Ditto for me. I am wondering if there is a reasonable design set for combination breech seating and fixed. The thought is if there was consensus on a design or off the shelf offering that I, or a group, would buy and loan out to others. I always see it as inefficient for everyone to buy their  own reamer and use it once. I understand you don't know the quality of each individuals machining capability but ... Also, how many chambers should a standard reamer cut before it is spent?

Anyway, anxious to see the reply's to your request,
Charles

That is one thing to be very aware of as there is a 33-40 and a 33-47 and they are not one in the same. The 33-40 does not allow the bullet to be seated into a breech seater or the case as it simply uses the 32-40 case as was designed. CPA offers both and I once owned the 33-40 version and found it to be useless all though you can breech seat a bullet using a push type seater but it can also be iffy in regards to it being seated central to the bore. The 33-47 on the other hand is simply the 32-40 case blown out to 33 and obviously by far the better choice. I would think Gail at CPA might have a copy of their 33-47 reamer design that she might be able to scan and send but you also need to make it clear to her you want the 33-47 design and not their 33-40 design. 

JLouis

No, it doesn't.  How does a 32-40 case in a .33 barrel being used for BS or ML holding 47 grs of BP fit in there?   

No amount of blowing out will accommodate the additional 7 grs of BP.  The only way to do that is by BS or ML putting the bullet in front of the case.   . Should not a BS or ML .32 be properly called a .32-47?

BobZ the 33-40 would persay only hold 40 grains I would assume and having never used BP I cannot honesty say how much the 33-47 might hold? I am not sure what else you are trying to point out but with H108 smokless the 33-47 only takes 14.7 grains compared to the 32-40's 14.2 grains to achieve the same 1474fps average velocity. I know I am missing something in what you had to share I am just not sure what that might be so I am a bit confused.

JLouis

When placing the bullet into the chamber to seat it it is also laying at an angle and being pushed at that angle. By not having the nose sitting central to the bore the top of the nose is now being forced down by the upper part of the bore in it's efforts to now raise the base up to becoming more central to the bore. This has a tendency to damage the nose very slightly and could even bend it a bit if being of a long and fragile spitzer design and where the iffy comment I made comes into play. But using a seater with the bullet inserted into the case it is already being seated central to bore if the seater case is made correctly. Buy that I mean the seater case not being tapered on the inside but cylindrical and the seater plug being square and of the right size and that the seater case has been blown out to fit the chamber. The way I achieve it is by turning my seater cases out of 12L14 but if you can get your hands on a RMC case also cylindrical on the inside the chamber fit might be close enough to achieve the same. So what you end up with is the nose centering itself into the bore and the base of the bullet being well centered in the case.

JLouis

bohemianway wrote on Nov 27^th, 2018 at 4:29pm:


That is the only way I can explain how my .33-47 works.  The tapered bullet nose finds itself centered in the bore.  The bullet base and case OD are the same so it has to be centered and straight; impossible not to be. The only way it can be loaded is with a push rod as the bullet will not fit into a normal breech seater made with a case.   

When I first got this rifle, I wondered what I had got myself into.  I called Buck Emmert who was well know for shooting Pope rifles at that time. He told me 2 things.  He said everything would be fine and is was. He owned his own business like I did.  He said to price a new rifle into every job 

It appears to be an original Stevens-Pope .33-47.  No older markings.