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Need another source for 6.5mm Rem Mag brass
- Thread starter golfballshootr
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I realize this thread is pretty old but I looking for cracks in the wall I ran into trying to find brass. Is it possible to run 350 brass straight into a 6.5 reloading die or do I need a special die. Or is it possible to run it through a series of dies and neck it down in stages. I have never tried to reform a case before but for the 6.5 it doesn't look like I have a choice.
I realize this thread is pretty old but I looking for cracks in the wall I ran into trying to find brass. Is it possible to run 350 brass straight into a 6.5 reloading die or do I need a special die. Or is it possible to run it through a series of dies and neck it down in stages. I have never tried to reform a case before but for the 6.5 it doesn't look like I have a choice.
reynolds357
New member
I just put back 1000 350 Rem mag pcs of brass for that same reason. Its a bit easier to find and you can neck it down if you get into too much trouble. You can also make it from 7Rem MAg, but its a slight bit of a pain.
Mike Irwin
Staff
You should be able to run it straight into a 6.5 die. Remove the decapping stem during your initial forming pass, it makes things a little bit easier.
Make sure that your cases are well lubricated.
You may have to neck turn the cases to ensure that you have proper chamber clearance.
Make sure that your cases are well lubricated.
You may have to neck turn the cases to ensure that you have proper chamber clearance.
Reloading is not fair, case forming is beyond unfair.
When I form brass the shoulder does not move, it is erased, the shoulder that is formed is ‘a new shoulder’ that was not there before I started and the old shoulder becomes something else, or it is cut off with the man tool, the hack saw.
“All you gott-a do is etc., etc..” ? ? Fire forming? Same thing, most fire formers are pulling the trigger and making once fired cases, I know, there is the cool factor, “I went to the range today and fire formed my cases”,
I have forming dies, I justified the cost because 30/06 cases were available for .01 cent each, 1,400 cases for $14.00. Then there were wildcats, cases did not exist, like taking advise when chambering a rifle I could not believe how much guess work was going on.
Criteria: failure rate, I was asked to assist in forming cases for a wildcat chamber, the advise? “All you gotta do is...... “ , now a few would wonder why they ask me to get involved, the first tool they wanted me to bring was the other #4 Shell holder for the 300 H&H, 300 Weatherby, 375 etc., and 300 Winchester Magnum cases. Following their own advise all they managed was a big wad of brass at the case body/shoulder juncture, as a side note I was going to furnish the case lube, but, if Imperial sizing wax was not going to be used it was going to be Dillon in the bottle or can. No cool factor in saying “I do not use Imperial” or “I do not use Dillon etc..”.
Like magic, no failures, in the process at any point we could have formed 350 Remington cases or 6.5 Remington mag cases without with ease and without failures.
F. Guffey
When I form brass the shoulder does not move, it is erased, the shoulder that is formed is ‘a new shoulder’ that was not there before I started and the old shoulder becomes something else, or it is cut off with the man tool, the hack saw.
“All you gott-a do is etc., etc..” ? ? Fire forming? Same thing, most fire formers are pulling the trigger and making once fired cases, I know, there is the cool factor, “I went to the range today and fire formed my cases”,
I have forming dies, I justified the cost because 30/06 cases were available for .01 cent each, 1,400 cases for $14.00. Then there were wildcats, cases did not exist, like taking advise when chambering a rifle I could not believe how much guess work was going on.
Criteria: failure rate, I was asked to assist in forming cases for a wildcat chamber, the advise? “All you gotta do is...... “ , now a few would wonder why they ask me to get involved, the first tool they wanted me to bring was the other #4 Shell holder for the 300 H&H, 300 Weatherby, 375 etc., and 300 Winchester Magnum cases. Following their own advise all they managed was a big wad of brass at the case body/shoulder juncture, as a side note I was going to furnish the case lube, but, if Imperial sizing wax was not going to be used it was going to be Dillon in the bottle or can. No cool factor in saying “I do not use Imperial” or “I do not use Dillon etc..”.
Like magic, no failures, in the process at any point we could have formed 350 Remington cases or 6.5 Remington mag cases without with ease and without failures.
F. Guffey
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