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BRASS and only Brass sales on earth made
a Gargantuan $10.74 billion driven by a multi-billion dollar secondary asset loop of recyclable, resalable, and malleable brass.
7mmBC and 6.5+peak casses and only will make $.0.00 just by design
on that secondary market, effectively acting as an economic trap that would wipe out the entire handloading ecosystem if the industry fully transitioned to steel.
You Can Try to Resize It, But You Cannot Shrink It!
Don't let the marketing videos of simple lubed neck-sizing fool you. Traditional brass has elastic memory; it flows under pressure and shrinks back to factory baselines inside a die.
NOW because you cannot physically shrink the case body back to standard dimensions on a home bench, your steel case inventory is permanently trapped inside the geometric footprint of that one specific piece of barrel steel.
AND
custom ANNEALING with a torch will require a hazmat suit since the alloys produce TOXIC GASSES.
The exact millisecond your barrel throat burns out from taking continuous 80k+ PSI proof-load beats, a fresh custom chamber reamer is spun onto your new barrel. Because your cases are permanently fire-formed to your old barrel's unique blueprint of alloy cases are worth less the zero....all that cash vaporized.
BRASS or Alloy?
a Gargantuan $10.74 billion driven by a multi-billion dollar secondary asset loop of recyclable, resalable, and malleable brass.
7mmBC and 6.5+peak casses and only will make $.0.00 just by design
on that secondary market, effectively acting as an economic trap that would wipe out the entire handloading ecosystem if the industry fully transitioned to steel.
You Can Try to Resize It, But You Cannot Shrink It!
Don't let the marketing videos of simple lubed neck-sizing fool you. Traditional brass has elastic memory; it flows under pressure and shrinks back to factory baselines inside a die.
NOW because you cannot physically shrink the case body back to standard dimensions on a home bench, your steel case inventory is permanently trapped inside the geometric footprint of that one specific piece of barrel steel.
AND
custom ANNEALING with a torch will require a hazmat suit since the alloys produce TOXIC GASSES.
The exact millisecond your barrel throat burns out from taking continuous 80k+ PSI proof-load beats, a fresh custom chamber reamer is spun onto your new barrel. Because your cases are permanently fire-formed to your old barrel's unique blueprint of alloy cases are worth less the zero....all that cash vaporized.
BRASS or Alloy?
