Hey, anybody have any experience with the Winchester brass? I am doing it for the fun of it. I know Hornady and Lapua have great brass, but I just wanted to get the whole Grendel Experience, and I love forming brass!
I noticed that alot of the Winchester 7.62 brass is about 1.520" to 1.517". I am wondering about trimming it. My Hodgdon Annual Manual from last year is talking about trimming your Grendel brass to 1.515" trim to length, but AA's reloading data says that 1.520" is minimum. I am just wondering what people with any experience with Winchester are doing. I thought about trimming it to 1.515" so I can get them all to a uniform length for one thing but also because I am sure Alexander Arms is using Lapua brass and I believe the Hodgdon folks were too that is why the confusion. I would imagine that the 7.62 brass is internally different from either Lapua or Hornady factory Grendel brass anyway. I don't believe I'm going to hurt anything as it chambers fine and I'll be working with reduced loads anyway in case the cases are thicker. ( I need to do a capacity test I suppose.)
The only factory Grendel brass I have is Partizan that Wolf put out, it's the crappy 123gn SP that I bought 3 or 4 years ago and had sitting on the shelf so I pulled the bullets and am getting some dimensions from that. I suppose I need to order some Hornady and some Lapua or AA and do that also, but maybe somebody can save me a little time??!!
Any and all help is appreciated with load data for the Winchester 7.62 brass reformed to 6.5 Grendel.
LHClarke.....
I noticed that alot of the Winchester 7.62 brass is about 1.520" to 1.517". I am wondering about trimming it. My Hodgdon Annual Manual from last year is talking about trimming your Grendel brass to 1.515" trim to length, but AA's reloading data says that 1.520" is minimum. I am just wondering what people with any experience with Winchester are doing. I thought about trimming it to 1.515" so I can get them all to a uniform length for one thing but also because I am sure Alexander Arms is using Lapua brass and I believe the Hodgdon folks were too that is why the confusion. I would imagine that the 7.62 brass is internally different from either Lapua or Hornady factory Grendel brass anyway. I don't believe I'm going to hurt anything as it chambers fine and I'll be working with reduced loads anyway in case the cases are thicker. ( I need to do a capacity test I suppose.)
The only factory Grendel brass I have is Partizan that Wolf put out, it's the crappy 123gn SP that I bought 3 or 4 years ago and had sitting on the shelf so I pulled the bullets and am getting some dimensions from that. I suppose I need to order some Hornady and some Lapua or AA and do that also, but maybe somebody can save me a little time??!!
Any and all help is appreciated with load data for the Winchester 7.62 brass reformed to 6.5 Grendel.
LHClarke.....
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