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Here you will find news about events that have happened or are about to happen. Members can publish their articles here by emailing text documents and/or photographs to the PR Officer.

NOTE:  The Safety Training Course scheduled for 10th November 2007 11:00 am will be advanced to
3rd November 2007 11:00 am



.303 Bugle by Kevin Speer

This 1918 Lithgow MK3 No.1 still shoots well enough and with the few modifications shown in the
pictures is capable of playing the "Last Post" and other bugle calls.





Reloading Centrefire Ammo by Kevin Speer

One aspect of reloading is the importance of maintaining the ideal case length.
If the case is allowed to “grow” due to numerous firings and resizing, eventually the case will foul the forward end of the chamber and can cause the projectile to be pinched which will cause extreme high pressures possibly damaging the firearm and the shooter.

I was never happy with the hit and miss method provided by a leading case trim manufacturer. The collet never seemed to grip each case in the same place, resulting in cases being trimmed to various lenths.This could only be overcome by constant measuring with vernier caliphers.
So I decided to replace the collet with a pin which fits into the primer cavity. This works well and is extremely accurate. Once set to the desired length they all finish up the same length.
Having a wood lathe sitting idle I decided to mechanize the trimmer and drive it via a drill chuck in the headstock just needed a pulley and a knob on the end for feed.
This got me to thinking about the other time consuming task of removing the internal and external burrs, so I added these features plus a cavity filled with 0000 steel wool.

This setup works well and really speeds up the process.
When I am reloading with new brass, even though it may be less than the maximum length I still take a light cut to square up the neck which ensures a good release of the projectile.

You will notice the drive belts in the pictures. Always knew I would find a good use for the “Caterpillar” O rings I had stashed away for more years than I admit to.

The last picture shows a device I made for straightening bullets after assembly.
Using this device on a batch of new reloads - it's amazing the amount of run out of the bullets from the same seating die, some are perfect and others may be up to 0.007” out of true.

Happy Shooting Kevin Speer

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