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Forming 6.5 Jap brass

jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
edited March 2002 in Ask the Experts
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.
"...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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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    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...the loveable rat... Member Posts: 969 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    jeez jonk, are you on your way to become the grand vizier of wierd axis-power firearm knowledge or what?
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Yep, that's what I'm going for. Not just axis though, wierd military post civil war stuff in general.
    "...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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