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Post by hacker54 on Jun 27, 2019 21:35:21 GMT -5
Those that have a good background in shot shells know there is no difference between the two except the length of the brass head. Today the length is all part of marketing. You might remember from the old "Hub House" when I posted about my "Activ" hulls in 20 and 12 gauge as these had NO brass head at all. The "Activ" hull were molded around a steel washer that did two main things. To hold the primer and to give the extractors a good purchase hold to extract the shell. To me these were great to reload as you didn't have to mess with resizing the head. OK now back to the brass. I came across some info on how we got the high and low brass. I think you might find this video interesting.
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Post by SnapShot on Jun 27, 2019 22:06:07 GMT -5
Thanks, Gary ~
Very informative and enforces what I have been taught all along.
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Post by bob on Jun 27, 2019 22:59:25 GMT -5
Interesting. Though not a shotshell loader and mostly in agreement with the video, the speaker should do a bit more research. Magnum shotshells were not originally designated by brass height but rather by cartridge length,it wasn't 'till the '60s that the 2-3/4"magnums" were popularized high or low brass wether stronger or not the low brass was generally an indication of powder/shot charge. If I remember 20 ga. were 7/8, 1, and 1-1/8 oz loads 7/8 oz being "low brass" 1 oz and 1-18 oz being high brass standard and magnum respectively.
Gary, thanks for the video regardless of my comments.
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Post by poohzilla on Jun 28, 2019 16:13:23 GMT -5
Hacker, myths like that die hard ! Nice post ! Bob, I think you're right about the marketing aspect. Back in the day, I had customers who were really emphatic that they needed "them high brass ones". We supplied them and we and the brass salesmen made some $$$ !
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My daughter came from Missouri, my son and grand son, my wife and I had a nice dinner of grilled "porter house" pork chops, corn on the cobb, my son, G'son and I share 10/5. G'son is 4 minutes early though @ 10/4.
Pooh I hope you find to right house . 
