Pity the man with two High walls

[Martini2]

I'd like to share a humorous event as it highlights caution too. Recently my shooting buddy and I finished some range maintenance on our 500 yd. Silhouette range here in Ohio. To fill some time we of course limbered one of his C Sharps High Walls. Names are omitted here to protect the innocent (old geezer) :-) Our mission at that moment was to empty odd lots of cartridges left over from summer's campaigns. We have shared shooter/spotter combo countless times. It was his rifle so obviously he got first shot. I dutifully lined up as spotter at 500yd. steel ringer target. He let loose and after the boom I had to confess there was no impact as normally would appear with this crack shooter. Hmmmm , At this he confirmed sights etc. and slipped another round in. This time I sat with both eyes open one on scope and at rifle report observed an impact on shorter 100 yd. berm. Also noting with my buddy there was no hit on target. Well there was some more sight adjusting and incantations while the third round was chambered. I examined one of the spent 45-70 cases an all looked OK as was observed many time before. The third round out of this very accurate shooter /rifle combo was observed to bounce some where's between the muzzle and home plate. At this there was a full investigation committee meeting We concluded and readily confirmed (you may have guessed:-) the culprit was some unnamed source had packed this 45-70 High Wall and 40-65 Ammo (Brass reformed from 45-70s)[/size][/font] for the near identical HW home in the safe Keep yer eyes open and mind on the loading bench in the new year. Happy Holidays to all. RobertB

[Old Jim]

Robert, that's a funny one, but not too funny. as at last June's Quigley I observed a party of 3 shooters dealing with like issues. One shooter owned 3 rifles, carts, ammo, etc and two others were sharing all the equipment. I believe it was 38-55 ammo going into a somewhat larger chamber in a rifle not chambered for 38-55. No one else was helping-out as some-others were also having chambering problems of their own, with overly long cartridges, fat shells, duds, fouling etc.

Our squad was a lively bunch

[Martini2]

Well Old Jim, It now may reported that all evidence of previously mentioned caliber/ chamber OOPS has been erased. Accept for a memory and lessons learned (again, as said we're Geezers ;-) The subject 45-70 hulls are once again sized to suit the 40-65 mission.
The owner of HW reported his penitence was paid while scrubbing the PB out of the barrel. We are now setting plans to empty same rounds in correct iron on New Years day. Small groups everyone, RobertB

[Nuclearcricket]

Robert, the story you tell is a fear that I once had when I contemplated getting a 40-65. To help with that problems some, I picked up some brass that had had index notches cut into the rim and also they are R-P brass and I use WW in my 45-70 for BP. I do use RP brass for my smokeless loads in the 45-70 but those are kept well separate from my BP loads. The person that cut the index notches into the 40-65 brass made it nice and big and quite visible. No mistake about it when you pick them up.
Sam

[Gunlaker]

Pity the man with two highwalls when he could have three instead :-)

I have different brass for each rifle as I generally shoot fireformed brass. I have made the mistake of bringing the wrong ammunition in the past. I learned my lesson quickly and read the labels before I load up my gear :-). Often I load my ammunition a day or two before I use it anyway so I have little on hand to mix up.

Chris.

[powderburner]

there is a reason I shoot a 2&7/8 ,a 44-77 and a 40-50 sbn really hard to mix ammo that way.

[Gunlaker]

That is a smart strategy. Probably smarter than mine. But I am having more fun than any man has a right to :-)

Chris.