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Hi all, a friend of mine here has just got a 500 NE 3 1/4 can he use 3" ammo? | ||
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Yes he can, but I wouldn't unless he's on Safari and that's all he has available. He'll end up burning the last 1/4 - 1/2 inch of the chamber and wearing it out so in the end, the cases will be hard to extract. Suggest it's easier to find some 3 1/4" Brass which is available - just need to look hard and ask around. | |||
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Won't the normal 3 1/4" 470 NE brass be able to be fire formed very easily to be perfectly useful for this fellow, at least here in the USA? Jack OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.} | |||
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Isn't the rim thickness on the 500 thinner than the 470? Or, am I remembering wrong? Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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I've used 470 Brass in a 500 before so yes, you could blow it out to 500. Will have to check the Specs to see if it's the same Rim thickness. | |||
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thx for the info so far, does anyone know where you can get 500 NE 3 1/4 " ammo already made. thx | |||
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Rusty, they're the same thus making the shell holders interchangable. (rim thickness on both is around .038 to .039) Dirk "An individual with experience is never at the mercies of an individual with an argument" | |||
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