This may be just a false memory, but another thread jogged this thinking.
I remember reading an article a long, long time ago by Harvey Donaldson (yes, I'm an old guy) & he was talking about a bench rifle that he had along with a block of some 30 odd specially prepped cases, probably in his "wasp" caliber, no doubt. What he was saying is that those cases would out last the life of his bench rifle. His rifle obviously had a tight neck & he had so selected & prepped his cases so they never needed resizing. Upon firing, the neck would expand then contract back to a diameter sufficient to hold a bullet again. He just deprimed/primed, charged & straight-line seated a new bullet with a hand die, then went out & won another match!
I realize such ammo could not withstand rough handling & this was probably only good for the bench, but was this ever an accepted practice? I can't say as I've seen this technique mentioned again(?)
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I remember reading an article a long, long time ago by Harvey Donaldson (yes, I'm an old guy) & he was talking about a bench rifle that he had along with a block of some 30 odd specially prepped cases, probably in his "wasp" caliber, no doubt. What he was saying is that those cases would out last the life of his bench rifle. His rifle obviously had a tight neck & he had so selected & prepped his cases so they never needed resizing. Upon firing, the neck would expand then contract back to a diameter sufficient to hold a bullet again. He just deprimed/primed, charged & straight-line seated a new bullet with a hand die, then went out & won another match!
I realize such ammo could not withstand rough handling & this was probably only good for the bench, but was this ever an accepted practice? I can't say as I've seen this technique mentioned again(?)
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