Orange Dust
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Think about it. Cartridge stretch in the web area.....Also Headspace = opportunity for the neck and shoulder of the cartridge to expand out and move forward. Not backward.
Think about it. Cartridge stretch in the web area.....Also Headspace = opportunity for the neck and shoulder of the cartridge to expand out and move forward. Not backward.
Bet you are right. More clearance than headspace.The extractor does not hold the case at all till primary extraction unless you have a grossly over sized case. Headspace is your wiggle room.
Oh I just gotta go here. Option C is safer with a magnum than a creedmore because it takes more force to detonate a magnum primer. Sorry Creedmore guys. You MUST carry with an empty chamber
Seems like this is really 2 scenarios. You personally and what you require of your kid or other inexperienced hunter.I am thinking the type of hunting might come into play here - like spot and stalk in the west vs sitting in a blind or stand shooting a whitetail back east etc.
27 pages and I just had to go thereIt would only be fair to everyone else to handy cap the Creemore guy!
I'm not sure if ophious is playing Devil's advocate, a troll, or an engineer... He seems to be looking at it from a very narrow and controlled perspective, allowing no room for the variables in a dynamic system and using multiple platforms to develop an absolute answer. Springs have different tensions, firing pins different mass, chambers different headspace, extractors different engagement distances, primers of different hardness and volatility, etc.Know the feeling, kinda like trying to explain to someone your firing pin is actually resting on the primer when you drop it on a live case.
I don't like to hike hill and dale it hurts my knees too much so I
go straight to my blind or vantage point Then I chamber a round once I'm settled in.
I unload before leaving..
I have an old 1897 shotgun with a 3 position hammer I never leave it down all the way.
It will go off!..I use half-cock.