300wsm brass to 300saum

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HI everyone, I am trying to convert some 300wsm brass into 300 Remington saum , due to the fact that remington hasn't made any in forever and I I'm trying to avoid paying $2 a piece for norma or nosler. So today I tried to resize some 300wsm brass through my 300 saum FL die, using one shot lube, and the few I've tried so far are like crimping the shoulders of the 300wsm brass, will try to post a pic, so my question is, has anyone here tried to do what I am here, and if so is it possible /what might be going wrong here for me. Thanks in advance and any response is greatly appreciated.
 
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I know this isn't what you want to hear but.....

Suck it up and get the Norma. It's expensive yes, but it works perfectly.

If you intend to make this work, others may have more constructive advice.
 
Please reduce the size of your pictures. 1600 x 900 is too big.
300WSM brass through my 300 SAUM FL die won't do it. The WSM has a longer case, different shoulder angles, a longer neck and a way different case taper. You'd need to trim and fire form.
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"...and get the Norma..." Out of stock a most places. The .300 WSM is more expensive than the Norma .300 SAUM at Midway. When they have any.
 
what might be going wrong here for me.
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Reloaders claim "all you gotta do is" when forming cases. I have at least 16 firming die, there are times it is necessary to use three different forming dies when forming one case.

There are times a reloader gets lucky when forming cases, my favorite case for forming is a new case, the second most favorite case is a 'once fired case'. The case that will discourage a reloaders from forming is the case that has been fired over and over and over etc; after that there is annealing.

An illusion is created when a reloader sizes a case, they believe they are moving the shoulder back so that leaves two schools, that would be the school reloaders started and the one I invented. When I form a case by shortning the case from the shoulder to the case head the shoulder of my case does not move, when finished the shoulder I form is a new shoulder that did not exist before I started. Meaning? I find it most difficult to move a shoulder on a case with a die that has case body support.

I know none of this makes sense to a reloader but it is the reason I have 16+ forming dies.

F. Guffey
 
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