's a gap in the system, there'll be a gap at the base of the cartridge, okay?

I'm currently reloading some...

some 300 wind mag for my nephew and we had a bit of a go around the last time I did that.

Basically, I loaded up 20 cartridges on a 300 wind mag and, you know, used my standard reloading procedure, sizing procedure,

And, you know, tried them and they wouldn't fit in the gun because the shoulder was too long.

So my opinion, it's kind of goofy to have two things that can control the headspace when really what you would like to have is one.

All right.

Questions here?

Yeah, and it's really a bit of a balancing act, trying to have the shoulder bumped enough so that the rim doesn't fetch up first.

My nephew has a Browning X-Bowl.

Like I said, I loaded what I thought was typical and stopped hard in the gun.

I had to go, I had to pull all those bullets, go back through and resize, you know, basically bump the shoulder more in order to get, to allow them to chamber.

And, you know, the, my experience has been the, the head, the, the, the shoulder head space is kind of all over the map with those guns.

I've found that,