Amazed Posted October 21, 2012 Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 Me To Welcome to the twilight zone or pw for short Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanL Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Spent far too long in/with the armed forces; have picked up their jargon: Yep, those brass bits that the heads bullets get pushed into. PS Couldn't remember when the first mention was and had to go and check. Cylinders were in use some 400 years before brass cases. The term related to the paper roll that held the charge and bullet. As our armed forces have been around for a while and used them explains why the old term usage remains instead of the newfangled nomenclature for this recent introduction. Edit: PS Corrected for you. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanL Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 I think that Hornet brass sometimes has a shorter life than other stuff is down to a couple of things. The brass is very thin and work-hardens quite fast. The other thing is that Hornet chambers are, in my experiance, usually quite sloppy and allow a large amount of expansion. If you look at the brass after it's been fired you can often see quite a significant amount of expansion directly in front of the base. In pretty much any other chambering that amount of expansion would indicate signifantly high pressure. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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