Bought some brass…

BBerguson

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
I broke down and bought some Lapua small primer 308 brass. I intend to load only cast bullets and small pistol primers in this brass as my best supply of primers is sp. Found it at Brownells for $1 each. Well that and I don’t have much 308 brass so I really did need some more. Also bought a Lee factory crimp die for 308 also. Hope they are as good at getting orders out as FSreloading is.
 
BBerguson

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
Plinking loads. Starting with 130gr cast and 6gr of bullseye. Spp has worked very well so far with 450 bm and 222 using the bullseye.

Kind of anxious to see how they work in my Thompson center that was giving me fits with too hard to fire cci primers.
 
fiver

fiver

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you might get away with not having to size them after the second or third firing.

just be careful of moving the shoulder back with the firing pin if they are a little sloppy to begin with.
if they start getting that way you have to blow them out with a full pressure load then your GTG again.

I Like to FF with a full pressure load and then work from there, because I've had that happen before when I wasn't jamming the bullet.
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Fiver brings up a good point. Almost all of my cast-bullet rifle loads get at least "kissed" into the throat leade, which enables minimal headspace at the time the firing pin contacts the primer. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
 
BBerguson

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
Had a good shooting session yesterday with the new brass/loads. 20 rounds loaded, 20 rounds fired. This was using my TC Compass, the rifle that doesn’t like hard primers. The loads were a 130 powder coated cast, 6gr bullseye and a CCI small pistol primer. It was raining off and on so I wasn’t taking a lot of time, just testing their reliability. That and I had four different rifles I was performing similar tests with.
 
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