Reloading first timer with a few questions! Humour me :) 303 british

[antiqueguy]

And this is what happens when you fire click....................bang surplus Pakistani .303 ammunition during a Enfield mad minute and open the bolt too soon. The front of the case is sucked into a black hole and the rear of the case blows the magizine into the ground. The shooter wasn't injured by his wife complained loudly when she washed his underwear.

and that right there is why i dont touch paki ammo also look how thin it is by the case head its even worse then the old balloon head stuff made here

 

[bigedp51]

my experince with greek hxp is not a good one but i'll save that for others to find out i only use prvi the case is very close to that of the mk 7 ball and ive had the same cases for about 2 years now

I'm an American and in Enfield forums the British and Australian forum members who had Greek HXP cases couldn't understand my obsession with having tight headspace. Meaning these "foreigners" were not having their cases stretching as badly as I was with American Winchester and Remington cases.

As No.3 bolt heads got harder to find here in the U.S. I remembered reading the o-ring posting at Milsurps.com by TerryinVictoria six year before and gave it a try. I do not worry about bolt heads and just fireform my cases and neck size only. But I did experiment testing headspace length from the boltface just kissing the rear of the case to .010 over max headspace or .084 and checking case stretching. The o-ring trick works but some people scoff at the idea and if they do then creating a false shoulder can also be done for fire forming.

When I tested the Prvi Parizan cases I realized these cases were made to military standards and no other case here in the U.S. could touch it for reloading case life. The strange part was I ordered 500 once fired HXP cases From Brian #### here in the U.S. and these HXP case were fired in a varity of machine guns and Enfield rifles. Not one of these cases after checking them on my RCBS case mastering gauge had "ANY" thinning in the web area checking each case at three separate locations.

TerryinVictoria load was 38 grains of 4895 and a 150 grain Hornady spire point bullet and getting long case life.

Needless to say it was our American cartridge cases giving the British rifle a bad rap and not the American excuse of a poor rifle design causing the problem after testing cases.

 

[antiqueguy]

I'm an American and in Enfield forums the British and Australian forum members who had Greek HXP cases couldn't understand my obsession with having tight headspace. Meaning these "foreigners" were not having their cases stretching as badly as I was with American Winchester and Remington cases.

As No.3 bolt heads got harder to find here in the U.S. I remembered reading the o-ring posting at Milsurps.com by TerryinVictoria six year before and gave it a try. I do not worry about bolt heads and just fireform my cases and neck size only. But I did experiment testing headspace length from the boltface just kissing the rear of the case to .010 over max headspace or .084 and checking case stretching. The o-ring trick works but some people scoff at the idea and if they do then creating a false shoulder can also be done for fire forming.

When I tested the Prvi Parizan cases I realized these cases were made to military standards and no other case here in the U.S. could touch it for reloading case life. The strange part was I ordered 500 once fired HXP cases From Brian #### here in the U.S. and these HXP case were fired in a varity of machine guns and Enfield rifles. Not one of these cases after checking them on my RCBS case mastering gauge had "ANY" thinning in the web area checking each case at three separate locations.

TerryinVictoria load was 38 grains of 4895 and a 150 grain Hornady spire point bullet and getting long case life.

Needless to say it was our American cartridge cases giving the British rifle a bad rap and not the American excuse of a poor rifle design causing the problem after testing cases.

the greek hxp are made by hornady BTW