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Somebody explain Headspace.
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<blockquote data-quote="Long Time Long Ranger" data-source="post: 215133" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>I thought it was the empty space measured between the ears and the brain. Some seem to have quite a bit more than others. Particularly noticed with drivers during rush hour traffic. In a rifle proper headspace keeps the firing pin from driving the case forward when it strikes the primer which can be very dangerous from hangfires to blowing up. With belted magnums the rim of the belt stops forward motion by matching the corresponding cut in the chamber the proper distance from the bolt face with a go-no go gauge. With non-belted cartridges the shoulder of the cartridge stops the forward motion so the headspace is measured to that point from the bolt face with a go-no go gauge. Maybe when enough of us describe the same thing all in different terms those of us with the greatest headspace can even understand it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Long Time Long Ranger, post: 215133, member: 505"] I thought it was the empty space measured between the ears and the brain. Some seem to have quite a bit more than others. Particularly noticed with drivers during rush hour traffic. In a rifle proper headspace keeps the firing pin from driving the case forward when it strikes the primer which can be very dangerous from hangfires to blowing up. With belted magnums the rim of the belt stops forward motion by matching the corresponding cut in the chamber the proper distance from the bolt face with a go-no go gauge. With non-belted cartridges the shoulder of the cartridge stops the forward motion so the headspace is measured to that point from the bolt face with a go-no go gauge. Maybe when enough of us describe the same thing all in different terms those of us with the greatest headspace can even understand it. [/QUOTE]
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