Easiest Milsurp of these 4 to reload for?

The Lee site says they have neck collet dies for 6.5X55.
Depending where you are in Southern Ontario, pick up your powder and primers from Lawrys in Caledonia. The best prices and save on Hazmat shipping fees.
Remington has bulk 6.5 bullets now. I've got some but haven't tried them yet. A bit cheaper.
I'd start with 100 or 200 pieces of brass - should be enough.
50 loaded.
50 in the tumbler.
50 in various stages of brass prep
 
There's not much to choose among those calibres. Someone rightly pointed out the difficulty making the Garand function with really light loads. The .303 doesn't have a problem with brass if you fire it once then neck size after that. This is a problem of excessive headspace and a stretchy smle action.I've had 20 reloads neck sizing. I've had some good results with cast bullets in all the calibres you named except 7.5 Swiss, which I've shot quite a lot with military ammo - a very fine rifle that should do extremely well with cast ammunition and light loads.

Best of luck.

grouch
 
Gibbs505 said:
And the swede!
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I concur..........

Factory 6.5 x 55 sucks, no variety at all. tons of options, good brass life and availability, pretty hard to make an inacurate load for this one..


yes, I'm partial to the swede..........
 
Is the 'wisdom' about the short .303 case life due to the SMLE rear lockup and case stretch? If so, would the P14 then have much, much longer case life?
 
Hi

I started reloading .30-06 a couple of years back when I bought and M1. I went looking through "Cartridges of the world" because it has the listings of all the US military loads from .223 and .45 to .50 cal. Low and behold .30-06 M2 ball is 50 grains of IMR 4895. So that is what I loaded with Hornady's 150 grain BTSP #3033. (not a big fan of FMJ accuracy) Fantastic load.:D Won matches with this combination. FYI I use R-P brass and CCI primers.

Sticker
 
Grouse Man said:
Is the 'wisdom' about the short .303 case life due to the SMLE rear lockup and case stretch? If so, would the P14 then have much, much longer case life?
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Problem is more related to oversized chambers in the SMLE, rifle was designed to shoot wartime production ammo with greater tollerences in tooling and mud. The P14's have more uniform chamber sizes, and the Ross had the tightest chambers. If your only feeding one rifle then neck size only, if you have a pile of enfields your shooting you will either have to sort your brass by rifle and reload, or say the hell with it and full lenght size and live with short brass life.

Heat annealing is something else I have to work on
 
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