I've been working on this test for a few weeks now , just more of a " can I do it " thing than anything else . Well today was trip 8 to the range , meaning the case's have been loaded & shot 8 times and in 2 different rifles , first my Handi rifle and then my Steven's 200 every other time .
I started with Wolf range pick-ups that were shot in I believe an AR platform rifle , judging by the case dints , after I checked to make sure that the rounds were in fact Boxer Primed , home with me they went . I started with a New set of Lee RGB dies ( cheap ) and a can of Imperial sizing wax to do the first resizing , which to be real honest was not as bad as I had expected . Once the case's were FL sized I checked OL of the case and used that as a base line from which to work .
Well as of today I have had no split necks as one would expect from brass being " Work Hardened " and the OL has only grown between .003 and .004 , another suprise to me being as the expander ball is rubbing & pulling on steel not brass ( tight fit ) and I'm not seeing anything that would lead me to think that their is any case head seperation starting either being fired in 2 different chambers . I'm hoping to get around 12 loadings on these case's before I start to see case failure , but we shall see , I'll keep you updated as the test progresses .
stimpy