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emmett22405 Full Member Offline Posts: 162 Location: Virginia Joined: Sep 21^st, 2009	32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Oct 22^nd, 2024 at 4:52pm	Print Post
	Unearthed my wife's HW and she reminded me that it lay quiet for years because it split cases. Today we shot about 30 cases and some 6 were split-- 6:00 position vertically as case stands along throat and neck of case about 1/2 to 1/2 inch. Several smiths worked on it some time ago and the last one John King remarked some sort of problem with the chamber that he would fix gratis, but cant recall what the problem was. After about a year it started the splitting and by then Mr King was retired. Any ideas what the problem he discovered was--or is?? thanks


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emmett22405 Full Member Offline Posts: 162 Location: Virginia Joined: Sep 21^st, 2009	Re: 32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Reply #1 - Oct 22^nd, 2024 at 4:53pm	Print Post
	Sorry 1/4 to 1/2 inch long splits


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Old Soldier Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 278 Location: North Pole, Alaska Joined: Oct 17^th, 2015	Re: 32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Reply #2 - Oct 22^nd, 2024 at 6:17pm	Print Post
	Sounds like you chamber is too big to me. How do the un-split cases compare to unfired cases? Are they larger in diameter at the front?

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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3865 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: 32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Reply #3 - Oct 22^nd, 2024 at 7:34pm	Print Post
	I trust that the fired cases that didn't split will not be full length resized and the necks only partially sized if at all.


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Cbashooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1570 Location: Eastern Wa. Joined: Mar 31^st, 2018	Re: 32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Reply #4 - Oct 22^nd, 2024 at 8:03pm	Print Post
	could it be a 32-40 Remington chamber?


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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1752 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Re: 32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Reply #5 - Oct 23^rd, 2024 at 9:19am	Print Post
	Definitely needs to do a chamber cast and measure carefully to verify its chambering beltfed/arnie


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emmett22405 Full Member Offline Posts: 162 Location: Virginia Joined: Sep 21^st, 2009	Re: 32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Reply #6 - Oct 23^rd, 2024 at 8:26pm	Print Post
	split vs unsplit seem identical; Max accuracy requires full length resize; no it is the Winchester 32-40 chambering Today splits dropped to 1/2 yesterdays %. There was some sort of issue regarding the chambering error and i simply cant recall what it was. Perhaps John Taylor can weigh in I wiil seek private email thanks


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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11461 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: 32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Reply #7 - Oct 23^rd, 2024 at 9:05pm	Print Post
	emmett22405 wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2024 at 8:26pm: split vs unsplit seem identical; Max accuracy requires full length resize; no it is the Winchester 32-40 chambering Today splits dropped to 1/2 yesterdays %. There was some sort of issue regarding the chambering error and i simply cant recall what it was. Perhaps John Taylor can weigh in I wiil seek private email thanks You mentioned John King in your opening post. If your chamber was done by John Taylor you might get information from bpjack about his 32-40 JT chamber. As I remember it was not standard. Jack may still have the barrel.

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ndnchf Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1047 Joined: Mar 6^th, 2014	Re: 32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Reply #8 - Oct 24^th, 2024 at 7:17am	Print Post
	Maybe the brass simply needs to be annealed.


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emmett22405 Full Member Offline Posts: 162 Location: Virginia Joined: Sep 21^st, 2009	Re: 32-40 Highwall splitting about 30% of brass Reply #9 - Oct 24^th, 2024 at 3:54pm	Print Post
	It is a modern Al Story 32/40 barrel. So I know the chambering is 32-40. it was profiled and installed and chambered --believe by Al Story and a new HW breech block made by his bud who I think was named Lewis as he wrote at least one article about Al's barrels; it was sent to another smith who did nothing for over a year and finally for finish work and fixing the single set trigger to John King who discovered an error in the chambering that so upset him he called me and fixed it gratis. John Taylor has yet to see this puppy. It is about "splicing"? part of the chamber


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