Originally Posted by
Bill Wylde
You just never visited my basement, Chris. When I would go to Ottawa, several cases would be waiting. When my friends came South, they knew the entry fee.:) My Grandchillens will have to work hard to get rid of it!
The SR 8.2 would have been for the 69s and some of Jimmy Knox's 70-75 VLDs. You have probably never hit cool weather with that 8.2.......I was really fortunate in those development days to have Boots Obermeyer and Jack Krieger. The bullets were coming fast and those gentlemen were coming fast with the barrels. I remember well one time when I asked Jack Krieger to make some .218 bore barrels. He was screaming about having to buy a new reamer. If you were to ask him today, wonder what he might say? Boots had already made some .217 bore barrels, so was good to go with that. Those barrels just plain worked! The end for me was 7.7" twist for the SR and 8" for the MR.
Most of the SS-109 type ammo was complete garbage. I still have a bit of all of it, thinking it might mean something to history at some point. Problem with that is that few care.