480 brass

[Irascible]

I finally found a 480 Ruger, now the problem is finding ammo or even find brass to reload. I noticed that Starline has 475 Linbough brass, is it possible to just shorten the Linbough brass to 480 length?

[Duke3026]

I finally found a 480 Ruger, now the problem is finding ammo or even find brass to reload. I noticed that Starline has 475 Linbough brass, is it possible to just shorten the Linbough brass to 480 length?

Yes! Shorten it to 480length

[Iwsbull]

Hope you get some brass so you can get out and enjoy that revolver, it’s a lot of fun but it also eats a lot of lead.

[Three44s]

Hope you get some brass so you can get out and enjoy that revolver, it’s a lot of fun but it also eats a lot of lead.

Lead can be reclaimed over and over again. Some have constructed boolit traps. You can just dig it out of a suitable back stop as well.

Three44s

[Gray Fox]

Yes, dig out a backstop, fill it with river or sandbox sand, then use a simple home-made sifter to recover the lead. We're Green we always recycle! GF

[Skipper]

I finally found a 480 Ruger, now the problem is finding ammo or even find brass to reload. I noticed that Starline has 475 Linbough brass, is it possible to just shorten the Linbough brass to 480 length?

You can use shortened 45-70 brass also.

[lar45]

For 45-70 brass, you would need to turn the rim down also.

[sixshot]

It's been about 8 years ago now but when we were spending our winters in Arizona I noticed nobody was reclaiming the bullets from the berms & we were shooting 3 matches a week. So I built a box with a screen in it & took it with us one year & would go up early on Sunday mornings before it got to hot & I would probably get close to 4-5 lbs every shovel full, it was crazy how many bullets were in those 4 berms. I estimated I had 2,200 lbs of lead when we came home that year. I didn't even come close to getting all of it.
Dick

[35 Rem]

It's been about 8 years ago now but when we were spending our winters in Arizona I noticed nobody was reclaiming the bullets from the berms & we were shooting 3 matches a week. So I built a box with a screen in it & took it with us one year & would go up early on Sunday mornings before it got to hot & I would probably get close to 4-5 lbs every shovel full, it was crazy how many bullets were in those 4 berms. I estimated I had 2,200 lbs of lead when we came home that year. I didn't even come close to getting all of it.
Dick

Makes me drool just thinking about that much lead just laying there waiting to be claimed.