Anyone loading 5.7x28? Having an issue....

Suther said:
Nice to hear OP found a solution. Makes the cartridge more appealing. You shouldn't have to bump the shoulder as much to put them back into the same rifle they're coming out of, so you might only need to go through that extra step the first time.


Not allowed to take other people's brass out the bucket at my range. It gets sorted and sold to fund our youth programs.
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There is no youth bucket at our gun ranges.

They call it the garbage can!.....:) LOL
 
Suther said:
You guys don't even recycle spent brass?
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This isn't the city, and no they do not.

The two gun ranges we belong to are little town hick ranges. The gun ranges are nice, and one could pull a ton of spent brass, but no one does unfortunately. Brass is usually left lying on the ground, some guys put them in their original case and toss them into the garbage.

You are lucky they put their own garbage in the can, along with the beer cans. Yes beer cans!.....:(

No supervision, in the middle of no-where and this is what happens.
 
Suther said:
Nice to hear OP found a solution. Makes the cartridge more appealing. You shouldn't have to bump the shoulder as much to put them back into the same rifle they're coming out of, so you might only need to go through that extra step the first time.


Not allowed to take other people's brass out the bucket at my range. It gets sorted and sold to fund our youth programs.
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Yeah, in a bolt action there should be far less case stretch that what is seen in most of the firearms the 5.7x28 is chambered in, that case stretching seems excessive even compared to most semi-auto platforms/cartridges I've reloaded previously, it pretty wild how different the once fired cases look compared to the resized ones. Brass should last a fair bit longer in the bolt action as well.
 
I’ve been thinking of getting into reloading 5.7 for my stowaway but I can’t justify the cost based on the reload data I’ve found online… if you don’t mind what projectile and powder are you using? How much does it come down to per cartridge, for me on what I’ve calculated it’s more or about the same in price than buying in bulk from gotenda…
 
ExpensiveKoi said:
I’ve been thinking of getting into reloading 5.7 for my stowaway but I can’t justify the cost based on the reload data I’ve found online… if you don’t mind what projectile and powder are you using? How much does it come down to per cartridge, for me on what I’ve calculated it’s more or about the same in price than buying in bulk from gotenda…
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With current pricing it costs $27.56 a box to reload using CCI#400 primers, Accurate #7 powder and Hornady 40gr V-Max bullets.
Thi is half the price of American Eagle
Since I have primers and powder from before the panic my cost to reload is $20.93.
Well below half the price of a box of American Eagle.
 
Iron Sighted said:
I had heard of this issue before I ever attempted to start reloading for this cartridge, but I haven't heard of an easy fix for it yet, hoping someone here may be able to help me out.

I bought a few hundred once fired cases and I'm having trouble resizing them. It seems that the cases have stretched enough from firing in whatever semi-auto platform they were shot out of that in order for me to bump the shoulder back enough to get the case to drop in to my Sheridan slotted case gauge I end up basically folding the rim on the case and ruining it(and also making it a P.I.T.A. to get out of the shellholder).

I have used pretty liberal amounts of case lube(homemade lanolin and isopropyl) and tried to gently re-size by partially running the case in to the die until the resistance gets pretty firm, then backing it out, rotating the case a little, relubing it, and running it back in a bit further and repeating this process a few times. Even so, the last little bit of the ram stroke is always super stiff and I end up crushing the rim on the case when driving it far enough it to the die to bump the shoulder back to spec.

I'm thinking about perhaps trying to anneal the neck and a bit lower down on to the shoulder to see if softening the brass a bit may help, but not entirely sure how wise it is to anneal below the case neck?

For what it's worth, I'm using a Lee 2 die set and shell holder. The firearm I plan to use them in is a single shot bolt action(Dark Mountain Arms Stowaway once Marstar gets them imported) so I don't foresee this case stretching being an issue again once I manage to get them sized. I figure worst case I can just buy 100-200 factory rounds and shoot them out of the gun once I get it and I should be fine, but I'd prefer to find a way to make these cases I already have work.
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I want to thank you. I could not figer out why I could not get my 5.7x28mm to work in my bolt action. When you said all you uses was Lee's 2 die set i went back and did not use the factory crimping die. It work. I can not find anybody that has a 5.7x28mm ammo case checker so I use my Darkarms bolt action as the ammo checker. Thank you
 
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