This thread was "NEVER" Gauge specific, it was about instituting a proof house which would of course proof all gauges.
OF Course Larry, those old guns with long chambers were never intended for modern Magnum loads, no-one has stated otherwise. My Question has been "WHY" do you want to proof them for such. Slowly we are educating folks not to stick SAAMI spec shells in the older guns, but to either load special shells or purchase shells made for them.
If we give SAAMI the job of proofing these guns they will proof them to SAAMI specs. I don't want my old timers proofed to these higher specs, even though I have little doubt that they would pass it. Futhermore I don't want to encourage others to feed their's a steady diet of these heavier loads. Putting a mark on them that they had passed a maximum proof certainly would do nothing to encourage buying higher priced pecial shells for them, much more convenient to run to to the mart & pick up some regular ones.
I'm throuh, lets just say I am Agin ths proofing bit & lt it go a that.
