Kansas Ed
07-27-2013, 12:18 AM
Well gents....here's the deal. I have a nice 1886 in 40-82. It shoots well with cast, but the down side to this rifle is that the groove measures 408+ and of course the chamber is tight. Now I can neck ream/turn brass till it's about .012" per side and get a .4085 boolit to chamber...and it does work well this way. But I'd sure like to get a little more life out of my brass...not to mention a little more room to play. Has anyone any ideas that are tried and proven to expand the neck area of the chamber on this critter a few thousandths?
BTW: A little 40-82 story for your amusement. A few years back I finally settled on an accurate load for my 40-82 (1489 fps) and decided to take it to MO. for a hunt. I was sitting with my back up against a gate post watching a little draw to the south. The tree line was about 60 yards from my position with another 30 or so to the ravine bottom. Morning had just happened, and the sun was still low on the horizon. Visibility was excellent in the open, but the fence row I was watching down into the ravine was still dark and obscure. The ravine worked it's way east to west and ended up about 500-600 yards south in a bottom field we grew up calling "little Egypt". For that part of Mo. our "little Egypt" is pretty close to "no mans land" for MO. Deer regularly make the run via the ravine from LE to the higher pastures of dad's place. I'm a meat hunter, and had already passed on a 8+ point old buck that walked within 10 yards of me that morning. (I hate rank venison). So I'm sitting there waiting for the next big doe, when what appears (remember the light is poor)..to be a forked horn making his way through the shaded darkness up the ravine to the east. Forked horn...ought to be decent eating... When he got to the hog wire fence which I was sitting at, he jumped the fence and then started following it up the hill straight towards me. I readied the '86....He's facing me..head down grazing...and slowly moving my direction. I have the uphill position and I'm thinking: "If I drop one in between his shoulder blades when he has his head down...it will follow the spine for a short distance and exit out the top. No meat damage...OK?
Now since I'm an engineer...it all looks good on paper...right? So at about 60 yards, when he has his head buried in the grass...I squeeze off. I swear I've never thought a deer could bounce so hard. The 265gr Leadheads slug hit right where I put it. A solid "THUD" as he collapsed with nary a twitch. I grinned. Thought I felt the vibration through the dirt. So I wait a minute, then stretch my morning stiff limbs upwards and head to the scene. Yep...I hit him as intended....BUT...my carefully calculated exit strategy didn't work out quite so well in practical life....the 265 gr gas checked slug entered at the base of the neck between the shoulder blades and.....exited out his nut sack. I've never had to gut a more miserable mess as what that hardcast slug created between the shoulders and the privates. NOTHING internal was spared. And as for the forked horn...well he was a 6 point...and as rank as Vietnamese KimChi. But the positive note....the 40-82 is a penetrator supreme. :shock:
Ed
BTW: A little 40-82 story for your amusement. A few years back I finally settled on an accurate load for my 40-82 (1489 fps) and decided to take it to MO. for a hunt. I was sitting with my back up against a gate post watching a little draw to the south. The tree line was about 60 yards from my position with another 30 or so to the ravine bottom. Morning had just happened, and the sun was still low on the horizon. Visibility was excellent in the open, but the fence row I was watching down into the ravine was still dark and obscure. The ravine worked it's way east to west and ended up about 500-600 yards south in a bottom field we grew up calling "little Egypt". For that part of Mo. our "little Egypt" is pretty close to "no mans land" for MO. Deer regularly make the run via the ravine from LE to the higher pastures of dad's place. I'm a meat hunter, and had already passed on a 8+ point old buck that walked within 10 yards of me that morning. (I hate rank venison). So I'm sitting there waiting for the next big doe, when what appears (remember the light is poor)..to be a forked horn making his way through the shaded darkness up the ravine to the east. Forked horn...ought to be decent eating... When he got to the hog wire fence which I was sitting at, he jumped the fence and then started following it up the hill straight towards me. I readied the '86....He's facing me..head down grazing...and slowly moving my direction. I have the uphill position and I'm thinking: "If I drop one in between his shoulder blades when he has his head down...it will follow the spine for a short distance and exit out the top. No meat damage...OK?
Now since I'm an engineer...it all looks good on paper...right? So at about 60 yards, when he has his head buried in the grass...I squeeze off. I swear I've never thought a deer could bounce so hard. The 265gr Leadheads slug hit right where I put it. A solid "THUD" as he collapsed with nary a twitch. I grinned. Thought I felt the vibration through the dirt. So I wait a minute, then stretch my morning stiff limbs upwards and head to the scene. Yep...I hit him as intended....BUT...my carefully calculated exit strategy didn't work out quite so well in practical life....the 265 gr gas checked slug entered at the base of the neck between the shoulder blades and.....exited out his nut sack. I've never had to gut a more miserable mess as what that hardcast slug created between the shoulders and the privates. NOTHING internal was spared. And as for the forked horn...well he was a 6 point...and as rank as Vietnamese KimChi. But the positive note....the 40-82 is a penetrator supreme. :shock:
Ed