question on headspacing

[icormba]

I checked Midway and Brownell and neither have 7.62x54R field gauges. I found one manufacturer, Yankee Engineering:

http://hometown.aol.com/yankeng/myhomepage/business.html

A business (esp engineering) with an aol domain does not give me much confidence. Can someone recommend a good gauge and a supplier?

I have a few Forster guages for various calibers, I haven't had any issues with them and they ship pretty fast! I'm thinking my 7.62x54r and 8mm Mauser are Forsters, but I'm not at home to check right now.

http://www.forsterproducts.com/

edit: I don't see the 7.62x54r guages on there, I'll have to check them when I get home tonight.

[Zwingli]

Be careful on the tape on the back of the casing head space test. As I understand it and am open to correction. First it cannot be a fired casing as the dimensions may have changed in the process of firing. Second it needs to be a round that you're sure the demensions of--like a national match round or something. Third, shouldn't be a live round either Forth milsurp ammo/cheap ammo is made to run with mud, pancakes and a slice of bacon in the chamber so definatly don't use those. Unless you really know whats up I wouldn't suggest it.

[M. Sage]

I didn't bother. Every case that comes out of my 91/30 has a nice ring on the shoulder, even the steel cases, and it hasn't gone kaboom, so it seems Ok. :P

They were refurbished before they were put away, I don't know if they headspaced them, but I understand they were test-fired for checking/adjusting the sights at the least. It'd be a good idea to check, yeah, but the odds of a problem seem pretty low, IMO.