My first one was trying to convert 30-30 to 22 H P.
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My first one was trying to convert 30-30 to 22 H P.
My first was 7-30 Waters followed by 256 Win Magnum.
My first was doing 300 Blackout, which by now is upwards of 500K and that's a conservative figure. Although I do things just a bit differently than most do.
The conversion bug bit me, pretty hard. Now in between doing conversions and reading, I look for more conversions. But I'll need to put a limit on that, at times I get so sore pulling handles I have to wonder...
30 Herrett. Very good experience early on for me with annealing, forming, cutting, trimming, flash hole deburring, fire forming with COW, and all the bullets tried out in load development really taught me a lot in my younger days.
30-06 —> 25-06
9.4 Dutch out of 41 Magnum brass. I couldn't let such an interesting revolver go unfired, and it led me into casting my own and loading with BP.
I helped my grandpa form 25-06 from 30-06. That must have been back in the late 1980's. His rifle was a Weatherby Vanguard, I think it was a VGL model....plain walnut stock, blued finish.
My personal 'first' was forming 30-30 from .32 Winchester Special. Does that count? :-P
Currently working on 6.5 Remington Magnum from 7mmRM. Now that there's this new forum I will try to start a thread documenting the process once I get it finalized.
303 British to 44 mag cylinder shot shells.
30/30 to .30 Herrett a long time ago. The T/C barrel I had was throated long enough to seat 200 gr bullets without touching the lands.. Did not show good accuracy with 125 gr bullets so I sold it.
I think T/C had the first Whisper/Blackout cartridge the way it was throated, they just named .30 Herrett!:-x
Mine was and is the 7x30 Water's from 30-30.
Learned to form .270 Win. from 30-06 from my reloading mentor (who also coached our Boy Scout/Explorer smallbore team) while I was still in high school.
Bill
308 to 358 for a Lone Eagle Pistol 25 years ago.
30.06 to 8mm Mauser I broke the linkage on an old press after 20 rounds.....
Fire-forming I often do using a fast burning flake powder, had a large supply of 700X that worked well with Cream of Wheat topped off with a wax plug, (which honestly doubles as a close range form of pest control.) I read about it in an old Handloader magazine a long time ago. I also used the half-jacket Speer Plinkers in my Herrett with a fire-forming load given to me by Bob Milek, although I'll probably use the Lee Soupcan in the future.
300 Savage from 308. Lots of trimming but as easy as it can get. I did find that I needed a small base die so they would chamber in a Savage 99 for the first firing. After that regular dies work fine.
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6.5 jap from a 303 ...i did it the hard way and only made two cases ( what a pain ) next was the 30 herret and then the 7-30 , compared to those two 6.5 jap's they were a walk in the park on a nice day ( especially the 7-30 ) there's been more than i care to count since then .....
gee no thread for the last cases we formed ? lolz ( rimless 375 jdj from 30-06 ,not as easy as making rimmed from 444 marlin )
250 savage to 22 varminter ( or 22-250)
22 - 6 mm 6 mm Rem down to 22
I can think of several more threads to start but Others should step up with their own ideas or questions.
.30-30 to .38-55 even though they come out a little short and is a pretty easy conversion.
30-06 to 8 mm Mauser. At first it was a chore. Now that I have it down I actually find it quite enjoyable.
Any 30-06 I find I convert (Since I do not have an 06 rifle) Of course if I gather up a good bunch and need to buy something I might sell them!
.375 Winchester and 38-55 from 30-30.
The first few cases didn't have enough Red Dot in them, and came out wasp-waisted between the mouth and the shoulder. Once I got enough powder in them, I went to town creating a bunch of straight walled cases using a good friends Big Bore Winchester. Used Cream-O-Wheat on top of the powder, and fired them in the basement (wife was at work) to keep from having the neighbors complaining, or having to drive 20 minutes to get away from the subdivisions.
Probably should have noticed that the filler was acting like sandpaper on the sheetrock ceiling........
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First was 357 herrets from 30-30 and 32 win specials. easy to form just alot of trimming there. Then 243 from 308 learned neck turning from that. 25-06 from 30-06, again had to lightly neck turn and anneal. A wildcatt on the 300 wsm case to 6.5mm. Have reformed some cases one offs for paper wieghts or key chains. Once made bushing to step down 50bmg in an arbor press to 22 caliber. I have thought about a 219 zipper or Donaldson wasp(?) for awhile and forming from 7-30 waters.
6.5 Creedmoor from .308 cases - takes a bit of trimming but with the judicious use of Mobil1 motor oil forming was really easy.
7mm RM to 30-338 was the first, many many moons ago.
First one was forming GI 30-06 into 25-06, when it was still a wildcat. Last one was just last week, 32-20 into 25-20.
I know this hardly counts but 32 Special to 30-30. I know it sounds backwards but I was a kid and had a 30-30 and found a few pieces of 32 Special brass.
Tim
The first for me was a 256 Newton from 30/06
That go me hooked . now I try to form everything
444 Marlin to 309 JDJ. Took some learning to get things right but boy was it worth it.
My first was 308Win to 7-08Rem, followed by 270Win to 8x57Mauser. My next will be 223 to 7.62x25Torkarev. All of these are done because of value and availability
30-30 to 38-55, 303 british to 30-40 krag, 35 rem to 6.5 jap.,, 30-06 to 308 win. , 308 win to 243 win., 220 swift to 6.5jap
Other than fooling' around, my first was 33 WCF, then 38-56, both from 45-70.
300 Savage to 22-250...
I got to learn neck turning right out the gate!
First was 308 too 6.5mm-08 (before the 260 came around) found I needed to ream necks with that. Then along came the 7mm-08 made that easier, and 243 was even better. Never bought 260 Rem brass still using my converted. Then 220 to 6.5 Jap.
Then made a wildcat from 350 Rem mag blown out straight too 45 with fast powder and corn meal.
Left it long at 2.17". I tried using some cast 357 bullets to fire form them once was a HUGE mistake.
45 cal barrel went to 35 cal with a lead liner. I'll never have to learn that one over.