balttigger
Ultimate Member
I have a Savage Model 12 with a wildcat barrel installed. Took it to the range for its maiden voyage and was having multiple light primer strikes. After using a comparator between a factory round and a spent casing, the difference was 0.013, which tells me I have a headspace problem.
As this is a wildcat, a Go gauge is expensive and rather difficult/time consuming to come by. I have been told and read on a few pages that you can take a spent case, apply a single layer of scotch tape (which has a thickness of 0.0025" thick), insert into the chamber and run the action onto the barrel until it just touches and then tighten the barrel nut back up and it should be GTG.
Has anyone else heard of or done this?
As this is a wildcat, a Go gauge is expensive and rather difficult/time consuming to come by. I have been told and read on a few pages that you can take a spent case, apply a single layer of scotch tape (which has a thickness of 0.0025" thick), insert into the chamber and run the action onto the barrel until it just touches and then tighten the barrel nut back up and it should be GTG.
Has anyone else heard of or done this?