Forming 6.5 Jap brass

jonk

March 15, 2002 08:28

I see a lot of auctions advertising this stuff as being formed from .308 brass. Can this really be done? I hesitate because 6.5 Jap has a rim, albeit a slight one, while the .308 is rimless. I tried feeding a .308 into my Jap bolt face and as I thought, it didn't catch.

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"...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.

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  Iconoclast

  March 15, 2002 15:48

  Jon, Best brass to use is .220 Swift and I 'just happen' to know someone who has about 500 rds of virgin brass in various stages of conversion which will be completed once I get the reamer (which was missing when I bought the tooling). There was an auction listing last year of a bunch of incompletely formed .220s which some (Winchester?) employee had picked up in the midst of a production run to make the brass. Of course, you can always take out a second mortgage & pick up some Norma brass . . . . Which isn't actually that bad a deal - if you haunt the reloading component offerings here and elsewhere, you should be able to find it for around $0.50 or a bit higher per each for new brass.[This message has been edited by Iconoclast (edited 03-15-2002).]

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  the loveable rat...

  March 15, 2002 16:28

  jeez jonk, are you on your way to become the grand vizier of wierd axis-power firearm knowledge or what?

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  jonk

  March 15, 2002 17:34

  Yep, that's what I'm going for. Not just axis though, wierd military post civil war stuff in general.

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  "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.

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