buy brass for a rifle you don't own.

I won an auction for a large bag of 8x68S brass on the cheap. The thought was it can be used to form .35 Newton should the supply of Newton brass ever dry up.

It arrived the other day and it is lovely brass (mostly RWS). Now, I'm Google-fooing the hang out of ballistics, dies, rifles, stories.

Hmmm, there's a spare 1914 action just sitting there in the pile....

Why, oh why, did I do this to myself?

I've thought about building one too

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Sincerely,

Hobie

Dies, brass, holsters, grips, rifle stocks...pretty much name it.

But, this was to be different. I had a 'non-8x68' use in mind but, once in hand, we took a detour.

and Annie Lennox certainly covered that territory...howevwer, she was an amatuer by conparison to the truly dyed in the wool gun-crank.. I sare not even total the 'cost' against 'return', but hot-damn!!! It's has been great gun-fun, even at my modest level. Sail on, Hoot, to the further shores of exotic steel and walnut dreams

You could be the only guy on your block to own a .375 Hölderlin, which is CIP-certified as the 8x68 necked up.

IF an 8x68 ends up here, I'd bet pretty heavily that'd be the only one of those on the block.

a gun you don't have. I found a 299155 mould fairly cheap a while back. It is for the .32 Long Colt. So far, I have spent about $1,000 for dies, cases, guns, etc. to use it.

But I knew this was going to happen when I bought the mould. This is exactly how I got started with the 41 Long Colt about 30 years ago.