Jim
08-16-2012, 05:43 PM
Forgive me for blathering, I'm Irish.
People leave all kinds of stuff on this range I'm working on. A coupla' months back, the CRO gave me a little pocket telescope that somebody left. It's so cheap, it doesn't even have a brand name or "made in china" on it. I threw it in my range bag.
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A little while ago, I sat down to load some 175 gr. spitzer point boat tail FMJs in some .30-06 cases. I had flared the cases for loading cast boolits and wanted to set the seating die to put an ever so slight crimp on the case mouth.
I set the die to what I thought was deep enough to crimp the case, but wanted to look at it with a magnifying glass to check it. I had left my jeweler's loupe home, so I began thinking about how I could accomplish this.
I remembered the little scope and wondered if I could unscrew the objective lens and use it for that. The scope is rubber cased and the objective lens wouldn't come off with moderate pressure, so I gave that up.
Just for kicks and giggles, I turned the scope end for end, put the round close to the eye lens (whatever that's called), looked through it backwards and, lo and behold, I got a 'fish eye', but great picture of the crimp at a very magnified view.
I thought I'd post this as someone might have use for that information. I'm not sure it would work with any kind of telescope or binos, but it's worth a try, right?
People leave all kinds of stuff on this range I'm working on. A coupla' months back, the CRO gave me a little pocket telescope that somebody left. It's so cheap, it doesn't even have a brand name or "made in china" on it. I threw it in my range bag.
http://floydpics.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/dscn1049-e1345152359995.jpg
A little while ago, I sat down to load some 175 gr. spitzer point boat tail FMJs in some .30-06 cases. I had flared the cases for loading cast boolits and wanted to set the seating die to put an ever so slight crimp on the case mouth.
I set the die to what I thought was deep enough to crimp the case, but wanted to look at it with a magnifying glass to check it. I had left my jeweler's loupe home, so I began thinking about how I could accomplish this.
I remembered the little scope and wondered if I could unscrew the objective lens and use it for that. The scope is rubber cased and the objective lens wouldn't come off with moderate pressure, so I gave that up.
Just for kicks and giggles, I turned the scope end for end, put the round close to the eye lens (whatever that's called), looked through it backwards and, lo and behold, I got a 'fish eye', but great picture of the crimp at a very magnified view.
I thought I'd post this as someone might have use for that information. I'm not sure it would work with any kind of telescope or binos, but it's worth a try, right?