What was the first brass you converted

[3006guns]

40 S&W to 8mm Nambu...........worked!

[Drifty4]

256 Win Magnum from .357 Mag

[Bumslie]

9mm luger to 9mm makarov

RIP Blitzburgh

[TXCOONDOG]

223 to 22 TCM and 223 to 277 Wolverine

[15meter]

First was 30-30 into short 38-55, couldn't tell the difference in accuracy between my homemade and Starline. I used a forgotten load of powder, toilet paper wad followed by grain dryer screenings with another toilet paper wad. Found out that holding the rifle vertically got you very nicely formed cases. Holding the rifle horizontal got you a case that was not fully blown out on one side. But I did make the backyard look like a confetti factory explosion.

Latest is 30-06 into .318 Westley Richards.

A bunch of different ones in between.

Added 375 H&H into 300 H&H last week. Tried without annealing first, then anneal then reform. Anneal and then reform is definitely the way to go.

Great bell ringer cartridge with cast.

Didn't annoy the wife, no confetti in the yard.

[CASTER OF LEAD]

.223 -> .222 REM. I know........yawn,but It is my first reform attempt . However it will not be my last. Got a list!!!! Lol - CASTER

[rintinglen]

30 carbine to 7.65 long. Difficult and time consuming.

[Rcmaveric]

7.62 x 39 to 6.5m Grendel

[oldsalt444]

308 to 243, 30-06 to 270, 9mm Luger to 9 x 18 Makarov, 308 to 45 ACP Shotshell

[3Gunnah]

.223 to 300 blk I know it's an easy conversion but we've all got to start somewhere right. And so far that's as far as I've gone.

[747 captain]

308 to 300 sav

[747 captain]

30-06 to 8mm mauser

[Mr_Sheesh]

.308 MilSurp brass to .243 - back in about 1968 or 69. 3k rounds or so; I find reloading sorta meditative, and fun. Which is good since it can mysteriously run the clock forward by a dozen of hours between times you look at the clock!

[leebuilder]

Just tried 3030 to 375win. Had a few issues but learned alot. Started out with 30 finished up with 12 good ones, the next batch will be much easier. It was pretty easy and straight forward with the advice and knowledge shared here.
Thanks to all
Be well

[whtsmoke]

30/
30 brass formed to the 219 Ackley Improved Zipper

[10gaOkie]

7TCU was my first from 223. The toughest was 45/75 from 348. Currently making .351SL now, not a piece of cake.
Chris

[Mgvande]

First was 50-90sharps to 43 Beaumont.

[DangerousDave]

I have a few hundred new 401 cases if you would like to trade buy...

[Ed in North Texas]

Back in the 60s cheap USGI .30-06 to hard to find 8x57mm Mauser and even harder to find 7.65x53mm Mauser. I seem to think I was paying a penny or two per case back then.

More recently .270 (don't own one) to 7x57 slightly long cases for an M-1910 Mexican Roller. And .357 Sig to 8mm Nambu. And the easy one, all my .308 commercial cases to .300 Savage. In all these I make sure that I don't convert the same donor cartridge to more than one other cartridge to avoid problems with headstamps (e.g. if it is .270 Win, it is a 7x57mm for the RB, if it is .308 Win, it is .300 Savage and if it is 7.62 NATO that and .308 Win is what it is). Hope to avoid problems for the kids/grandkids/great grandkids when I'm gone either physically or mentally.

[Sawdust]

30-06 to 25-06. This was back in the late 70's