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308 LC 12 brass - primed: OK it is UGLY - BUYER beware
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<blockquote data-quote="westcliffe01" data-source="post: 794071" data-attributes="member: 35183"><p>SidecarFlip, I would like to take you up on the offer of assistance regarding the annealing if possible. I just got done drying the first half of the non LR batch (the ~40% group) after a more lengthy tumble once I got the tar out of it. That was a rather tedious task I have to say... Anyway, of the non LR batch I have not found any more visible splits since getting them good and shiny. The ones I found were at the decapping stage and later when cleaning the necks.</p><p></p><p>The second half of the non LR batch is in the tumbler now, and I have been staying up so that I can rinse and dry it tonight before bed...</p><p></p><p>This week I have to tackle the bigger LR batch which had by far the larger % of the split necks. Do the tar removal first then tumble them again. I figure it can do no harm to do the anneal, better safe than sorry. Then my plan was to run them through the body die and after that the neck sizing die. Some of the shoulders are deformed a bit, I imagine from putting a compression load on the bullet before they pulled it. I have heard this recommended but never seen anything good come of it. It can screw up the shoulder pretty bad.</p><p></p><p>I found a big batch of 175gr HPBT bullets on Grafs quite inexpensive, so I bought a bunch of them for this brass and some once fired range brass I reworked a while ago. I figure I will leave the Bergers for the Lapua Palma brass. Any idea if I need small rifle magnum primers for shooting 185 Bergers from 308 Palma brass ? Right now I have CCI400 primers. I have 4895 powder but not enough... Will have to make another trip to the LGS and see what they have sitting on the shelf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westcliffe01, post: 794071, member: 35183"] SidecarFlip, I would like to take you up on the offer of assistance regarding the annealing if possible. I just got done drying the first half of the non LR batch (the ~40% group) after a more lengthy tumble once I got the tar out of it. That was a rather tedious task I have to say... Anyway, of the non LR batch I have not found any more visible splits since getting them good and shiny. The ones I found were at the decapping stage and later when cleaning the necks. The second half of the non LR batch is in the tumbler now, and I have been staying up so that I can rinse and dry it tonight before bed... This week I have to tackle the bigger LR batch which had by far the larger % of the split necks. Do the tar removal first then tumble them again. I figure it can do no harm to do the anneal, better safe than sorry. Then my plan was to run them through the body die and after that the neck sizing die. Some of the shoulders are deformed a bit, I imagine from putting a compression load on the bullet before they pulled it. I have heard this recommended but never seen anything good come of it. It can screw up the shoulder pretty bad. I found a big batch of 175gr HPBT bullets on Grafs quite inexpensive, so I bought a bunch of them for this brass and some once fired range brass I reworked a while ago. I figure I will leave the Bergers for the Lapua Palma brass. Any idea if I need small rifle magnum primers for shooting 185 Bergers from 308 Palma brass ? Right now I have CCI400 primers. I have 4895 powder but not enough... Will have to make another trip to the LGS and see what they have sitting on the shelf. [/QUOTE]
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