45-70 to 33 Winchester
Printable View
45-70 to 33 Winchester
8X57 Mauser from 30-06 brass, pretty easy one to start with.
22 cheetah from 308 br
Hi guys.
My first experience was forming 6.5 x 55 from 30 '06. A long time ago. Being inexperienced, I neglected to
check neck thickness after trimming and before loading. ( I thought those were a little tight to seat!!)
Went to the range and fired a single round from my AG42B, with unpleasant results, but the rifle and myself were unharmed.
The cartridge did spit out its primer due to excessive pressure, and gas went everywhere. With enthusiasm.
Lesson learned, and as I said, there was NO damage to that fine Swedish rifle!
Next I will be forming 25-35 Winchester from 30 - 30 brass, since I inherited my Grandfather's 94 SRC that he carried in the Northwest
Mounted Police, and I intend to shoot, just a little. Ammo up here in Kanada costs about 80.00 a box IF you can find it,
and brass cannot be imported for some stupid political reason. LOL
Just my .02!
The_Doctor
If I had a set of dies for that gun would you be interested?
Hi, omgb! Thanks, I have loading dies - or were you suggesting that you have boolit molds?
In any case, I don't intend to shoot the 25 - 35 all that much; I'll buy 50 or 100 cast lead boolits
and that will last me the lifetime of the gun. Or myself, for that matter! Too many other calibers
to play with!
Cheers!
The_Doctor
LC NM 60 into 25-06
8x56 MS from 8X57JS and 7,65 argie from 6,5 swedish.
When I first purchased a S&W 25-5 (long before UK banned honest people from having pistols) it was very difficult to obtain 45 LC ammo or cases in UK but 44 mag was plentiful so I machined up an extra long expander and converted 44's to 45 LC. They worked fine with the light target loads I was mostly using but I didn't try any heavy loads in them.
My first effort was converting 7.62x51 blanks to 6mm Remington. Interesting looking cartridge way back then with the false shoulder and military head stamp. This one required fire forming and I never trusted these with full power loadings. Then came 30-06 and 270 to 6mm. I did 338-06 before it became a standard loading and I convert 35/30-30 from 30-30 and 375 Win brass. I convert 444 Marlin to 260 Bellm #2 and 308 Bellm and 308 Win to 358 Win. I just got an 8mm Mauser so brass for this comes from 270 Win. I have also made 8mm/338 from both 7mm Rem Mag or 338 Win.
As many others 30-06 to 8mm mauser.
Aaron
30-06 to 8mm on a Lee hand press! I was 17. :)
223-300bo
Also did 223-22 tcm and then 300 BO to 22tcm
My first was 25-06 to 8mm, I had plenty of 30-06 and 270 cases, but I had rifles in both so I spaired them. Since then I've converted 308LC to 35 Rem, which is a little work!
In the early 60's, I made 7x57 from range pick-up Military 30-06 which was all over the place. 8mm was all over the ground too but it all berdan primed stuff.
The rifle was a Lowe/Berlin mfg '93 Mauser. All matching including the bayonet in about new condition for IIRC $15.00.
I ripped a few rims off of the '06 cases trying to form them in my Lyman Spartan press before I realized I needed to use real case lube, not 3&1 oil,, and not to be so cheap with it too!
The rifle is long gone,,the press & dies live on with a family member still cranking out ammo.
My latest are 256 Gibbs Magnum for a Mannlicher Schoenaur sporter built on a Greek 1903 by Geo Gibbs of Bristol, Eng.
Also making 401WSL from 7.62x39mm which is actually quite easy using one shop altered 45acp expander and a set of 41magnum loading dies.
First conversion was .303 British to 6.5x53R (Mannlicher). Mainly requires shortening and neck sizing case a bit. Annealing helps, too.
Current - second - conversion is changing .45 Colt brass into .455 Webley Automatic brass. Involves shortening case, turning down rim somewhat and cutting an extractor groove. Says here.
Oh. Started making .30 Scott's Improved from .30-06 cases. Requires fire forming. I was so impressed with myself.
45-70 to 40-65,then 45-90 to 40-82 much more patience needed.
As per The Doctor, my first reforming was 6.5x55 from 30-06 brass.
Same results. Lots of pressure, tho, my conservative loads, I did not blow primers.
Then found out about neck reaming. That was in my teens.
Recent: Form 38-72W from 405H Hornady brass and Form 32-40 Rem Hepburn from 303Brit brass- to Include annealing and
Neck Turning ( learned something from my early days).And 22-3000 R2 Lovell from 25-20 SS brass
beltfed/arnie
223 to 300 BO.
I may attempt 308 to 260 Rem some day. I know 243 works better, but I have 8-10K pieces of 308 brass.