Yeah, ok. So i bought this at an auction recently and expect delivery end of the week. As you guys might be aware the Maynard of said vintage uses a brass shell sans a primer, these shells looking rather odd IMO.
Anyways. Living over in Sweden since ages i spoke to our go to guy about brass and from the looks of it it first up is rather expensive and second of all about nil as far as available. Due Covid i guess.
That had me thinking, asking a friend that owns one for the dimensions of the cartridge...
I do own a machin shop (lathe, bridgeport, TIG et al) and as i searched the net it SEEMS that brass for the 50 Beowulf could be had to work.?
Has anyone else gone down this route? IF it indeed is on the money the 50 Beo shells would be approx 1/6th the cost of ready made brass so.. fabbing up a 100 would be doable in a heartbeat.
The rear "culot" of the case, cut off. Just a brutal delete. Then of course shorten as needed to fit the Maynard chamber.
Need be in turn add "washers" to the base of the case to resemble the OEM Maynard jobbies, to get that "flange" the originals got, just out of regular brass. In that case fab a simple jig to braze the two together.
At least my current thinking.