if you can 3d print
I haven't delved into doing my own 3d printing at all and doubt that I will. Cool technology though.
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if you can 3d print
take a chunk of lead , place primer on said lead and smack it with a hammer, Magnum primers hurt your ears more.....oh and do all the safety stuff before testing.Is there any way to identify magnum vs standard large pistol primers??
I grabbed some 44 mag brass (some of which was primed) from a fellow member who inherited some reloading components and I don’t know which primers they are.
I can tell they’re probably CCI but that’s it. They’ll be used with H110 so I need to ensure they’re magnums. Then again there’s only 11 so I could save them for my 44 spl loads....
Not worth the risk.
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take a chunk of lead , place primer on said lead and smack it with a hammer, Magnum primers hurt your ears more.....oh and do all the safety stuff before testing.
I grab a handful and stand them up on my bench. Easy to spot the outliers by sighting across the tops...In
How about a way to “screen” .380 vs 9mm? I don’t shoot .380, but some brass ends up in my 9mm sometimes.
First prototype done - works fine but could use a few fixes to make it easier to use (and my models are complete hack job, back of the envelope crap right now)
Mounted it to a caffeine supply canister because they seem to breed around my house - The cover keeps dropped cases from mixing with sorted cases
About 450 cases of 7.62 NATO ready for charge and projectile. That should hold me for a while...
I do have three more family-size coffee cans worth of tumbled brass...You're going to have two FALs to feed, going to need to add a zero or two to the .308 collection![]()
Interesting. I use Hornady dies for 223 and never ran into this before. I also use Hornady bullets. Hmm. I think if you called Hornady they would probably send you a new stem or new die for free.ugh, looks like the testing of those 68gr BTHP are going to have to wait. I had to order a new Hornady seating stem that doesnt deform the bullets.
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This is why I 3d print my own - no marks and perfect fit on any bullet.ugh, looks like the testing of those 68gr BTHP are going to have to wait. I had to order a new Hornady seating stem that doesnt deform the bullets.
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6.5 Swede dies should arrive any day now.
Good to know, thanks. I've got 80 rds of PPU (plain) and 20 rounds of PPU match to start for brass (factory ammo I'll shoot first).If you ever come across the "Hotshot" brand 6.5x55mm ( I think that's what it was called; Igman, I believe), you may find the flash holes so tiny that the decap pin will get stuck and pull out of the stem.
It's usable brass, but you may want to drill the flash holes, so the pin won't bind next reload session.
For those of you who load 6.5x55 Swede, what powders do you like? In my Hornady manual I'm only really seeing Varget out of the ones I regularly buy. I haven't checked my Vihta manual yet but the powders I bought were generally for heavier cals.
Some quick Googling seems to overwhelming indicate Reloder 22 and IMR 4350, but I have no experience with either. What do you guys recommend?
For reference the first stack of bullets I bought are 140gr BT bonded soft points. Interestingly, the PPU "Match" ammo has a 19 gr lighter bullet (120 vs. 139) than their "non-match" 6.5 Swede.
I checked my 2019 Vihta manual and it has that disclaimer, but in a separate 6.5 SKAN section which appears to be for modern rifles chambered for 6.5x55. There's a section labeled "6.5x55 Swedish Mauser" which is not "bundled" with it, so that's a bit interesting. I do have some Vihta loads in my Hornady manual but not for powders I have.VV's online, published load data explicitly suggests against using their load data for M1896 Swedish Mausers, so YMMV. I also looked up Norma and their most commonly suggested powder is Norma 203-B. The first Norma cartridge looks like its for round nosed, old mil-spec style 6.5x55:
Rifle reloading - Vihtavuori
6,5x55 Swedish Mauser - Reloading Data | Norma
I checked my 2019 Vihta manual and it has that disclaimer, but in a separate 6.5 SKAN section which appears to be for modern rifles chambered for 6.5x55. There's a section labeled "6.5x55 Swedish Mauser" which is not "bundled" with it, so that's a bit interesting. I do have some Vihta loads in my Hornady manual but not for powders I have.
Hornady manual doesn't list max pressure, but the rifle they used for load development is an 1896 Mauser, so the data must be safe. The intro section on the cartridge is entirely about the m96 and m38. IMR 4350 is the first listed powder for 140gr, and the most popular I can find online for 6.5x55, so that might be something to grab a pound of.VV's online manual for both 6.5x55 SWE and 6.5x55 SKAN indicate that the max pressure for their published loads is the CIP standard of 55,110 psi, or 380 megapascals. The Swedish Mausers were proof tested at 65,992 psi or 455 megapascals according to Wikipedia.
What does your Hornady manual list for the max pressure? I'm willing to bet its either the 55k for CIP or 51k for SAAMI and that most if not all manuals use these commercial pressures as their standards.