Forums.NitroExpress.com

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact NitroExpress.com: What bullets for the 9x56ms?

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies

*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

You are not logged in. [Login]

Main Index · Search · Active Topics
New user · Who's Online · FAQ · Calendar

Shooting & Reloading - Mausers, Big Bores and others >> Mannlicher Discussion forum & Archive

Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all)

kuduae
.400 member

Reged: 13/01/10
Posts: 1792
Loc: middle of Germany

Re: What bullets for the 9x56ms? [Re: DarylS]
#366638 - 12/06/22 06:19 AM

For some time now I am working on loads for a Mannlicher – Schoenauer M 1905 in 9x56 M-S

I never encountered the same problems with any 9x57 Mauser, rimless or rimmed, rifle barrel. As my barrel is of .357” groove diameter, shooting .358” bullets from reformed 8x57 brass should not be a problem but it was. A chamber cast revealed the culprit: As Daryl_S noted above, P.O.Ackley once experimented with oversized bullets in grossly undersized barrels. His findings: It’s not the undersized barrel that raises pressure, but the too tight chamber neck and throat dimensions that allow no case neck expansion to release the bullet. Well, the Austrians had found out the same thing 40 years earlier, in 1916, when they adapted tens of thousands of conquered Russian Moisin – Nagant rifles to use their own 8x50R Mannlicher cartridges by simply rechambering with a generous neck and forcing cone and shot their .324” bullets through the.313” groove barrels. But in 1905 the Steyr people apparently did not know this. The chamber cast revealed an undersize neck area with barely 9.68 mm, even a tad below the now CIP minimum of 9.7 mm = .382”. Maybe a worn chambering reamer? Comparing the CIP numbers for the 9x56 M-S and the 9x57 Mauser revealed the general problem. As both cartridges use the same 9.08 mm = .357” bullets, the chamber and case neck diameters differ considerably: Max cartridge neck diameter of the M-S is 9.65 mm = .380” vs. 9.83 mm =.387” of the Mauser. Minimum Chamber neck is 9.7 mm = .382” vs. 9.88 mm = .389”. So the 9x56 M-S chamber has much less leeway regarding variations in bullet or case neck thickness. My solution: I will open up the neck area of my chamber with a 9.9 mm = .390” reamer.

Post Extras:

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

DarylS
.700 member

Reged: 10/08/05
Posts: 27014
Loc: Beautiful British Columbia, Ca...

Re: What bullets for the 9x56ms? [Re: kuduae]
#366641 - 12/06/22 08:24 AM

Chambering reamer manufacturers and gun companies & reloading die manufacturers, all have minimum and maximum tolerances for their tooling & thus how ctgs. fit their chambers.
Tight chambers exist as do loose or larger chambers. Old, oft-times re-sharpened reamers vs brand new reamers. It happens.
My buddy brad had a brand new 6.5x55 Ruger M77 from which WW brass sized in RCBS dies, would not hold a bullet as the dies did not squeeze the case tightly enough. The dies were probably made with a brand new reamer. RP brass and Fed brass worked just fine, having thicker neck walls.

Some reamer makers in the States make "chucking reamers" which can be used for opening up chamber necks. These were fairly inexpensive a few years ago (maybe 10?) & were made in .001" increments.
I don't know if this or these types of reamers are also made in Europe.

--------------------
Daryl

"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

Post Extras:

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all)

Extra information

1 registered and 17 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator: CptCurl

Print Topic

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Topic views: 2510

NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact

Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved