Dave Kiff

[Eddie Harren]

Still Slinging. Still amazing all us dummies. I think I'll choose the earlier stated "Jackass" option.

 

[Ledd Slinger]

Still Slinging. Still amazing all us dummies. I think I'll choose the earlier stated "Jackass" option.

Never once did I call anyone dumb. Never once did I say chambering with headspace gauges was wrong. Never once did I say that my method was better (just said it works well for me). And I certainly never called you any childish names. Nor will I ever stoop so low. My parents taught me to respect people growing up in the mountain country of Montana. Something this nation needs more of these days...

 

[dmoran]

Never once did I call anyone dumb. Never once did I say chambering with headspace gauges was wrong. Never once did I say that my method was better (just said it works well for me). And I certainly never called you any childish names. Nor will I ever stoop so low. My parents taught me to respect people growing up in the mountain country of Montana. Something this nation needs more of these days...

Dummy rounds are also the best way for a smith to set your headspace. So I also supply him with empty sized brass.

You give a good smith the right tools to do the job, he'll have a lot better chance of doing the job right.

With those statements you made, I felt was telling me and the forum, that chamber gauges are not good, and dummy rounds are the best way to set headspace.


Question: who are these gunsmiths you speak of that won't chamber a barrel without dummy rounds to set the headspace off of?

Myself, I would never pick or advise a gunsmith who does it that way.... but this could just be me !.!.!

Donovan

 

[Thud]

Has this thread reached an endpoint and needs to be closed???????

 

[boltman223]

Has this thread reached an endpoint and needs to be closed???????

I sometimes will take two Virgin un primed and unloaded cases and debur the neck. I will insert a Go gauge in the chamber and measure from the head end to a reference point on the barrel tenon. Then I insert both pieces of virgin brass into the chamber and check the measurements from the case head to the same point I used with the Go


Nat Lambeth

No, not yet, I don't think. I want to know how he gets two cases in the chamber at one time. Or maybe it was two virgins at one time I can't remember.

 

[Ledd Slinger]

Never once did I call anyone dumb. Never once did I say chambering with headspace gauges was wrong. Never once did I say that my method was better (just said it works well for me). And I certainly never called you any childish names. Nor will I ever stoop so low. My parents taught me to respect people growing up in the mountain country of Montana. Something this nation needs more of these days...

Dummy rounds are also the best way for a smith to set your headspace. So I also supply him with empty sized brass.

You give a good smith the right tools to do the job, he'll have a lot better chance of doing the job right.

With those statements you made, I felt was telling me and the forum, that chamber gauges are not good, and dummy rounds are the best way to set headspace.


Question: who are these gunsmiths you speak of that won't chamber a barrel without dummy rounds to set the headspace off of?

Myself, I would never pick or advise a gunsmith who does it that way.... but this could just be me !.!.!

Donovan

My main point of chambering with dummy rounds had nothing to do with "headspace". The issue at hand was checking bullet seating depth to the lands. You cant check bullet seating with go/no go gauges. Although I do have barrels chambered with sized brass for headspacing, that wasn't the point I was originally trying to make. I did say that brass was the "best way to headspace", and that was a slip up on my part. I should have said that using brass to headspace is an "effective" method I personally use. By saying "the right tools" in my earlier post, I really meant a dummy round with a bullet seated to the proper depth according to the reamer print. I apologize if there was any misunderstanding there due to my poor use of words. No offense intended to anyone here.

 

[Eddie Harren]

Spoken like a man.

 

[Ledd Slinger]

I know this topic is pretty much dead, but here's an example of what I was talking about. You see these threads all the time. When I have my chamber matched up to my sized brass, I never see issues like the one in the topic link below that a member just posted...

http://forum.accurateshooter.com/index.php?topic=3874427.0;topicseen