CLOSED - USED OR NEW 7X57 brass

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Ian

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Me too, Ben. I sort of "invested" in certain calibers that were overwhelmingly popular 40 years ago, thinking brass would never be rare. Unfortunately the .30-30, '06, .38 Special, .357 Magnum, and .45 ACP are going the way of the Dodo. To hedge against this happening again, I laid in a heavy stock of .308 and .223 brass and ammunition and started buying rifles in those calibers. Glad I snapped up every good deal on 1F brass for the older stuff that I could about ten-fifteen years ago when few others wanted it.
 

Mitty38

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I have this irresistible urge to pick up and scrounge .223 bras. To the point. Now, I have other people scrounging for it, automatically for me.

This has been so much so that I have had to give away half my stash twice just to make room for other stuff. But yetI keep collecting. It's a sickness.;)
 

fiver

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not if they are size 22.
that's for like a 300lb'er.

Like Ian i got a grundle of 308 and 30-06 brass.
i even broke down and paid for some 45 ACP brass.
i figured having a K or so of not gonna use it for the 0-6, 0-6 cases, kicking around might come in handy for the X58, X53, and X57 stuff.

the weird thing around here is the 40 shooting seems to have become a thing of the past.
i used to pick it up and make little piles of it on the benches at the pistol range, then i found it made pretty good 44 cal. bullets and ain't seen any since.

anyway.
7 Mauser [and the others] Brass was 'seasonally' made,,, IOW about every 3 years they'd tool up for it, knock a bunch out, load half of it and ship it all out.
the last few [12 or so] years there just hasn't been a 'season' for it, because all the machine time has been spoken for.
 

Mitty38

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Drifted a bit, didn't I?
Not asking or sugesting for Ben, but just for my own curiosity.
Couldn't you neck down, cut off, and trim 06 to 7x57. Then maybe fire form it?
It's got to be close.
But probably not worth the bother????
 
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RBHarter

West Central AR
06' family is a great fit for the x57's . You just have to size and push the shoulder back in 3 steps or so then ream and trim . Then you have the head stamp issue which isn't a big deal if you have a bunch of GI but if you gave $40 for 450+ 270s you were going to use for 280 AI ...... First world problems.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Try finding 218 Bee, 25-20, 250-3000, 32-20 or 25/35 brass. My kids never understood why I was so fanatical about bringing home every single piece of CF brass they shot. Now, with even stuff like 22-250 or '06 empty brass costing upwards of a buck a piece in some places they get it.
 

L Ross

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You can understand why when I was at the last gun show, I jumped on a bag of 100 .30-30's for $12.00. The seller offered to let me just pick out the head stamps I wanted, for 12¢ a piece. I just took the bag. Oh, and he had polished the brass, and 6 of the W-W sticks turned out to be primed. I'll make .357 Herretts out of the R-P brass to go with the first ones I formed. I annealed the R-P brass on Monday.

What I regret is when my Dad was the volunteer range custodian at his local range and picked up everything that was brass. Sure we saved some, but for awhile brass brought $2.50/lb. One truck load I hauled for him had 1,450 lbs. of cartridge brass. It take about 2,100 .223 to fill a 5 gallon plastic bucket. I do not know how many .22 lr but he had a few buckets of those too!

He was an old man, with time on his hands and dementia in his future. He'd pick up the 9m/m brass the Sheriff's Deputies were shooting, dig the empty boxes out of the burn barrels and re-box it for me. I just needed a couple of empty 5 gallon buckets for saw dust the other day and dug two out of the shed. There in his shaky script with a Magic Marker were two, one marked .30-06, and one marked .270. There used to be that much discarded brass back then. By the time Obama was elected, Dad was really slowing down and then there was no brass to pickup anymore other than the .22 lr and the steel case crap.
 

Walks

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Ric, if you jack the bolt just right it does that anyway. Savage 10/110 etc. case ejection sucks even when it works.
I used to have a M112 in .22-250, ejector never worked right, 19 out of 20 times; pull bolt back and pick the case out the action.
 

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
I used to have a M112 in .22-250, ejector never worked right, 19 out of 20 times; pull bolt back and pick the case out the action.
HMM. Mine threw the brass 10 feet to the right and 6 feet behind me. Maybe because it was a LE model, they had different parts.
 

Ian

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Maybe, I'm not sure. I have several models including a 111 "tactical" model and they all behave more or less like Walks' did. Stagger feed blind magazine models are the worst, especially when not using the magazine at the bench or ejecting the last empty.
 

Walks

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Mine was about 45yrs ago, don't think they made LE ones back then. And I don't think LE would want a single shot. No magazine at all, just a "trough".
 
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RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Mine was about 45yrs ago, don't think they made LE ones back then. And I don't think LE would want a single shot. No magazine at all, just a "trough".
As far as I know, the 10-LE models came out with the Accu-triggers. They are bull barrels, matt finish and 20 or 24 inch barrels. Calibers were only .223 or .308 no other options. Stocks were that black plastic (Cokate?) number adjustable up, down and sideways; or brown laminate with three sling swivels. With the refinement of the AR platforms, and lack of sales, they went away within five years or so.

The one I bought, 20 inch 308 with laminate stock, weights almost eleven pounds without a scope or mount, but with four rounds in the blind magazine well. Shooting it in benchrest matches I was limited to a Leupold 24X scope to make weight.
 
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