animus_divinus
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im not sure if this topic has been touched on in the past, i cant seem to find much with the search feature, but im curious as to if people on here have ever made their own rifle brass, or have been considering it, maybe not so much to keep costs down, but maybe as a self sufficiency project, or for those shooting cartridges that are nearly, or entirely impossible to find brass for?
making primers, bullets, even black powder (for older cartridges) isnt that difficult to do, but im all sure we agree that brass is just a large question mark to most of us, and im sure most of us wishes we had a way to get past that.
i guess the ways you could do it is maybe casting the straight-walled profile of your brass after making a mould, small, simple foundrys are very inexpensive to make and are in fact capable of melting brass.
you could probably lathe out the same profile from a brass rod
last option is drawing brass, which in my best guess would take equipment none of us could afford in our wildest dreams
if casting was in fact an option, wouldnt it be cool is if after your old brass was used up and cracked that you could in fact melt it down and make more?
making primers, bullets, even black powder (for older cartridges) isnt that difficult to do, but im all sure we agree that brass is just a large question mark to most of us, and im sure most of us wishes we had a way to get past that.
i guess the ways you could do it is maybe casting the straight-walled profile of your brass after making a mould, small, simple foundrys are very inexpensive to make and are in fact capable of melting brass.
you could probably lathe out the same profile from a brass rod
last option is drawing brass, which in my best guess would take equipment none of us could afford in our wildest dreams
if casting was in fact an option, wouldnt it be cool is if after your old brass was used up and cracked that you could in fact melt it down and make more?