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I have this Siam Mauser without a firing pin is it possible to get it shooting again ?

The shoulder can get pushed back easy.

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Great video on the history of the "Mums" of the Japanese rifle. I have two type 99 rifles, one with the Mum not defaced and one where it is grinded off. Thanks

Excellent story my friend.

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I have a 30-40 Kraig. It fires the rimed case (as we all know). Also, the 303 British is a rimed case. Somehow back in my reloading history, some British cases turned up in my collected brass! Dayum!! Being the frugal son of a WWII First Marine, I couldn't see tossing them aside. I eyeballed the brass comparing it to a Kraig case. My microscopic eye said the length of the two is the only difference, hell they'll fireform! Well damned if they were shooting GREAT! 165gr. BTHP with Dupont IMR powder. I always follow the book!! No Max loads! Sometimes improvising is okay. : )

I have a carbide with a detachable bayonet.

Thank you for the info! This happened today to my Son's gun. I used a length of braided cord, and tied a knot in the end. Pulled it thru the muzzle end, took 3 tries, and worked! Have a good weekend!

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It is important to note that people fake these, or change out parts on the guns etc, and they’ve been used since grading. It is hard to prove if the disc is original/correct for the gun anymore.

At the beginning of the breech loading era and for some time thereafter making a consistent chamber and a consistent cartridge to match required close tolerances which were difficult to do in mass production. Head spacing on the rim made both operations far easier. The Canadian Ross rifle shrank both tolerances down to a sporting rifle standard but the British magazine Enfield was churned out with much looser tolerances. In the Great War the Ross had real trouble handling the British made war time mass quality .303” ammunition of loose tolerances suitable for mass war time manufacture whilst the Enfield ate it up with no trouble. Using rim for .303” to head space allowed for looser tolerances. The French did the same as did the Russians and Austrians. The Germans and Swiss went for more expensive machinery and manufacture and rimless. That the Italians went for rimless at the time surprises me. The Japanese just fiddled about with everything and God forbid the army and navy should have the same.

SAVE YOUR MONEY: I bought my Lyman just over two years ago for $250. It worked fairly well until it didn’t. One day with no warning it just quit working & wouldn’t zero the scale anymore rendering it useless. It gave readings all over the map. Scale drift was (4) full grains in a minuet. I contacted Lyman support; they gave me some things to try. It was no use. She never worked again. Bottom line… I got maybe 1000 rifle cases charged in the two years of use for $250. Save your money, buy something better. You don’t have to spend $1000 on a scale. But there are numerous other options out there. I went with the Hornady Auto Charge Pro for $340. We’ll see how that works.

Everything you said. Covered very well. There's a difference with the 7.62x54. The rim is tapered at the base. I always thought that this was to make it easier to push through an unintentional rimlock. The main advantages of the Mauser rimless are no rimlock and because it demands closer chamber dimensions, better accuracy. The Mauser '98 style action is renowned for the strength of its large claw, non-rotating extractor that allows it to also feed upside-down. Belted was the best of both worlds. Positive headspace, especially on African straight wall or long taper cartridges with no rimlock. Rimmed or belted bottleneck cartridges are often most accurate for a particular rifle if reloaded after once fired and not moving the shoulder back during re-sizing any more than required to comfortably and reliably chamber in THAT particular firearm. This prevents over stretching of the brass and pre-mature case head failure, a problem with these cases in reloading not encountered by the military who usually tossed them after firing.

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Having a 30 40 Springfield and a 6.5 swedish Kraig. Rims suck!

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Can you ever really have a bad day fishing? I don't think so...

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That is an interesting discovery.

Proper cartridges are always rimmed. 😇 Yes I am that guy.

A good test is smell... if the powder smells a bit like vinegar, it's deteriorating. Most fairly fresh powder smells a bit like cellulose paint thinner from the solvents used in its manufacture, so that's OK, but that sour vinegar smell is a dead giveaway.

The Japanese type "I" also has a significantly longer length of pull, more comparable to Mauser and other western rifles. This may be why it was less popular to the Japanese users.

The british DID have to supply multiple rifle/machine gun calibres to their forces. The BESA machine gun used in many vehicle mounts was 7.92x57mm aka 8mm Mauser.

It's 7.62x54R not 7.62x54

Because curved magazines look meaner.

Rimmed and belted bottle-neck cartridges were common, because the headspacing was easier to control in the production environment of the time.

The .303 British case was filled with it's propellant, THEN the case was bottle-necked, Finally, the bullet added (and crimped). The case length was NOT KNOWN until ready to seat the bullet (in a charged case). IF the case headspaces on the rim, the forming that happens in a later step, does NOT matter.

I'll save you the time...because it still works.

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Awesome content I’m an ammo nerd… thank you

The logistics argument rings true especially with 303 British as a Royal airforce cadet in 1974 I can remember opening ammunition that had been packed in 1943, there was tones of this stuff still in store long after WW2 and I guess that in 1940 Germans got shot with 303 British that had been packed in 1917.

Still works great, if it isn't broken, don't mess with it.

1 Head spacing is Guaranteed 2 Easy extraction fewer ruptured cases stuck in the chamber 3 If it ain't broke don't fix it

While I haven’t studied rim types, my understanding (maybe misconception) is that a semi-rimed cartridge the rim was larger than the base AND had a groove that was smaller diameter than the base. .25ACP being one, albeit a pistol cartridge.

I have a quantity of Noble shotgun powder . Cant find load data anywhere for this powder .