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    Quote Originally Posted by Maillemaker View Post
    How much are Charlie Hahn's aluminum cases? I don't see them listed on his web site. The brass ones are about $2.60 a piece from Lodgewood. Holy Cow! We were doing some testing of a Maynard just yesterday and the plastic cases were disintegrating on us. Looks like a neat little gun (first time I have ever fired one) but man you're looking at close to $300 just get 100 pieces of brass!

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    Sure is an interesting thread. GREAT primer on the Maynard. Steve, you have some shocks waiting for you down the road when you leave Huntsville Abby.
    Seems like, I repeat, seems like the plastic cases have to split in the Harpers Ferry with the extra windage. Plastic wont stretch like aluminum or brass. As Raider says, the metal cases last a long time so it's a capital investment, alongside the gun. I'll add here, my brass Maynard cases never split, maybe because I use this really small tapered bullet out of a Dixie hair curler mould I bought in, I'm not sure, I think it was in 1936. I use 28 grains of powder -- I use a full capacity case and shove the bullet down upon the powder. That leaves the upper part of the case open for a huge dollop of Crisco. Huge amounts of lube are the key to breach loader success.
    The BB is certainly an open minded forum, and I absolutely have nothing against Hindus, but Steve please leave your cow tribulations out.

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    I don't really have a dog in this fight - our team had a load workup practice last weekend and one of our teammates was trying out a Maynard on loan to them. We were getting keyholes at 50 yards. I don't know what the load was. I just noticed that they were having problems with the open ends of the cases separating from the rest of the case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maillemaker View Post
    I'm a Sharps guy. My cartridges are made out of paper the way God intended.





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    Yeah you talk big. One of these days one of our finest will check on you and ask you about all those "doobies" you're carting around. Hopefully he wont ask you to light one up so he can check the smell.

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    Well........I've never thought of rolled Sharps cartridges as "Doobies"......but now that you mention it......

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    When I first posted pictures of US expanding ball cartridges on facebook one of my friends asked me if they were "exploding tampons".

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    Hopefully he wont ask you to light one up so he can check the smell.


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    "When I first posted pictures of US expanding ball cartridges on facebook one of my friends asked me if they were "exploding tampons".

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    Well I sure wouldn't want to be in poor Maelstromaker's shoes. I recall Fort Leonard in the Woods in early '68, I got a call from an eagle eyed agent of the F, B of I. He had a lock on a poor trooper who had possession of an illicit army rocket launcher. He called me at the ammo dump to get details on just what it was. I asked what was printed on the launcher, he said M-72, 66 mm LAW. There was no rocket present so I told him it's just a throw away launcher. He was disconsolate at this answer. He then asked me to refer him to a higher authority, which I did. The G-men may still be after this poor dude.

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    I was able to get a good measurement on my HF Maynard chamber and it is at about .560 -.562 according to my cheap digital caliber. This is what others have mentioned about HF Maynards. As far as plastic cases, on the one time I fired this gun about 1/3 of the cases split at the base. I will try them again with two or three wraps of cellophane tape around the bottom of the case. Maybe that will be enough to prevent them from splitting.
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