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Thread: Shrimp of a ‘Crimp’ and the effects ,,,,,

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    Yes, the folks that run this forum do a good job of keeping things civilized.

    Your 'MRP' brass puzzled me until looking it up here... https://www.cartridgecollectors.org/headstampcodes ...showed it to be made in Brasil for Magtech. The few cases I have from Magtech have a 'CBC' headstamp and are made in the same place as your 'MRP' cases. The thinnest case wall thickness I measured on the three 'CBC' cases was 0.0084" (0.21mm).

    For comparison, the case with the greatest minimum thickness I've ever measured was from Armscor with an AP10 headstamp at 0.0103" (0.26mm) and the thinnest was 0.0071" (0.18mm) on an old R-P Targetmaster case. When measuring for case wall thickness, I probe for the thinnest (and thickest) spot on the assumption the sized case can grip the bullet no better than its thinnest section will allow (sort of the weakest link theory, I guess).

    Q: If you've measured your 'MRP' cases, how thin were they?
    When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. [Lord Kelvin]
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    I don't have any 'CBC' stamped 45ACP brass at hand but in all other calibers they are usually very good, reloadable cases. That's why I was surprised to learn about the origins of the MRP stamped ones.

    As well as I can measure them with my simple vernier calipers the MRP brass are 0.009" (0.23mm) at the mouth.

    S&B are 0.011" (0.28mm), PPU, Federal and PMC too.

    Geco, Starline and Fiocchi/G.F.L. (three more favourites) all 0.012" (0.31mm).

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    I gave up on vernier calipers years ago for measuring case wall thickness and invested in a good tubing micrometer fitted with a ball attachment on the spindles flat end:
    P(08)3170001b Getting A Grip Post 9.jpg
    It does a much better job of avoiding too-large measurements by getting to the bottom of surface irregularities. Here's a link to few dozen case measurements using it:
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
    When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. [Lord Kelvin]
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    This chart contains information like the one in Post #10 plus some additional stuff:
    Case Grip Chart.jpg
    The handload was run only through the Lee CFC dies lower sizing ring and not the upper crimping section. Case OD measurements shown for it were taken at the base of the bullet and at the same diametric position.
    When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. [Lord Kelvin]
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