Instead of incessant trial and error is there a method to determine what OAL will work in a given gun? I suppose that it would be too much to ask for a given OAL to work in all repo Spencers?
Can you imagine your Winchester being a crap shoot to feed as is the Spencer? Of course the Winchester's lifter gives one a very good jump on where to set the length. I have 3 44-40's ... they all shoot the ammo. Does the spencer have such a measuring point ... that does not require trial and error until, by surprise, you draw a lucky number that will let TWO rounds feed without jamming?
It would seem that the originals, with more than one mfgr of ammo, could deal with variations. Sure the originals had pointed bullets, and current must be flat nose. But, for $2000 it should be able to handle "standard" ammo?
Beginning to wonder if it has more to do with sloppy tolerances than ammo.
Frustrated. Suggestions? Comments?
Thanks in advance.
David