"...need to turn projectiles from brass..." Read an article in one of the gun rags, long ago, about a guy who turned bullets out of oil impregnated bronze(might have been brass). .50 cals, as I recall. The oil heated to smoking upon firing and gave the guy a smoke trail tracer. Very slick pictures of the spiralling smoke trail going down range. Very long range. 600 + I think it was.
Anyone successfully reloading 14.5x114?
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This project continues to intrigue me.
If you find brass, will you be able to find primers? If no primers, could the brass be modified to accept 209 shotgun primers?
What about machining an insert to allow the use of necked up 50 BMG brass? The brass is about 1/2" short so there'd be a bit of freebore. It might not be feasible if there is not enough difference between the outside body dimensions of the two rounds though. If not, an insert could be made for just the base, and the brass would fireform out to the chamber dimensions. The insert would then become part of the round, to be reused when the brass was discarded.
Resizing is a problem no matter what route you take. Neck sizers are easy to contrive, body sizers less so. If you keep the pressure down, you can get several neck sizes before the body becomes an issue.
If you find brass, will you be able to find primers? If no primers, could the brass be modified to accept 209 shotgun primers?
What about machining an insert to allow the use of necked up 50 BMG brass? The brass is about 1/2" short so there'd be a bit of freebore. It might not be feasible if there is not enough difference between the outside body dimensions of the two rounds though. If not, an insert could be made for just the base, and the brass would fireform out to the chamber dimensions. The insert would then become part of the round, to be reused when the brass was discarded.
Resizing is a problem no matter what route you take. Neck sizers are easy to contrive, body sizers less so. If you keep the pressure down, you can get several neck sizes before the body becomes an issue.
Bloody hell! Claven, I take it that you're preparing for the eventual cloning of dinosaurs from reconstructed DNA? Stuart
As an update, I just located 15 rounds of brass empties.
Plan is to machine them to take 50BMG primers.
i have a plan to try and get these cases reloaded, but will over time have to arrange for a home-made press big enough to take the 2" CH4D dies for this caliber.
The plot thickens...
Plan is to machine them to take 50BMG primers.
i have a plan to try and get these cases reloaded, but will over time have to arrange for a home-made press big enough to take the 2" CH4D dies for this caliber.
The plot thickens...
