Thread: Wilcats and Pressure

Originally Posted by L.R

However it beats the science you are using spanner. Ignoring the strain gauge and trying to tell others they are just under loading. That may be the case, but you have no idea of the brass or action yield points so you just don't know how safe it is? This is not ideal if you want to sell it to customers. Also have you considered the massive reduction in therotical barrel life that that extra 20k will give you?

Wooo - hold up - noones running 88k
If barrel life is an issue when you're poking $1.50 worth of powder and $4-5 pills down the tube, with $4k of scope on top and a $6k range finder sitting beside you, then I think you maybe in the wrong game.

How can a strain gauge be used to determine its safe?
Lets say in a moment of fantasy, that the pressure is 100% correct, you have a magic number of what that pressure is in the fired case- now what?

You realise that if you have to use a FL sizing die or any die, then the brass has past its elastic limit and yielded? this happens with almost EVERY rifle caliber from the last 100 or so years.
You would agree that if you can fire a case 5 times without FL sizing, that you are below the yield point of the brass and operating within its elastic limit?