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Stallones and 775 - how do you do a chamber cast?

Thanks!

Mike

Will get back to you on that tomorrow Mike, gotta tuck in!

Meantime, it is Cerrosafe from Brownell's, you might be able to pull the directions off the website if yer on a quest and no one else chimes in tonight.

Best,
Mark

That chamber would definitely have been intended for use with paper cases.
Note in this context I refer to "Brass Cases" as those thin walled all brass cases. The paper cases with full length brass shells I refer to as a paper case. The brass was there for the purpose of containing swelling under wet conditions as waterfowling etc. I believe also the paper normally extended past the brass for a length sufficient for crimping, so upon firing the paper actually met the cone.
The idea behind this sharp step was that the case would open against the end of chamber & provide a non-interupted transition from shell to bore. In practise the case was not usually as thick as was the step so was still a sharp corner to cause ahot deformation, plus shell cases were not held to a consistent enough lenght & some fell short & some overlapped. Again I am quite surprised a chamber of this type being found from a gun as late as 1880 from as respected a maker as WR.

That is the same type chamber as 775 posted that it in my Westley Richards,
I use Cerrosafe normally,but occasionally use melted Sulfur.