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Reloading
.300 CT based wildcat
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<blockquote data-quote="TH" data-source="post: 1058589" data-attributes="member: 1046"><p>Topshot</p><p></p><p>I am traveling it's going to be a few days before I can check the water weight. </p><p></p><p>John Whidden made the resizing dies. Forming the brass was a nightmare. It's definitely the hardest case I have ever formed. After making the first 50 cases I told my self I completed the masters reloading program. There were so many blood blisters on my hands from turning brass I didn't want to form another round until I saw the performance of this cartridge.</p><p></p><p>I also have a 5 die process to shorten and neck down my brass. Stage 1 2 and 3 were not bad 4 and 5 was impossible with my rock chucker press. I went out and bought the RCBS 50 caliber press to complete stages 4 and 5. Honestly I went through at least 75 pieces of brass to form my first 50 this was with the Cheytac Jamison brass. </p><p></p><p>Once the brass was shortened the first time I used a small pipe cutters tool to trim the excess brass off each case then I put the case in a Wilson trimmer and trimmed them to length. The second time I made the cases I trimmed them to length by using my gunsmiths mill. Once the cases were trimmed to length I tried to expand the case in order to neck turn. This step was a mess because the brass kept snapping back into place. I figured out that I could only expand one case at a time and I would inside neck ream each case then outside neck turn. The necks were so thick that I had to outside neck turn three times and a 4 time once they were fire formed. </p><p></p><p>BTW I did not have any luck at all with Bertram brass. When I got to the 5th stage of the case shortening process every piece of brass crushed inside the case. I ended up throwing away all 60 cases.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TH, post: 1058589, member: 1046"] Topshot I am traveling it's going to be a few days before I can check the water weight. John Whidden made the resizing dies. Forming the brass was a nightmare. It's definitely the hardest case I have ever formed. After making the first 50 cases I told my self I completed the masters reloading program. There were so many blood blisters on my hands from turning brass I didn't want to form another round until I saw the performance of this cartridge. I also have a 5 die process to shorten and neck down my brass. Stage 1 2 and 3 were not bad 4 and 5 was impossible with my rock chucker press. I went out and bought the RCBS 50 caliber press to complete stages 4 and 5. Honestly I went through at least 75 pieces of brass to form my first 50 this was with the Cheytac Jamison brass. Once the brass was shortened the first time I used a small pipe cutters tool to trim the excess brass off each case then I put the case in a Wilson trimmer and trimmed them to length. The second time I made the cases I trimmed them to length by using my gunsmiths mill. Once the cases were trimmed to length I tried to expand the case in order to neck turn. This step was a mess because the brass kept snapping back into place. I figured out that I could only expand one case at a time and I would inside neck ream each case then outside neck turn. The necks were so thick that I had to outside neck turn three times and a 4 time once they were fire formed. BTW I did not have any luck at all with Bertram brass. When I got to the 5th stage of the case shortening process every piece of brass crushed inside the case. I ended up throwing away all 60 cases. [/QUOTE]
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