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I have removed the front part of a separated case from my 303 with a 375 jag just forced and turned into neck of it.

Very neat. Have rethought the bonnet catch idea. Am rather going to have a hinged curved arm on the top with rubber on its inside edge. Will have it pivoting on a thumbscrew so that it can be secured against the top of the shottie barrel/s.

The wood is glued together, before held with coach screws.

All pieces are supported, so there is no torque when the rifle is heavy.

View of under-side.

Very nice design, consider it stolen. All I'll add is a pair of those ball end rubber bonnet catches like they used on Baja bugs for holding shotgun barrels

I wanted a second stand to clean rifles on, and I was a little taken aback by what they cost now.

This is made from what I had lying around, I did go buy the 1 meter lengths of steel tube, the endcaps for it and the 75mm square wood.

Quote from: Treeman on Jun 21, 2025, 11:42 PMI did exactly this and it did not work, so I tried epoxy and it did not work. So i tried super glue again and it worked. I then could not chamber around, some glue had squeezed into the chamber. I ended up having a chamber reamer run through barrel to clean the fkup out. $$$

If you lose the case head when un-chambering the fired round, you can extract the case with a cleaning rod and a old fashioned brass jag tightly wrapped with a strip of material.

Just push the wrapped jag into the case from the chamber end till it exits the case mouth, then pull it.

I once helped someone at a shoot with a 338 Lapua like that, he was about to go scratching in the barrel with a piece of bloudraad.

The top piece is once fired, resized with the sizing die in it's new state. When I pull my fingernail down the neck, I feel a sharp ridge at the neck should junction. About 16 pieces are affected like this, only two don't chamber, I'll have to neck turn after the next firing to remove it.

The second and third pieces are case re-forming tests from the scrap pile, and after applying the fine valve grinding paste to the die, there is no ridge from material on the neck being forced down.

The second piece shows a line just above the shoulder, because the brass was neck turned during it's life, 375 sized down to .338.

The third piece shows a clean, smooth resize, a 375 H&H sized down to .338.

Quote from: Ds J on Jun 22, 2025, 07:05 AMThey closed down shortly after.

Well at least there was that. I try to think myself into the heads of shortsighted skelms sometimes and consistently fail.

This one wasn't fat, but not thin either. Just a regular carcass of a younger animal. I'll have a chat with the butcher.



Horror stories: at one particular butchery in a town nearby, a friend handed in a 150kg carcass and got back 43kg. At the same butchery, an acquaintance handed in a headshot kudu and got back a bag of bloodshot wildebees pieces. They closed down shortly after.