Reeder Custom Guns - It's not cost effective but you can

WB
It's not cost effective but you can
Monday, January 04, 2021, 20:55

simply shoot .30-30 cartridges and pull out perfectly formed cases. Provided they are not so old or brittle necked. Old brass can split. But it won't hurt anything, velocity is very low, maybe only BB gun range. I have found bullets on top of the dirt.

I'm not telling anyone to do this, but I have done some things. Like carefully shooting a 7.62x39 out of a .401 Winchester to form a case for inspection. They make wonderful usable brass.

*Just hit your blanks again with a faster powder. I sometimes neck up and shoot the original size projectile, with a lighter load, to blow out the shoulder. That is technically and classically what most call "fireforming".

This is a formed 7mm IR case that will chamber, I'll shoot it and form the shoulder and taper to the fireformed ctg. on the right.
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Need some guidance on necking-up - Ray Shepard, 2021-01-04, 19:31
- You are saying with projectile it did not fill out? - WB, 2021-01-04, 20:04
  - Forgive my novice level WB - Ray Shepard, 2021-01-04, 20:14
    - It's not cost effective but you can - WB, 2021-01-04, 20:55
- I have had no problems expanding - Blake, 2021-01-04, 19:41
  - Just tried lube inside the case - slick as pig snot. - Ray Shepard, 2021-01-04, 20:11
    - Good going Ray. This level of loading - WB, 2021-01-04, 20:59
      - sad but I enjoy playing with brass more than - Sunny, 2021-01-04, 22:52
        Fire forming - Alcorn, 2021-01-05, 06:34
        LOL, wonder if we could shoot them into an old pillow - WB, 2021-01-05, 07:58