Alllen Bundy
Member
Now you'all have triggered my OCD! I have already been checking every cartridge for over-all length and weeding out the outliers.
Checking the shell case lengths may not be so important for range ammo, but it's critical that your self defense ammo is as close to 100% reliable as possible.
It's easy enough to pull the barrel from my pistol, drop a round into the combustion chamber and measure the overall all length and separate the excessively long shell cases. You could probably just eyeball the way the cartridge sits inside the combustion chamber and call it good.
This is what podcasts are for.
Checking the shell case lengths may not be so important for range ammo, but it's critical that your self defense ammo is as close to 100% reliable as possible.
It's easy enough to pull the barrel from my pistol, drop a round into the combustion chamber and measure the overall all length and separate the excessively long shell cases. You could probably just eyeball the way the cartridge sits inside the combustion chamber and call it good.
This is what podcasts are for.