Building obsolete cases

[twomoons]

I am spending the day buillding up some more cases for the Remington rimless rifles I have. I took rimmed 30-30 cases and made them into 25-30 and 32 Remington. There are no more 32 and 25 made and the 30's are rare as hens teeth so I use W/W 30-30 brass. I have a couple cutters for the lathe and I first cut the rims off just under the base diameter of the case. Then i use another cutter to cut in the rebated rim. This is all done with jigs so the new rims are within 2 thousands of each other, somewhat better than factory. Then it's off to the dies and each case is sized in the appropriate die and a cast bullet is seated so when the round is chambered the ogive of the bullet pushed against the rfiling. This seats the case back into the breech tight for fire forming. Then I fire form each case with 7.5 grains of Red Dot. After fire forming the cases are cleaned and polished and are ready to go.

[Bill]

Thats worse than making my .25-06 AI brass. I have to neck turn each case neck to .011 thickness all the way down till the case will just fit into the chamber. Then I load it up with a standard .25-06 load and go shoot them. This blows out the shoulder and makes them fit the chamber right.
At the same time the ridge where the neck turning stops and you transition into the shoulder becomes smooth. Then you have to use an inside neck turner to get the donut out as that ridge that disappeared is now on the inside of the case. Then when I reload them again I use a necksizing die with only a decaping stem to deprime and only resize it enough to get about .002 neck tension on the bullet and when it fires I will actually only expand enough to let the bullet out which will be .0015. Really improves the accuracy but I will never build a tight neck chambered rifle again. Too much work for the small bit of accuracy you get.

[Jack]

Twomoons, that's a lot of work to make feed for an old rifle, but, reloading projects like that can be satisfying, too.

[jmarriott]

Must be nice to be able to do that yourself. Poor people like myself have to pay starline to get weird out of circulation brass.

I did pick up 100 of 222 rem mag brass of gunbroker. Did not break the bank either at 19.86 and shipping.

[Jack]

Remington and Nosler still make 222 Remington magnum brass. The Nosler stuff is pretty expensive.

[Purebred Redneck]

30rem
www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/4,119.html

32rem
www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/4,147.html

No 25-30 though

[twomoons]

Problem is Red when you need it it's fresh out of stock. I prefer to have at least 100 rounds on hand for any gun I have and 500 is MO BETTER.

[Jack]

Red, I believe you can make 25 Remington by necking down the 30 Rem.