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Posted: 5/16/2024 9:01:30 PM EDT
I’m looking at fire forming 30-30 brass with Cream of Wheat and TP. I have Unique and Power Pistol powders I can use.
What is the procedure? |
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Posted: 5/16/2024 11:00:45 PM EDT
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Never tried that, I always used jacketed bullets and starting load to fire form my annealed and sized 30-30 brass when fire forming into 7-30 Waters.
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:12:46 AM EDT
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Information I read years ago said to use 8.0 grains of Unique in .30-06 class and smaller cases, with TP or tissue paper stuffed over the powder.
The rifle was then held vertically and fired and the resultant case would then be full-length sized. I tried it a couple times and found that while it did work, using an actual bullet- seated to just touch the lands- and the lowest charge of powder resulted in a better formed case. ETA: This is for .280 AI in a Win M70 and 7-30 Waters in a Super 14 Contender. |
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MN, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 12:22:00 AM EDT
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I tried it a couple times and found that while it did work, using an actual bullet- seated to just touch the lands- and the lowest charge of powder resulted in a better formed case. This it the way ^^^ I knew guys who did the COW thing and often it took more than one shot to get the case formed. Cheap cast bullet seated into the lands, it is a one time expense. |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2024 8:31:37 AM EDT
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Thanks for your reply.
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Posted: 5/17/2024 9:33:12 AM EDT
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I would put about 5-7 gns of a fast pistol powder in there and top it off with cream of wheat. Tap the cases a bit to settle the COW and them push a little bit of paper towel on top and head to the range. This should get your brass most of the way formed. You can always play with the powder charge to get the shoulders you are looking for.
Before I bought a hydraulic form die, this is how I did all my 223 ackley bolt gun brass. |
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Posted: 5/20/2024 7:47:08 PM EDT
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Ive reloaded 7-30 waters, I had to use COW method because of the necks collapsing during bullet seating.
8grs of unique, top off with COW, then i push in a crayon and snap it off. Keep your kids broken crayons, it also makes a colorful mess.  They all fire formed no sweat. Seating bullets now with no problems. |
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Posted: 5/21/2024 9:34:37 AM EDT
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Tag, need to reload some 7-30 waters
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