What options to make 6.5 x 47 from other brass?

[NZVarminter]

I'm having a Rem 700 built up in 6.5 x 47 with a Hightech stock as a light weight hunting rifle as well as paper shooting.

Main game will be feral goats, and you can easily go throu 100 rounds in a day, and the biggest problem is recovering your fired cases, particularly when Lapua 6.5 x 47 brass is 2.5 x the cost of anything else!

So I'd like to try making 6.5 x 47 brass from some other "cheaper" but still reasonable quality brass.

I've had a play running some 22-250 and 243 brass through the 6.5 x 47 die, and both can be reformed. Got to be carefull with the 22-250 brass or the side/shoulder junctions can bulge, and obvoiously needs to be fire formed.

243 brass formed ok, but requires a lot more trimming, annd was a slow process as your pusing the full shoulder back so have to take it in little bits.

Is there any other case worth using, and any otehr factory dies that work to do intermediate sizing to make a better job?

Maybe the new 308 Marlin express, or what ablut the original 300 savage brass??

Thanks

Grant

 

[ChrisNZ]

Geez Grant, you're keen.
Using a 6.5x47 for goats is like buying a late model car as a paddock racer

I use a .223 for "bulk" goat shooting and take along the Lapua or my old .270 occasionally. Also, burning off 100 rounds in a session isn't great for barrel life.

cheers
ChrisNZ

 

[Bolo]

Grant, I did a test for my friends rifle using 300 Savage brass. Squeezed them down in the body die then trimmed and turned. Got good velocity with the 123's and a 24 inch barrel using Varget and N150. Reduce powder charges since the Savage case has a large flash hole and primer. Standard low end charges blew primers.

Steve

 

[NZVarminter]

ChrisNZ

Ha, good point, its easy to loose sight of the big picture! I'm worried about brass cost, but I'll probably wear out the barrel before I'll save the difference on brass cost!

Cheers

Grant

 

[camac]

Chasing pigs and goats in my younger days I used to throw down a hat, or similar when I let off a volley, then come back find hat and shells. Once in the practise it works well. - mind you no good if you have a camo hat - perhaps you could carry some flouro orange strips in your pockets.