Jim's quest for Brass in the swapping section got me to thinking about the missing variable in a lot of our load testing. Something I've been experimenting with a little more of lately.
We test different primers, powder, wads, bullets, alloys etc, but seldom do we test a variety of brass.
With the brass shortage, it's even harder to do.
It kinda started with my two 40-50 SBN rifles. The first one liked thick cases and some of the junk Bertram 45 2.6 brass Ron Vandenbrink gave me worked perfect in it. But few others did. When I acquired another 40-50, the Bertram brass just didn't work well, but the thin walled W-W brass did.
When I started out testing my Bull Barrel 45 2 7/8 , the only bullet I had that would fit was a DD bullet that Kenny and Arnie had developed. But for some reason it just didn't gel with me. Of course the only Brass one ever needs to try for a 110 is Norma brass. There just is no other worthy enough. So the gun sat for a year.
Recently on a whim, I dug out some Shiloh 45-110 brass I had acquired years ago. Suddenly everything fit as it should and I had a worthy load of that gun and caliber.
I realize, with the brass shortage this is even harder to do now, but when all else fails, maybe having a few custom brass of a different thickness might be in order.
All this was in a roundabout way to say the brass I'm sending Jim may work or may be better used as floor sweepings.