Noob needs help full sizing brass

[maggitas]

Hi everyone. I need some advice/help. I have decided to reload my own ammo. I have acquired my brass and all necessary equipment. I am a little confused about full sizing my once fired brass. I really do not want to seperate my spent brass as I have 1 Bolt action and 2 semi guns. I would like to return the brass to factory spec or as close to it as possible. I accept I will lose some accuracy. But my question is can I return my brass to the condition it came as virgin brass?? Is this possible?? If not do I just bump the shoulders and resize for the semi??
Bolt Action is a TBA 308
Semi's are SR 25 match's

Thanks,

Johnny

 

[justinbaker]

Re: Noob needs help full sizing brass

for the semi you will need to bump the shoulder more than you need for the bolt actions

do you have a case comparator? ie hornady or sinclair

 

[maggitas]

Re: Noob needs help full sizing brass

I have a Hornady Headspace comparator.

 

[MALLARD]

Re: Noob needs help full sizing brass

depends on what dies your using. If you size them down as much as possible the brass should be able to cycle in all 3 guns. You might need a small base sizing die, it depends. Try it out.

you can't truly return your brass to virgin status.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Re: Noob needs help full sizing brass

I will be very surprised if you make this little idea of not seperating brass work. It may work and it may not. you would be much better off segregating brass, it is quite simple. Mark headstamps with a sharpie for the bolt and they will be easy to identify.

 

[jdmartin]

Re: Noob needs help full sizing brass

I agree with Armorpl8chikin.You could measure the length to the shoulder on all the cases,and if there is not much difference,set your dies to push the shoulder back enough for all the brass to fit the shortest chamber.
You run the risk that there is too much length difference which may produce misfires and case head separation in the longer chambers because of too much headspace.
In addition you can not tune the load to all three guns,so you are giving away the ability to improve your ammunition's accuracy potential.

 

[Fuzzball]

Re: Noob needs help full sizing brass

You can easily size to make ammo that will chamber and go BANG for all of your rifles, just sholve the cases as far into the FL die as possible. What you will lose is the benefit of custom tayloring the ammo for optimum perfomance out of each one.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Re: Noob needs help full sizing brass

If you go ahead with this plan you can expect your brass to last a very short time.

 

[maggitas]

Re: Noob needs help full sizing brass

Thanks guys. I was hoping to avoid keeping the brass seperated, but it looks like I will have to. Thanks to all that have responded.

Johnny