Makin' 30 & 32 Remington Brass

Glad it worked for you I have no photos on my end though

I need to buy a set of 32 Remington dies. I have brass already.

I picked up some reloading stuff at a flea market and there was a set of 30 remington dies in the mix.

I have a Rem Model 14 pump in 32 Remington. I got my dies from Redding about 3 years ago and they cost me about $89 at that time. I just looked at their dies online, and they are $144.25 now. I thought $89 was bad. Three years ago Redding was the only die maker that listed 32 Rem. I was lucky and found 3 boxes of new un-primed empties at a Cartridge Show in St. Louis for $10 a box. I also got 4 boxes of shells with the rifle. My rifle was made in 1927, and the chamber is long. When shooting some of the original shells, the primers backed out from .004 to .014. I had to fire form the brass with MBC 32-40 coated bullets and Trail Boss powder. Once fire formed I just size the brass enough to have the neck hold the Speer 180 grain bullet tightly.

I hate to spend that much money for a set of dies that will not be used that much.
I did pick up some old boxes of old loaded 32 Remington ammo. But would like to get the dies to play some with this gun.

Does 6.8 SPC brass help anything?

They kind of have you over a barrel on the dies there. You said you have 30 30 dies. Use those to resize and get a shellholder to fit might be an option. But you are going to work the neck/shoulder a lot more and it will fail there sooner. Just thinking out loud here.

.455_Hunter said:

Does 6.8 SPC brass help anything?

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Looking now I see it's way too short. Too bad.

Trivia Alert:
Ca 1950 when Remington was preparing for a new target-varmint round, they considered necking down the .30 Rem to .224", which would have been a rimless Zipper or Wasp, depending on the length and shoulder chosen. But they concluded that the draw blanks for .30 came out too thin in the head web for the pressures envisioned. So they made up an all new cartridge from scratch, the .222.

I like the 222 remington round. I have an old Remington 700 in 222.

I guess if you have the time and don't mind the way the case heads look or having incorrect headstamps. Grafs has .30 & .32 Rem brass in stock; even if I didn't mind wrong headstamps (which I do), if my machines aren't saving me at least $1 for every minute I'm using them on something like that, it ain't worth my time. But then, reloading in general isn't worth my time from an economic standpoint, just that some of the cartridges/loads I use can't be had commercially.