Looks to me like 7mm-08 would form easily to 300 Savage. The shoulder starts in the right place, and, necking up, there shouldn't be any neck thickness problems. There's only about .15" trimming to be done. Has anybody tried this?
Looks to me like 7mm-08 would form easily to 300 Savage. The shoulder starts in the right place, and, necking up, there shouldn't be any neck thickness problems. There's only about .15" trimming to be done. Has anybody tried this?
Back in the day I owned a Thompson Center Contender in ...Wait ....300 savage
modified by JD himself he told me that the 300 savage had ignition troubles in the Contender format
so I studied the cases and found the 308 win actually had a rim that was .001 thicker than the
300 sav so I started making cases out of 308 win brass
problem solved
Hit em'hard
hit em'often
Why not ream it out to 308 Win and be done with it?
I use foreign military .308 brass with (boxer primer) that has one of those meaningless headstamps so as not confuse it with .308 Win.
That sounds like fairly old prices.
In years past, when I still had a Class VI, someone asked me how much I'd charge to reload some rifle stuff.
I told them '$1. each, in your brass, in lots of 100, for a tricked out load with premium bullets tuned to your rifle'.
They squealed like a pig stuck under a gate.
At the same time, a 20 round box of the cheapest garbage WalMart could find was $17. plus tax.
At this point in history, $22. a box for a caliber that's getting rather rare, is really pretty good.
If it was me, I'd be so happy I found them for that..... I'd take my clothes off and dance on the kitchen table.
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It's sort of interesting to see all the warnings about reducing charges when using military brass for the cartridge conversions. Back in the 50s and 60s, when GI '06 brass was really cheap (I seem to remember about $0.06 to 08 each in lots of 100, less for 1000, but I could be misremembering*) the caution of "reduce charges 10% if milspec brass is used" was common in all the reloading manuals. As a general rule GI brass is thicker than commercial brass, resulting in higher pressures for the same load.
"Everything old is new again." comes to mind.
* Came across an old primer box with a "Sale" price tag on it, box of 100 LR primers (Remington) @ $0.25. Regular price was $0.50. Oh well, didn't make spit in those days compared to today but we seemed to get by pretty well anyway. New '68 F-100 was $1800 with dealer installed A/C additional. The only reason I haven't paid more for a truck than my house is I no longer buy new when I need a vehicle.
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It's sort of interesting to see all the warnings about reducing charges when using military brass for the cartridge conversions. Back in the 50s and 60s, when GI '06 brass was really cheap (I seem to remember about $0.06 to 08 each in lots of 100, less for 1000, but I could be misremembering*) the caution of "reduce charges 10% if milspec brass is used" was common in all the reloading manuals. As a general rule GI brass is thicker than commercial brass, resulting in higher pressures for the same load.
"Everything old is new again." comes to mind.
* Came across an old primer box with a "Sale" price tag on it, box of 100 LR primers (Remington) @ $0.25. Regular price was $0.50. Oh well, didn't make spit in those days compared to today but we seemed to get by pretty well anyway. New '68 F-100 was $1800 with dealer installed A/C additional. The only reason I haven't paid more for a truck than my house is I no longer buy new when I need a vehicle.
Ed
CW3 USA (Ret)
VFW Life
American Legion
DAV Life
NRA Benefactor
TX State Rifle Assn Life
SAF Life
NY State Rifle and Pistol Assn Senior Member because I don't have to fight that fight in TX
JPFO Member
GOA Member
I have a form and trim die. It’s stupid quick. If I use .308 I don’t bother neck turning but if it’s a 06 length case where the neck forms from the parent body I give it a quick turn.
IMHO the form trim die was worth every penny
Last edited by fatnhappy; 05-13-2021 at 07:40 AM.
Originally Posted by Theodore Roosevelt
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |