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AR15/10 Rifles
Grendel shooters, brass question
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<blockquote data-quote="Riflehunter1776" data-source="post: 1403069" data-attributes="member: 103369"><p>How many of you guys have had success with fire forming 7.62x39 commercial brass to 6.5 grendel? </p><p></p><p>I have a ton of good new commercial brass (mostly Win, some FC) for an AR-47 and CZ bolt gun; and since I'm cheap...I mean 'thrifty', I thought I'd use some of it for my new Grendel build. So after talking to a few people and watching a few youtube videos for procedure, I loaded a flat of 50 WW cases by running them through a Grendel FL sizer, checking them with a case gauge, and then loaded a starting charge with light bullets. No problems. </p><p></p><p>However, once I had my fire formed cases in hand, I went searching for various loads to try out with the powder I currently have .... and at that point I began to come across more and more online threads with people claiming that the 7.62/6.5 grendel brass only lasts 2 or 3 loadings....claims that the primer pockets loosened immediately, that the brass fails regularly, that pressure is considerably higher, etc etc. Basically many of these comments made it sound like I'm a walking dead man just waiting for the catastrophic failure to happen, because of resizing the 7.62 brass rather than buying the expensive Norma stuff. </p><p></p><p>So, has anyone here done it, and what were your actual results? Respectfully, I'm not looking for what a non-grendel-owner heard from their cousin's former roommate, but I am very interested in info from anyone who has actual first hand knowledge. </p><p></p><p>thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riflehunter1776, post: 1403069, member: 103369"] How many of you guys have had success with fire forming 7.62x39 commercial brass to 6.5 grendel? I have a ton of good new commercial brass (mostly Win, some FC) for an AR-47 and CZ bolt gun; and since I'm cheap...I mean 'thrifty', I thought I'd use some of it for my new Grendel build. So after talking to a few people and watching a few youtube videos for procedure, I loaded a flat of 50 WW cases by running them through a Grendel FL sizer, checking them with a case gauge, and then loaded a starting charge with light bullets. No problems. However, once I had my fire formed cases in hand, I went searching for various loads to try out with the powder I currently have .... and at that point I began to come across more and more online threads with people claiming that the 7.62/6.5 grendel brass only lasts 2 or 3 loadings....claims that the primer pockets loosened immediately, that the brass fails regularly, that pressure is considerably higher, etc etc. Basically many of these comments made it sound like I'm a walking dead man just waiting for the catastrophic failure to happen, because of resizing the 7.62 brass rather than buying the expensive Norma stuff. So, has anyone here done it, and what were your actual results? Respectfully, I'm not looking for what a non-grendel-owner heard from their cousin's former roommate, but I am very interested in info from anyone who has actual first hand knowledge. thanks. [/QUOTE]
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