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38 special trimming
JimmyJack
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How necessary is it to trim to length the brass for target shooting? I haven't to date and rarely find one too long, but some are a few thousands over.
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If I was to take up serious paper punching I'd be trimming my cases to a uniform length and check on them after every 5 goes or so. I like my Forster case trimmer a lot. I chuck the champhering tool in the Unimat lathe to make that job much easier on me. I also use the Lyman flash hole de-burring uniforming tool on all my brass.
I have NEVER ever trimmed a straight walled pistol case or a straight walled rifle case for that matter.
Did for 44mag, and 357 most.
this can be confirmed with Ransom rest testing. in fact the more
you load a 45ACP case the shorter it will get . BPOST has it correct
a waste of time.