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What’s the benefit of having a long necked cartridge?
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<blockquote data-quote="J E Custom" data-source="post: 1383328" data-attributes="member: 2736"><p>You are absolutely correct. It was hammered into my head by all the "Old Timers" when I was a young pup. What changed was because of the quest for more velocity and more powder choices. Once we demanded more speed, more case capacity was needed and the 300 Win Mag is an example of increasing the case volume without having to Increase the action length.</p><p></p><p>As wildcatters, we are constantly pushing the boundaries of all the old</p><p>norms and getting away with it because we have better chambers, bullets, powders and reloading dies that can load ammo more precisely in short necks. (How many remember when you started to seat a bullet and then rotated it in the die before it was to finished length/depth to keep it straight) things have changed for sure.</p><p></p><p>After many years of trial and error designing and building wildcats that would perform better that the parent cases this standard had to be altered. This doesn't make it a bad rule, in fact it is still a good guide line for small caliber cartridges and very usable for the mid caliber rifles</p><p></p><p>It does have a point that it is not practical in the truly big bore bolt rifles because of cartridge length. the old doubles can and still use long necks because lots of them don't size the case and just crimp the case to hold the bullet and they are single loaded.</p><p></p><p>J E CUSTOM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J E Custom, post: 1383328, member: 2736"] You are absolutely correct. It was hammered into my head by all the "Old Timers" when I was a young pup. What changed was because of the quest for more velocity and more powder choices. Once we demanded more speed, more case capacity was needed and the 300 Win Mag is an example of increasing the case volume without having to Increase the action length. As wildcatters, we are constantly pushing the boundaries of all the old norms and getting away with it because we have better chambers, bullets, powders and reloading dies that can load ammo more precisely in short necks. (How many remember when you started to seat a bullet and then rotated it in the die before it was to finished length/depth to keep it straight) things have changed for sure. After many years of trial and error designing and building wildcats that would perform better that the parent cases this standard had to be altered. This doesn't make it a bad rule, in fact it is still a good guide line for small caliber cartridges and very usable for the mid caliber rifles It does have a point that it is not practical in the truly big bore bolt rifles because of cartridge length. the old doubles can and still use long necks because lots of them don't size the case and just crimp the case to hold the bullet and they are single loaded. J E CUSTOM [/QUOTE]
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