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A note for you brass hounds out there....
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Im not sure I understand the point of brass cased steel
From a departed member of the High Road board....rcmodel
"Steel case ammo has to be coated with something to keep it from rusting into a solid lump if it gets wet.
The coating also plays a slight role in easing extraction, be it lacquer, polymer, or brass plating. The U.S. used zinc plating on the steel case ammo made in WWII.
At the time the brass plating came along, there was a lot of grumbling about the lacquer coating they previously were using causing chamber fouling & stuck cases.
Wolf went to a polymer coating and Barnaul went to the "Bi-Metal" brass coating."
1942 Evensville Chrysler .45 acp
War expediency is one thing. That was due to a materials shortage. Hell, we even minted high silver content "nickles" and steel "copper" pennies during that time period.
I've seen only .45 ACP ball ammo with steel cases.
I have a book somewhere called "Bullets by the Billion" about how Chrysler ramped up to deliver over a billion rounds of 45 ACP during WWII.
It's actually kind of an interesting read, going from a car company to one of the largest ammo producers on Earth in a few years.
It's actually kind of an interesting read, going from a car company to one of the largest ammo producers on Earth in a few years.
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