Lead, lead, led & leade

[SgtDog0311]

Hey There Wayne, Glad you posted this.

Lots of disagreement on terminology, some because knowledgeable folks call portions of the chamber and leade one thing and others just as knowledgeable call it another.

Throat is another one that different folks have in their head to mean something specific, or in some cases not as specific. I generally mean the conical portion of the chamber that transitions from freebore diameter to groove diameter, before the beginning of the leade. I once thought that conical angle generally followed the same angle as the leade, but that is not the case in most of my chamber casts

I think according to a more stringent definition the throat is actually everything past where case mouth meets freebore - to that point where the leade reaches its full height. So that would include freebore, throat taper and leade angle.

At least that’s my understanding, and I sure hope you don’t debunk it because it took me a long while to finally get to that through my thick head:-)