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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 2786102" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>What is your AI in, and does it chamber a factory round reliably? The factory casing should have a slight crush-fit in your chamber (the bolt should close on the factory round with a little bit of effort). If that's what you have, you can fireform your casing just by shooting factory rounds, or your reloads. You can also use pistol powder, cornmeal filler and bee's wax. But when I fireformed for my 8mm-06 AI, I just necked up from 30-06, loaded the rounds, and shot the standard 8mm-06 for practice, which gave me an improved casing afterwards. You can do this without stretching your brass as long as your chamber is done properly. As a matter of fact, part of the reason for the AI chamber is so factory ammunition can be used as an alternative for the AI ammunition. If you're using a 30-06 AI, you should be able to use standard 30-06 ammunition in it if your AI loads are unavailable, and it will have a minimal effect on velocity, without any effect on accuracy while giving you an Ackley Improved casing without basically wasting a LR primer on just fireforming. I'd just make sure my chamber has a crush fit with the factory casing and then I'd load practice loads in standard casings and shoot them until I had a good supply of AI casings. One or two hundred practice rounds and you're in business, and if you need more casings, you just repeat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 2786102, member: 60453"] What is your AI in, and does it chamber a factory round reliably? The factory casing should have a slight crush-fit in your chamber (the bolt should close on the factory round with a little bit of effort). If that's what you have, you can fireform your casing just by shooting factory rounds, or your reloads. You can also use pistol powder, cornmeal filler and bee's wax. But when I fireformed for my 8mm-06 AI, I just necked up from 30-06, loaded the rounds, and shot the standard 8mm-06 for practice, which gave me an improved casing afterwards. You can do this without stretching your brass as long as your chamber is done properly. As a matter of fact, part of the reason for the AI chamber is so factory ammunition can be used as an alternative for the AI ammunition. If you're using a 30-06 AI, you should be able to use standard 30-06 ammunition in it if your AI loads are unavailable, and it will have a minimal effect on velocity, without any effect on accuracy while giving you an Ackley Improved casing without basically wasting a LR primer on just fireforming. I'd just make sure my chamber has a crush fit with the factory casing and then I'd load practice loads in standard casings and shoot them until I had a good supply of AI casings. One or two hundred practice rounds and you're in business, and if you need more casings, you just repeat. [/QUOTE]
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