This arrived in Anchorage today:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=469275951

I'm waiting on the Anschutz Hornet to arrive - hopefully tomorrow - and I can pick them both up on Saturday.

Paul

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Paul

Can't wait for the range report.

Interesting caliber.

Actually, I should get to that before too long as the seller asked me to pass on the information from the range report. First time I've had a seller ask that.

Paul

When I look at that case and cartridge, I think, .44-40 ***XXL!
What a neck, makes most pore giraffes look stubby.

I am curious about the penchant to make cartridges with long necks 'back in the day'. I know bullets were often 'long', but the fact is that just preceding the cartridge era, there was no case - therefore NO neck - at all. Therefore, why would cartridge designers want long necks? I understand their ideas about tapered cases - fear of not being able to extract cases - but the long neck reasoning evades me.

Paul

As the first cases were made out of wrapped brass not drawn it was probably to do with the case making and forming/wrapping. The first .45 Martini cases were long and only very slightly tapered but too fragile for field use to the Short chamber which is what we know as the 577/450 came into being as it was sturdier in handling. Their cases were also folded brass wrapper around a mandrel.................................. at first until they devloped the drawing method.

Just a thought!

That sounds plausible. Wanted to "grab" the longer bullets because of the relatively rough handling they would get in military use, which WAS the defining use of "cartridges". You're probably right, BH.

Paul

Check out this cape gun.

http://usedguns.com.au/Product.aspx?p=53217

Nice, deep engraving. I'd like to see more pictures. It has the nice horn trigger guard that my Collath had.

Paul