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Great achievement Buckstix; "where there is a will there is a way"!
Louis

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Well done mate, yes its a pain in the freckle, but hey you got there in the end!
Now for the shooting bit!

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Wow. Impressive. Way over my reloading gaf factor if I had to do it.

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Most likely you will not get a satisfactory answer from the existing Zeiss company. You asked the wrong maker. After WW2 the management and stock of the Carl Zeiss company relocated from Jena, east Germany, to west Germany and resumed production in their still existing and owned western factories, Hensoldt, Wetzlar, among them. This is the still existing “Zeiss” company. The old Zeiss factories in the east were expropriated by the commies and run as a VEB = Publicly Owned Enterprise. That east German “Zeiss” sold it’s products under the “Carl Zeiss, Jena” label until stopped doing so by lawsuits in several countries. You often find their products labeled “Auss Jena”. After German reunification Zeiss /west was not interested to take over the somewhat outdated scope work in Eisfeld, east. The factory tried to continue under a “Docter” label, but failed after a few years.
Your “Zeiss” VZF = Variables ZielFernrohr was made by that eastern company. It is marked DDR = GDR. So the existing western Zeiss company most likely has no Information on the once competing east German “Carl Zeiss, Jena” production.

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Good lathe work, buckstix. I used a similar method for converting .450 Alaskan to my .458 Alaskan (rebated rim for magnum bolt face). I ground a cutter to do the extractor groove and bevel in one plunge cut. It also easily turned the rim to proper size, so one tool to do it all.

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Hello Daryl_S
Thanks for the reply.
I tried the "one-tool" approach on the first 60 pieces of brass. The gummy brass would "pull" - resulting in in-consistent rim and groove dimensions. This step-by-step method proved to be more uniform.

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