Seismic Sam wrote:Uh, Mike??? Just where in hell can you find linotype in the year 2010, or were you joking about that?? Or are you talking about the metal they use these days to cast the cylindrical print segmets that go on the rotary newspaper print heads??
Oh, the powder du jour for the 500 is Lil' Gun and large rifle primers, which are now the de facto standard for the 500. 500 cases that were designed for magnum pistol primers can simply be reamed out to rifle depth, and you probably already have that reamer anyway.
And for the rest of you, Mike's remarks about wildcatting, case forming, and neck thinning make him a real, bona-fide ringer with a post count of only 5. Wildcatters are a step beyond where even I go, and make up their own cartridge designs from others. That means you have to have dies made up, and order custom rifle barrels AND specify what you want the chamber dimensions to be, and a lot of other stuff. Then the fun begins, because you have to work up your own loads from scratch with little or no published data, and figure out how think the neck has to be for the proper bullet tension, and tolerances for the case relative to the chamber so the case can expand enough to let go of the bullet, and it just goes on and on, and you're pretty much on your own for the whole thing.
And BTW, Mike, by case neck thinning, do you mean inside reaming of the case neck while it's in the die?? I have done outside neck turning, and it was pretty obvious from having to pick a stop point on the neck of the case that simply running the reamer all the way down the inside of the neck was a better way to go. And just what kind of wildcats are you shooting, anyway??
Sam,
I spent a good hour putting together a reply and shooting few new pics, answering phone and other stuff, Then I go to post and it gives me a invalid crap and I lost the whole darned thing ugh!
anyway I think I'll get a post put together and out of respect of O.P. I will start a new post titled Wildcat. I will explain abit what I am doing and what is involved.
Linotype is as you say and I can get it fairly easy but not cheap gotta be about $1.00 lb. these days. I still have some stash from 1989-90 and some newr stuff to about 60+ lbs. I suspect.
The FF of cases is for a 6-284 which is a .243 on steroids if you will. It has a tight neck and I am outside turning this batch of brass. I have another that I enjoy working with and it has alot less ino available .41 Special in a S&W 686 pushing 215's at about 1,100 FPS
The cylinder bolt notch wall thickness is less than the point gap on a 69 Chevy
No Brain surgery but not for the Faint of Heart either. The thing with any wildcat is it was put together without a blessing from SAAMI and in some cases such as my Special pressure is a concern.
Be Safe
-Mike
