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What Techniques Have You Picked Up Reloading That You Wished You Knew From The Start?
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<blockquote data-quote="fguffey" data-source="post: 1868715" data-attributes="member: 113511"><p>I do not have any regrets; I decided the die and press had threads, I had no trouble understanding the die was solid and when the top of the die went up the bottom of the die traveled the same distance/direction. And then I looked at the chamber after getting 4 different answers for the same question. So I figured reloaders did not understand the chamber, and I wondered if the confusion was caused by the darkest created by the closing of the bolt.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That is when I started measuring chamber length at least three different ways without a head space. And then there was the vague understanding of the datum. Way back then reloaders/smiths called the datum a 'line', they even had an arrow pointing at it and the explanation; 'datum line'.</p><p></p><p>All I had to do was close my eyes to see the datum was not a line, in the darkness of my mind I could see the datum was a round hole. From then on I made my own datums. By the time I made one datum I understood there were no case friendly datums. Others insisted on a bevel with a radius, the difference between a datum with a bevel and a datum with a sharp edge? The datum with a bevel is a compare-tar.</p><p></p><p>And then I wanted to know what happened to the case when fired. I never went through the wringing of hands and or the gnashing of teeth. I made a tool that allowed me to determine if it was possible for the case to take off for the shoulder of the chamber before the firing pin busted the primer. I though it would be more than 'nice to know', I became a fan of the killer firing pin.</p><p></p><p>And it has always been easy for me to determine the length of the case when the bolt would not close; I always thought it would be helpful if I could determine how far the bolt needed to travel to close in thousandths.</p><p></p><p>It was about that time I thought all reloaders knew this stuff; and then? They went to a lot of trouble to convince me I was wrong.</p><p></p><p>F. Guffey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fguffey, post: 1868715, member: 113511"] I do not have any regrets; I decided the die and press had threads, I had no trouble understanding the die was solid and when the top of the die went up the bottom of the die traveled the same distance/direction. And then I looked at the chamber after getting 4 different answers for the same question. So I figured reloaders did not understand the chamber, and I wondered if the confusion was caused by the darkest created by the closing of the bolt. That is when I started measuring chamber length at least three different ways without a head space. And then there was the vague understanding of the datum. Way back then reloaders/smiths called the datum a 'line', they even had an arrow pointing at it and the explanation; 'datum line'. All I had to do was close my eyes to see the datum was not a line, in the darkness of my mind I could see the datum was a round hole. From then on I made my own datums. By the time I made one datum I understood there were no case friendly datums. Others insisted on a bevel with a radius, the difference between a datum with a bevel and a datum with a sharp edge? The datum with a bevel is a compare-tar. And then I wanted to know what happened to the case when fired. I never went through the wringing of hands and or the gnashing of teeth. I made a tool that allowed me to determine if it was possible for the case to take off for the shoulder of the chamber before the firing pin busted the primer. I though it would be more than 'nice to know', I became a fan of the killer firing pin. And it has always been easy for me to determine the length of the case when the bolt would not close; I always thought it would be helpful if I could determine how far the bolt needed to travel to close in thousandths. It was about that time I thought all reloaders knew this stuff; and then? They went to a lot of trouble to convince me I was wrong. F. Guffey [/QUOTE]
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