Originally Posted By: 2-piper
To paraphrase Burrard "NO" shell should be fired if the crimp is pushed/forced into the forcing cone, thus placing a restriction on the opening of the crimp.
I believe this would virtually always apply if a 3" shell was fired from the 2˝"/65mm chamber.
Yes, you might do it & not blow up the gun, but "NO" it is not a sound practise.


Miller, don't you mean if a hull opens in the bore past the forcing cone? Even Parker wanted the hulls to open partially into the forcing cone.

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