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wheelgun
10-06-2005, 07:49 PM
New guy 1st post.Can anyone tell me how many grains of water the 300 whisper will hold.I just wanted to compare it to another case.
thanks.
Artful
10-07-2005, 02:20 AM
:welcome:
I'm new here also so unfortunately don't have your answer, but I know it would depend upon how you made you 300 whisper cases. If made from .221 fireball brass necked up it will differ from Military 5.56 shortened and necked down. ;)

Which way are you going to be making your 300 Whisper brass? :confused:
Artful
10-07-2005, 02:26 AM
Oh, and according to John Donnelly's Cartridge conversion book the
221 fireball has 21.34 grains of water for case capacity if that helps.
wheelgun
10-10-2005, 11:24 AM
:welcome:
I'm new here also so unfortunately don't have your answer, but I know it would depend upon how you made you 300 whisper cases. If made from .221 fireball brass necked up it will differ from Military 5.56 shortened and necked down. ;)

Which way are you going to be making your 300 Whisper brass? :confused:

I don't have a whisper but I have been working on building a sort of a wildcat.Its been done before i think I'm necking down a 357 Maximum case to .308 the case capacity might be close to whisper.
thanks.
Artful
10-11-2005, 02:05 AM
same book lists .357 Maximum as 31.08 gr's of water