Reforming cases from one caliber to another?

[huntinggamo]

I reload for .260 remington, i bought 200 pcs of nosler brass and was not very impressed, defiantly not worth the cost. im thinking of necking up .243 win or lapua brass to .260. i know this can be done and works fairly well. my concern is i forsee myself ending up with a .243 in the future.

does anybody form from one cartridge to another?
If so do you own a rifle in the same caliber as the case you form FROM?
If so how do you mark your cases for easy ID?

I cant just use marker it would come off with my cleaning, i already own a 7m-08 and 308 so just using them is not an option or solution to the problem i already have. HELP...lol

 

[pjparker]

Re: Reforming cases from one caliber to another?

The .260 Rem brass issue has been beat to death on multiple other posts on this forum and others. The search function or Google is your friend.

The reformed cartrige case will always have the parent case's headstamp, I don't know of any reasonable way to change it. Keeping them in well-marked MTM boxes is the way I deal with keeping them together, never have both on the load bench at the same time.

Among others, I have and shoot .243, .260 and .308. and I have formed .260's from .243 Lapua, .308 win, fed and rws brass so I share your concern.

I have not tried the Nosler .260 stuff, but from comments here on SH and other forums, if you are having trouble with the Nosler brass, it may not be the brass.

Paul

 

[k2peaker]

Re: Reforming cases from one caliber to another?

Marking them:
Will you ever be loading .243 and .260 at the very same time?

If not, one tip that many IPSC competitors do to ID their brass:
Place your loaded rounds in your 50/100 qty ammo boxes tip down
Use a perm marker (fine tips work well) and draw across each row
Only mark either your .260 or .243 by your convention.
Sure, most of the marker will come off during case cleaning and de-priming. But, it's rare that I have two similar calibers tumbling at the same time. And, once cleaned/deprimed they go into labelled bins (caliber, times fired, e.g.)

Probably just about everyone on this site forms brass from one caliber to another, especially with the popularity of .260. And, it's definitely been covered in quite a bit of detail before. In general, my best results have been achieved by necking up Lapua .243 brass. I neck turn just about everything though.

 

[samnev]

Re: Reforming cases from one caliber to another?

I reformed hundreds of 284 cases to 7.5X55 before the 7.5 became available at resonable prices from Graf. Don't remark them since I don't have a 284. But if I did I'd mak sure never to reload both calibers during the same reloading session or tumble both together.

 

[huntinggamo]

Re: Reforming cases from one caliber to another?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pjparker</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

I have not tried the Nosler .260 stuff, but from comments here on SH and other forums, if you are having trouble with the Nosler brass, it may not be the brass.

Paul</div></div>

The problem was the brass, it was not weight sorted like they claimed. i called and the offered to replace it, of the 4 replacement boxes 3 met their standard for weight sorting 1 still did not. it works great and as advertised was prepped, just had some qc issues at first. not to mention i can neck up .243 lapua for cheaper....

 

[dogmessiah]

Re: Reforming cases from one caliber to another?

Use well marked MTM boxes, and use differnt bullets, i.e use hollow point match bullets for one, and A-max for the other.