commander faschisto wrote:Wish I could remember where I saw this, but someone is successfully using a little bit of balled-up wool to take up the unused space in cartridges with less-than-full powder charges, much like your grits experiment (do you prefer regular or instant?). Seems to work well, and they said it combusts completely with no residue.
Now, where the heck did I read that? (First thing to go is your memory, and...danged if I can remember the second thing now...)
Using fiberfill, jute, hollowfill, etc work fine on straight-walled cases like ours. You don't want to use instant cream of wheat or instant grits. Just the rgeular works fine. The issue with spongy fillers is that despite holding the powder back initially they still compress when the shokwave hits them. Granular solid fillers may tighten up a little as the air is driven out from in between the granules, but nowhere near that of a spongy filler. Now whether that amounts to a hill of beans in our particular caliber, I can not say. Then again, I can't say whether normalizing the primer pockets and deburring the flash holes add up to anything either, but I do that too.
I was hoping for a weekend of playing with QL, reloading and going to the range. It is beautiful outside. Unfortunately, the main power feeder pole to our development twisted off in the severe weather yesterday afternoon and though we had power for a while afterwards, they diverted to to areas more severely hit until 11 PM Sundy night. In an unfortunate (at the moment) gesture of charity, I gave my manual scale to someone who didn't have any since I have this high falutin electronic one, only to discover that if you have no power, you can't reload. DOH!
So, I changed the oil in both cars, mowed the lawn, the scrubbed floors and now I sit here all revved up and nowhere to go.
I'm on call this weekend, so I have the crash bag with battery powered laptop and aircard, so I am able to send this. I have to conserve power now in case an emergency arises at work.
Hoot