6mm Lee Navy,Help

[sav300]

Hi folks, a friend is buying a 6mm Lee Navy and has asked me (his reloading mate) to find or make brass for the 6mm Lee.
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Can form 220 swift brass for the Lee a la manual of cartridge conversions,But thats work. To import brass without a permit and a registered rifle of that caliber is NO go. Am open to ideas and suggestions. Thank you

[Hip's Ax]

Buffalo Arms has reformed brass.

http://www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/4,760.html

[Hip's Ax]

Sav, I've searched another forum that is the one place I've seen Lee Navy topics come up from time to time. Check out the below links.

On loading ammo

http://jouster.com/cgi-bin/reload/reload.pl?read=28707

On safety and checking the head space before firing, including a post by Scott Duff

http://jouster.com/cgi-bin/krag/krag.pl?read=13579

[Bent Ramrod]

Old Western Scrounger makes 6mm Lee from .30-40 Krag. A friend gave me a box for a curiosity; I haven't shot any of it yet.

I bought 50 .220 Swift cases, loaded them with 8 grains of Bullseye topped off with Cream of Wheat and a wax disc to hold the works together and fired them. The necks are short, and the longest 6mm bullets won't go anywhere near the rifling, but they shoot into 2-1/2" to 4" through the rifle's poor bore. The semi-rims don't matter, at least in my rifle; shells feed OK from the magazine with careful manipulation. Too rapid fire sometimes causes a bullet to be knocked out of the neck (I seat them in just barely). I use 32 gr 3031 behind the Speer 105 gr RN or 33 gr 4064 behind the Hornady 100 gr RN. Or the Ideal 244203 with 5 gr Unique.

Certain lots of the Speer RN give a gray streak of vaporized lead from the muzzle to the target and a "comet tail" of lead around each bullet hole.