Anonymous
10/6/2025, 11:24:11 PM
No.64362967
>>64362909
Yeah, just turn it out of brass rod. You could even gather up the scraps and cast them into new rods if you're concerned with money over time and effort. None of it is particularly demanding machining, I'd recommend rimless cartridges rather than rimmed since it will save a lot of material, but either way a rim or extractor groove doesn't need to be incredibly precise and you'll have plenty of material to work with there. IMO the biggest problem would be the primer pocket since ideally that's the side you'd want to chuck, but that's still more of an inconvenience than a problem. Turn the pocket and groove first, then flip it around and bore the body, then run it through resizing dies to form the neck and taper.
Yeah, just turn it out of brass rod. You could even gather up the scraps and cast them into new rods if you're concerned with money over time and effort. None of it is particularly demanding machining, I'd recommend rimless cartridges rather than rimmed since it will save a lot of material, but either way a rim or extractor groove doesn't need to be incredibly precise and you'll have plenty of material to work with there. IMO the biggest problem would be the primer pocket since ideally that's the side you'd want to chuck, but that's still more of an inconvenience than a problem. Turn the pocket and groove first, then flip it around and bore the body, then run it through resizing dies to form the neck and taper.