Originally Posted by
James Wisner
LOL, this thread bring back memory's.
Back in the mid 1970's Dad came across a 5 gallon bucket of fired 5.56 blanks.
I was the person who got to crank the press handle and use the hacksaw and case trimmer
We had several guys wanting 30 Mauser ammo, so Dad bought a RCBS file trim die, and extended shell holder.
He set the press up so I could use a hacksaw to trim the case maybe 1/32" too long.
I then swaged the primer pockets on all of them.
Ran them all thru the FL size die
Dad made up a reamer to inside neck ream and overall trim at the same time on the Forester case trimmer
I also had to cast all the boolits, and lube/size them.
Then set up and loaded all those cases.
Spent a lot of time that winter working on them and I was paid about 10 cents a round but it made several gun owners happy.
J Wisner