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hey all...

I've not seen anything about it so thought I'd ask. Is anyone/or can it be done, reloading steel milspec cases? I guess it'd be more the resizing task that could be the issue.
I just happened to see some on sale at a sweet price and then kinda thought to myself "self, you can reload brass tho, so is the steel really cost-effective?"

my self couldn't answer the question, so I look to those who I'm sure will know :)

thanx!!
 
Yep. They are Berdan primed.

I have hundreds of them from pulled down ammo. I bought 4 cases of the ammo when it was super cheap but it didn't shoot very well in any of the .308s I own/owned so I took it all apart for re-purposing. The powder is almost identical to H335. The 145gr bullets are flat-based and ran exceptionally well in a Savage 7.62x39 scout I used to own.

I have to resize the necks for proper tension w/ .308 dia. 147gr FMJBT pulled from 7.62x51 Chinese surplus, and commercial .308 bullets.

These are reloaded MFS cases with 127gr FMJBT pulled down from Chinese 7.62x39 surplus ammo (.310 bullet dia. so no neck resizing required) on top of 42gr of the pulled MFS powder.

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Cost effective @ 0.34 a pop before powder and bullet depends on what you have on hand
 
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MFS or any other steel cases ammo I find great for cheap blasting with semi's so you don't have to worry about saving your brass for reloading. Some of them try to send the brass into orbit!
 
thanx for the input gents :)

Bowyer.. any grief with your dies? I've got carbides, so as long as I keep up with the lube or even graphite dipping them it's theoretically do-able?

or like sawzall says, maybe just grab a batch for mag-dumps and keep scanning the dirt for "safe" brass finds :)

btw, all my 223 loads atm are just for ar paper-shooting, nothing long-range or hunting function (yet)
 
I use a .308Win Lee Classic reloader for resizing the necks so I don't need to worry about dies getting messed up.

You didn't say what the chambering is so I assumed it was .308. At any rate, case capacity is going to be lower with steel cases.
 
Bowyer said:
I use a .308Win Lee Classic reloader for resizing the necks so I don't need to worry about dies getting messed up.

You didn't say what the chambering is so I assumed it was .308. At any rate, case capacity is going to be lower with steel cases.
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looking at doing 223 :)
I use an xl650 but was actually thinking of grabbing a spare head and isolate the sizing process anyway. All of my de-priming is done by hand
I charge light anyway, but if they start to show any signs I could modify accordingly. Any changes I make I usually push out 10-20, test them and go from there

bcnorth said:
I do 7.62 from fired steel. Costs me about .20/ with a lead cast checked bullet
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that sounds like a hell of a savings!!!
I'm at around $.25 right now for 223 using campro and h4895


got a new question coming soon for y'all ;)
 
I went to their website to see what you were referring to because I thought you were talking about empty/pulled cases. Seemed a little pricey.

Now I see that you're talking about reloading that stuff after you shoot it. That's a whole different deal. The info I posted isn't even on topic :D

I just throw the empty MFS cases away after 1 use.
 
Bowyer said:
I went to their website to see what you were referring to because I thought you were talking about empty/pulled cases. Seemed a little pricey.

Now I see that you're talking about reloading that stuff after you shoot it. That's a whole different deal. The info I posted isn't even on topic :D

I just throw the empty MFS cases away after 1 use.
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thanx Bowyer :)
 
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