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Hi all,
I have to make up a few dummy rounds, no primer or propellant just a seated bullet in a case. I've got to figure out a cycling problem in a Marlin 1894 .32-20 lever gun I just bought.
Given that its going to be run through a tubular magazine probably many times, I figured on top of a heavy crimp I'm going to need a compressed filler as well, something granular and reasonably hard, around the weight of smokeless that has big enough grains not to fit through a flash hole, and won't break into fragments that will. Nothing mineral or metal that would grit or jam up the action if any did make it through the flash hole,
The best thing I can come up with is white rice.
Anybody have any ideas or experience to lend?
Many thanks.
I have to make up a few dummy rounds, no primer or propellant just a seated bullet in a case. I've got to figure out a cycling problem in a Marlin 1894 .32-20 lever gun I just bought.
Given that its going to be run through a tubular magazine probably many times, I figured on top of a heavy crimp I'm going to need a compressed filler as well, something granular and reasonably hard, around the weight of smokeless that has big enough grains not to fit through a flash hole, and won't break into fragments that will. Nothing mineral or metal that would grit or jam up the action if any did make it through the flash hole,
The best thing I can come up with is white rice.
Anybody have any ideas or experience to lend?
Many thanks.