Milsurpmit

Some more second guessing…

The case on the glass is the “if it has excessive headspace the primer will back out enough to cause the case to wobble” test. I don’t trust it at all and it will not even began to work with crimped-in primers.

“barely headspaced” could mean, ‘just closed on a GO gage’ This word “headspace” is often used incorrectly. The only time that a rifle is ‘headspaced’ is during chambering or setting a barrel back or changing bolts. Checking headspace is when it is measured, most common is the gage, but the tape/shim, case AND a mike works.

Headspace is not some magical thing, 0.002” one way or another is not all that important, just as long as the bolt closes on the ammo you wish to use.

If you wish to buy a gage, obtain a GO gage, a mike and use shims. This can tell you what the headspace of your rifle is, not just that it will or will not close on some gage. Slow, but one man and one rifle,, who cares.

Don’t worry about this Clymer / Forester gage BS. The only time I used my Clymer gages is when I would set up a M14/M1Aicon to function with both commercial and GI ammo. Other than this,, Foresters are fine.

Your rifle sounds OK,, shoot it.

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