Again, I was visiting a friend at the Dallas Market Hall Gun Show, A man that had purchased a custom rifle from him informed him the 35 Whelen had head space issues, and then he presented a case as evidence (I did not get involved), my friend told him to bring the rifle in and it would be checked, then the man with the evidence and the man that built the rifle were finished, then I got involved, I asked him of he would allow me to see the evidence of of a rifle with head space issues, he careful removed the case (again), after examining the case I ask him if the case he handed me was the only case he had, he did not understand the question so I changed the wording, I ask him if he only had one case that he was loading, firing, loading over and over again, I explained to him the was being pulled apart when the ram was lowered or the case was extracted from the chamber, I explained to him he has gotten all the use from that case that was possible, my friend that built the rifle came down to where I was and looked at the case again, rather than make his customer believe he was being treated rudely he sent him to a third party with the instructions not to tell 'the man of few words' what I said about his worn out case nor was he to tell him who built the rifle, he was simply told to hand the case to him as then ask him what he thought. He die, the man of few words pulled the case apart and measured the brass thickness in the center of the body, .0025, he was informed .0025 is OK for paper, but not for brass, it was suggested the owner of the rifle/case get another case and start over.
I did not ask him if he knew what the case weighed when he started, I did not ask him how many times he had fired the one case, I did offer to form cases for him, seems the man of few words upset him when he pulled the case apart, the rifle never made it back to the shop. Flow, stretch and trim, if all of this happens when the case is fired seems there would come a time the case would disappear unless brass is added to the rear, and with the firing of a case from 50 to 150 times no one weight and of measure the case thickness. Could be like the odometer on an old pick up, it rolls over once and is out of warranty, some could be skipping or omitting everything between 100,000 and 400,000 thousand, yes, over 400,000 sounds better than 100,010.
F. Guffey