Froggie,
Thanks for the post.
Not to extend this discussion unnecessarily,
if Charlie Dell used a milk carton wad at the case mouth, why put another just over / close to the powder.?
I presume the others who have had success with floral foam just at the case mouth did so to just to keep the powder in the case while handling before breech seating the projectile..
I imagine in those instances where there is less than 50% of the available case utilized for powder such a practice would eliminate the chance for flash over.
Better, more consistent ignition maybe..?
Green_Frog wrote on Oct 3
rd, 2022 at 10:44am:
Just to add a little more background info, the late Charlie Dell did extensive testing with barrel ringing and claimed he could produce ringing on demand with just a few shots. Naturally his idea was to avoid the practices that brought about this phenomenon.
At the end of his career he settled on a regimen to maximize accuracy while minimizing the factors that encourage ringing. He was shooting his 32/357, similar to the 32 Miller Short, and his powder of choice was early Accurate #7 with H 108 running second. First, he used a cork over-powder wad that left 1/10-1/8” of space over the powder to allow the face of the powder to “slump” slightly. He maintained that starting with a highly defined flat charge face was the main cause of ringing, but that just a small angle prevented it. In addition he used a waxed card wad, cut from orange juice style cartons, to seal the case. This was right at the case mouth.
Charlie never explained to me completely why the card wad was necessary or even helpful, and to be honest, I eliminated it in my regimen and could never see any difference.
There may be other methods that work, but this one has never, to my knowledge, produced ringing. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding (or in this case in the shooting).
Regards,
Froggie
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