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Originally Posted by SwampF0X
a. have tp555 make me a case gage along with my barrel
b. send my brass and case gage to someone for them to form (Who?)
c. full length size my brass with Redding dies (tp555 recommended) once I get it back
Should I have tp555 use his old reamer or the new shorter one?
Then what? Am I ready to go shooting after I load some up? Most of my brass will only see maybe 2 loadings. I don't shoot a lot and I bought enough brass to defend my home in case of invasion
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a. Yes, definately worth the money.
b. I wouldn't see why you couldn't include your chamber gauge as you will most likely ship your brass in a flat rate anyway. I am not sure if the person would change his current settings to suit your chamber but you can always ask. I do not have firsthand experience but it seems there are a few people here that offer brass forming services. Your best bet it to ask around.
c. You will only need to FL size your formed brass after it is fired and the chamber gauge can be used to set it up properly.
I would say to go with the 1.355" OAL reamer as that seems to be more common now than the 1.4" which I think was a slightly older spec.
You should be able to add a primer, powder of choice, and bullet once you get your formed brass back and be ready to test some loads.
Keep in mind that you may always have some type of slight chambering issue on newly formed brass that have not been fire formed to your chamber.
This could be anywhere from the round not chambering completely and the bolt not going into battery which stops the firing pin from hitting the primer or just a slightly rounded shoulder that makes a chambered, but not fired round hard to extract.
You can always test the rounds in your gauge but rounds being cycled in a semi auto if the real test as there are more real world factors at play.
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