Amigo
"By the way has anyone here ever made a complete cartridge? Case,
powder, primer and bullet.(all made by you, not any bought parts)
Been toying with the idea of making one complete round all by myself." (KSR)
I couldn't have proven my point better! Thank you, KSR!
KSR
I can't imagine the equipment needed to draw and form the case, and as a teenager I made my own black powder, but drew the line at making a single base nitrocellouse powder 'cause I knew I wasn't, am not, and never will be, enough of a chemist to understand what I'm doing and thus will never be able to do it to my standards of safety. Just the thought of mixing up some priming material scares the heck out of me. I'm not afraid to admit my limitations. (But I sure can write a sentence! Hemmingway I'm not.)
Even Black Powder turns out to be much more complicated than I originally thought, read some of the Mad Monk's work. I'm thoroughly intimidated.
That's one place I won't go, curious or not.
Wayne the Shrink