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[muffett.2008]

Great day at the Range yesterday.....took a couple of No.5's out for a bit of a run on the falling plates.

The BSA 1946 went like a train, once I adjusted the sights, but the 1945 Faz gave me lots of grief.
This rifle and it's mate spend a lot of time in the safe, years between outings in fact.

Well I had long forgotten that the Faz would not handle anything other than factory ammo.

For some reason the chamber was cut fractionally short, not 7.7x54 short, just a few thou. in the shoulder, enough to stop my full length sized cases chambering.

Now before you ask, yes I do separate brass for individual rifles, but with over 50 L.E's remembering whats what can sometimes be a bit of a pain, 'specially as the H barrels in my Lithgows are all pretty tight and can mix and match without much trouble, as opposed to my Brit's that seem to do weird things to brass.(even the light Lithgow barrels of the interwar years are pretty good, whereas the war year ones leave a bit to be desired.)

Now I full length size depending on cases using either a press mounted die for the run of mill rifles, or a vice die for the more finicky ones, but with this Faz, I had to make up a seating base to push the case just that fraction further into the die......having totally forgotten this, I caused myself all sorts of grief and did some serious swearing at myself, made worse by forgetting how much my No.4T bites if you crawl up the scope, I guess it's like a Ghurkas kukri, gotta draw blood, in this case mine.

So all in all, a bit of a painful day, always been tempted to unscrew the barrel and run a chamber reamer in to sort this problem, it might happen, but then again, in another few years and with a bit more age, I will have totally forgotton again.

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