What was the first brass you converted

[wallenba]

First was 30 Herrett. Then 7-30 Waters from 30-30, 6.5x55 Swedish from 270, 284 Win. to 7.5 Swiss, 30-06 to 7.7 Jap and 8mm Mauser. Also turned some 22 Remington mag into 223 Remington during shortage. And 308 to 300 Savage.
I picked up a lot of used rifles in the last decade just when reloading components were getting scarce. Started buying Redding form and trim dies when I could.

My biggest use of conversion is making 6x47MM Lapua from 6.5x47 Lapua for my 'J' word target rifle.

[dh2]

years ago I started with 25-06 from 30-06 got a good deal on bulk 30-06 brass
then on to .338-06, .300 Blackout, 9.3x62mm Mauser, 25-06AI and .280 AI what will be next.

[rexherring]

6.5 Swiss to 7.5 French, ad .223 to 7 TCU

[Smoke4320]

357 Herrett, followed by 30 herrett, then 7TCU, 300 Blackout, now 358 Winchester ,, hopefully soon 6.5 x 68 Schuler

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

257R x 6.5 made from 257 Roberts

[HGS]

Making .222 remington from .223 military brass back in the mid 60's to 70's was first with my Father, then moved on to the Thompson Contender TCU and Herret wildcats which I am still doing today 40 years later.

HGS

[GhostHawk]

.223 Blank cartridges to 7.62x25 for the CZ-52. Having some issues with it, not sure if it is the brass that is too thick or the bullet is bigger than it should be.

Still, some of them go pop, FCD made it so they at least chamber and don't hang up.

I'd call it a work in progress.

[tking308]

30-30 to 7-30 Waters

[oger]

30 Mauser from 223 only problem is the Broomhandle stripper clips won't work using 223 cases.

[tangolima]

30 Mauser from 223 only problem is the Broomhandle stripper clips won't work using 223 cases.

The broomhandle is bit difficult to load without the clip. I managed to learn it after a lot of practice.

10mm brass may work.

-TL

[Janoosh]

8mm from 30-06, and then 6.5x50 jap from 35 rem. Won't do that again, both cases now expensive for this cheepsk...frugal individual.

[scb]

30 carbine to 5.7mm Johnson. Almost 40 years ago.

[Expat74]

9X19 para. to 9x18 mak.

Me too

[Bad Water Bill]

Thank you Robert for exposing ANOTHER wealth of knowledge stored between the ears of many of our members.

Now how many folks are going to start asking questions about how someone succeeded where you failed?

[dk17hmr]

For some real time consuming projects try making 221 fireball or 20 Var Targ out of mil 556 brass.

Yes you will learn about annealing, lubing, neck trimming and cutting off a nice long piece of brass tubing.

1,500 down and beating my head against the wall rather than making any more.

Would have been nice to stop at 20 caliber.....I took it down to 17 caliber.



I have formed all sort of stuff started with 270 win into 243 Super Rock Chucker....Neck down, push shoulder back to have a crush fit, trim, turn, fire form.

[Bad Water Bill]

My OLD eyes told me to stop at 20.

It is hard enough to see or pick up and align 20s let alone see the holes at 100 yards.

A man has got to know his limits don't you know.

[dk17hmr]

This may not count, but .30-06 to .270 Win! My first "real" conversion was .30-30 brass to 7-30 Waters.

I've been contemplating my own wildcat by taking .30-30 to 6.8mm SPC(R) where the "R" stands for rimmed. The idea is to create an ideal deer cartridge on a single shot action (hence the rim). The only problem is the large primer pocket on the .30-30 limits pressure/head expansion. Most 6.8 brass has small primer pockets, which is more desirable.

FWIW

I did that as well. I had a 6.8 SPC contender with the a counter bore for the rim on a 30-30. One pass in the 6.8 die and a lot of trimming but it worked great....Mike Bellm does this conversion also.....I believe he will run a 6.8 reamer deeper to use a full length 30-30 case a lot like the 7-30 waters.

http://www.bellmtcs.com/store/images.../6.8%20rim.JPG

[Mod42]

The very first conversion for me was the 7MM BR from about anything with the .473 rim DIA (that was before you could get any of the .308 bench rest brass). Since then I have formed for a lot of other calibers. Now I just form both the Herrett's, .221 Fireball from .223, and .222 from .223. The only one I never had any luck with was forming .22-250 from 308's. Should have been a simple conversion, just never could get it right!

[dnepr]

My first was 250 savage from 22-250

[roverboy]

The first was by simply lubing and running .270 Win. brass to make .30-06. Later I made 8mm Mauser from .30-06.