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Blackhorn 209
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<blockquote data-quote="ENCORE" data-source="post: 1956747" data-attributes="member: 33046"><p>Sooner or later the nipple will gas cut. What attempts to prolong it, is that Remington made it harder than the original Ultimate breech plug.</p><p></p><p>When you close the bolt on a case, the bolt should close with resistance. In other words, you know you're sealing the brass case to the nipple. That's in a perfect world, with perfect brass cases and perfect head space.</p><p>Its impossible to keep gas from leaking when brass head thickness varies up to .020". Its just not possible.</p><p></p><p><strong>Just a wacked out example</strong>: If you have cases with an average head thickness of .300", what happens when you start a group of cases that the head thickness is only .280"? Gas is going to leak, no way around it.</p><p>Ever notice how they tell you only to re-prime the cases "X" number of times??? Why's that?</p><p></p><p>That mess can be fixed if you want to do it half asked. But.... its so labor intensive you'll drive yourself NUTS!</p><p>You can search through 1,000 cases, measuring the head thickness of every one. Once you find the least head thickness piece of brass, you use that as a pilot. Then trim all 1,000 pieces of brass to one identical length, including your pilot piece. Once you've done that to 1,000 pieces of brass, now take an inside primer pocket reamer and set it to the depth of your pilot brass. Then ream the primer pockets of 999 other pieces of brass. Now you have 1,000 pieces of identical brass primer carriers.</p><p>NEXT............ After all that labor, now you have to set the barrel back to obtain the proper head space.</p><p></p><p>I highly recommend to anyone owning either the RUM or UF rifles, get the Arrowhead conversion and be done with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ENCORE, post: 1956747, member: 33046"] Sooner or later the nipple will gas cut. What attempts to prolong it, is that Remington made it harder than the original Ultimate breech plug. When you close the bolt on a case, the bolt should close with resistance. In other words, you know you're sealing the brass case to the nipple. That's in a perfect world, with perfect brass cases and perfect head space. Its impossible to keep gas from leaking when brass head thickness varies up to .020". Its just not possible. [B]Just a wacked out example[/B]: If you have cases with an average head thickness of .300", what happens when you start a group of cases that the head thickness is only .280"? Gas is going to leak, no way around it. Ever notice how they tell you only to re-prime the cases "X" number of times??? Why's that? That mess can be fixed if you want to do it half asked. But.... its so labor intensive you'll drive yourself NUTS! You can search through 1,000 cases, measuring the head thickness of every one. Once you find the least head thickness piece of brass, you use that as a pilot. Then trim all 1,000 pieces of brass to one identical length, including your pilot piece. Once you've done that to 1,000 pieces of brass, now take an inside primer pocket reamer and set it to the depth of your pilot brass. Then ream the primer pockets of 999 other pieces of brass. Now you have 1,000 pieces of identical brass primer carriers. NEXT............ After all that labor, now you have to set the barrel back to obtain the proper head space. I highly recommend to anyone owning either the RUM or UF rifles, get the Arrowhead conversion and be done with it. [/QUOTE]
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