| Re: WTB 6.5 TCU brass [message #38655 is a reply to message #38654] |
Fri, 26 June 2015 09:12   |
jamesgammel
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Registered: August 2012
Location: Lovell, Wyoming
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Leroy,
If you have even the basic dies, and not the "forming" die set, You can easily neck up 25/257, and 6 TCU to make 6.5. Same with necking down 7 TCU one size to 6.5.
The original method was to get the cheapest 223 ammo you could find, and simply shoot the suckers in the TCU chamber, any one of them. Even "cheaper" is to buy a large quantity of virgin 223 brass of your favorite brand, prime with the cheapest primers that will fit, and dump in about 3 grains of a fast burning powder, like bullseye, a tuft of pillow stuffing, and shoot them off. These you can fire off almost 500 such loaded without appreciable barrel warming. That tuft going down the barrel may warm up enuff to "stick" to the rifling, but when done, a swipe or two with a SS 6.5 brush zips it right out. Cost: new brass, a primer, a small amount of powder, and common pillow or toy/dog toy stuffing. Some have mentioned TP as a sub for the ticking. I've shied away from it myself.
Jim
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