No1Mk3 wrote:G'day JimTom,
The brass lasts as long as most commercial offerings if it is annealed during resizing and regularly in use. I would like to know what your loss rate is, bladeracer, as I was losing 3/10 during resizing for my M1904, mostly using Winchester brass. Fortunately had a lot donated to me and was making 8mm out of it when the Vergueiro came along so I still ended up with 100 good cases, Cheers.
I lost my first case which was very disappointing...until I replaced the bullet seating die with the sizing die
I'm running new Winchester .30-06 through the 6.5x50mm FLS die maybe eight times, lubing each time. The .30-06 case head is bigger than the 6.5x50mm though so most of the effort is in sizing the case head down a few thou...and people say the Lee press isn't strong enough to FLS rifle brass
I'm not expecting to lose many as it's sizing very nicely. I did that one last night as I had just finished doing a batch of .303 into 6.5x54R, also no losses.
What die do you use to size the brass for yours?
The guy that assisted me in finding and getting the rifles was making brass for another one a couple weeks back. He gave up on the .30-06 as it wasn't going well. He switched to .270 brass with better results, but he was using RCBS 6.5x58mm dies. I might order another set of 6.5x50mm dies and modify them to 6.5x58mm.
I want to also try some 8x57mm brass to see whether it's any better than the .30-06, but all my 8x57mm is currently loaded so I'll have to do some shooting...bugger!