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Okay you smart folks out there...
I found some fired .357 brass last year laying at the range. I got all excited because one doesn't find revolver brass for free very often. Woo hooo free brass! After I got them clean and shiny I notice that they have odd necks. By odd, I mean that they are "necked" down looking right above the brass cannelure where a factory projectile would seat. Also, there are fine scratch marks like a rough die (very constiently spaced) that go down to the cannelure mark.
Very curious. It reminds me of a fluted chamber in an H&K but only on the neck. And it looks more like scratches. I'm not aware of any revolver that would leave fired brass looking like that.
Is there some kind of conversion I'm not aware of? What about that Coonan .357 automatic? Anybody got one? Would the chamber do that to the brass?
The inside neck dimension on a fired case measures .343 . Some kind of goofy wildcat?
Headstamp is .357 mag in several brands of brass. Really odd. Never seen anything quite like it.
I'm still going to load it light once and send it downrange.
I hope what I'm talking about shows in the pics.
I found some fired .357 brass last year laying at the range. I got all excited because one doesn't find revolver brass for free very often. Woo hooo free brass! After I got them clean and shiny I notice that they have odd necks. By odd, I mean that they are "necked" down looking right above the brass cannelure where a factory projectile would seat. Also, there are fine scratch marks like a rough die (very constiently spaced) that go down to the cannelure mark.
Very curious. It reminds me of a fluted chamber in an H&K but only on the neck. And it looks more like scratches. I'm not aware of any revolver that would leave fired brass looking like that.
Is there some kind of conversion I'm not aware of? What about that Coonan .357 automatic? Anybody got one? Would the chamber do that to the brass?
The inside neck dimension on a fired case measures .343 . Some kind of goofy wildcat?
Headstamp is .357 mag in several brands of brass. Really odd. Never seen anything quite like it.
I'm still going to load it light once and send it downrange.
I hope what I'm talking about shows in the pics.