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What's the effect of using heavier brass?
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2398709" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>Even if you measure the case capacity difference, you'll still have to shoot (at least part of) the ladder with the new brass to work up. That's the only way to know the answer to your question. You don't have to go all the way to the bottom, but at least drop 10% from max and work back up to the top.</p><p></p><p>And if you're trying to find max pressure, you have to do that in fired brass - new brass will behave differently the first time it expands and pressure signs will change on the next firing. Tuning wise you can adjust the load a couple tenths and stay in the node going from new to reloaded, but if you max out something in new brass be careful the second time out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2398709, member: 116181"] Even if you measure the case capacity difference, you'll still have to shoot (at least part of) the ladder with the new brass to work up. That's the only way to know the answer to your question. You don't have to go all the way to the bottom, but at least drop 10% from max and work back up to the top. And if you're trying to find max pressure, you have to do that in fired brass - new brass will behave differently the first time it expands and pressure signs will change on the next firing. Tuning wise you can adjust the load a couple tenths and stay in the node going from new to reloaded, but if you max out something in new brass be careful the second time out. [/QUOTE]
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