I really enjoyed your video - especially your attention to detail, I commend you. I have been reloading for over 45 years now and I like the way you think things out before you act. What I do recommend is buying a Sheridan Case gauge, the one I got has the cutout so you can see where there is interference, if there is some and check BEFORE you prime in case the case is not acceptable according to the Sheridan gauge. There is absolutely NO room for complacency in this type of work. It can mean your life or worse case scenario, others nearby you. Check and double check, it may take longer but it gives you self assurance. Oh, by the way, I have about 10K of them to load, can you help me out !!😀
Annealing fired brass makes them very easy to full length size. The surface area on the neck and should is small compared to a necked rifle cartridge and the resizing requires a lot more force. The small rim is prone to deformation especially when FL sizing and will pull out of shell holder much easier than other rounds. Annealing the neck reduces force required substantially and stops virtually all case sticking problems. It also will extend the life of the brass. If there ever was a case for annealing this round makes it.
I don't even do that, I just lube with unique case lube and size them. Wipe them off, trim and load. Haven't had any trouble with that yet. When I first tried I was tumbling them and was getting a pretty good ammount of case neck separations. The coating is needed apparently lol.
Started reloading for this caliber, had some issues at first with my hornady die stripping the lacquer off. Had to modify the die a bit to get it to stop. Since then it has been smooth sailing. I get why reloading for this is scary though. The shoulder gets bumped forward every time you shoot it. Pushing it back during sizing work hardens the metal. Eventually the neck will shear off and get stuck in the chamber. Next bullet that gets loaded won't be able to go all the way into the chamber and depending on your gun, when you pull the trigger it will fire out of battery. Still blows my mind anyone is making guns for 5.7x28 that can fire out of battery.
inspirational! It's a year later...have you continued to load more 5.7? If so, have you run into any issues, or something to deter you from doing more?
Question i have is that i recieved a lot of cases from a friend to load. The weird thing is half the cases have a normal looking neck and half look like they are half the length they should be. Anyone have an idea why this is so.
Did it seem the tumbling removed all the varnish coating? A control group to compare would have been good to see, as I've read just wiping down any dirt and reloading preserves the varnish for a couple cycles. Also plunk testing/chamber checking the 1.15 and 1.38 to see any difference (if trimming was necessary). Wiping down the funnel and powder pan with a used dryer sheets does a good job of removing static, assume you know already but just in case. Great video to give hope to reload this caliber!
I've been reloading this, and found that a mixture of 1 part Simple Green to 4 parts water for a 15 minute soak works well in cleaning the brass. This way you can try to preserve as much of the varnish as possible.
Well i’ve been reloading for several years. I just got 500 brass and some pulled 40 grain bullets from Gun broker the gun I’m going to use is the ROCK from Palmetto State armory we’ll see what happens
When the case length says 1.135. That is what the case is suppose to be... just cuz it say 1.138 the case neck clearance and crimping the bullet and neck needs to be spot on every time because of the extreme pressure changes and powder charges. People need to understand and follow these tight tolerances when it comes to these small cartridges and high pressures.
1.130-1.140 trim length is perfectly fine. I’ve been making some pretty wild 5.7 reloads for awhile now. I even loaded some 21gr hollow points on my channel
Don't apologize for your pistol shooting. Unless their name is Jerry Miculek, no one shoots a pistol better than a rifle and you don't have to justify your ability to anyone
I really enjoyed your video - especially your attention to detail, I commend you. I have been reloading for over 45 years now and I like the way you think things out before you act. What I do recommend is buying a Sheridan Case gauge, the one I got has the cutout so you can see where there is interference, if there is some and check BEFORE you prime in case the case is not acceptable according to the Sheridan gauge.
There is absolutely NO room for complacency in this type of work. It can mean your life or worse case scenario, others nearby you. Check and double check, it may take longer but it gives you self assurance.
Oh, by the way, I have about 10K of them to load, can you help me out !!😀
Thanks for putting this together, very well produced, informative… Appreciate your effort! 👍
I love doing crazy stuff with this cartridge.
Annealing fired brass makes them very easy to full length size. The surface area on the neck and should is small compared to a necked rifle cartridge and the resizing requires a lot more force. The small rim is prone to deformation especially when FL sizing and will pull out of shell holder much easier than other rounds. Annealing the neck reduces force required substantially and stops virtually all case sticking problems. It also will extend the life of the brass. If there ever was a case for annealing this round makes it.
Step 1, DO NOT TUMBLE THE BRASS, it takes off the coating. Clean with very light Simple Green and Water solution.
YES!
I like to use redding imperial sizing wax, seems to protect the entire coating during resizing/depriming
If your gun is a FN…
I don't even do that, I just lube with unique case lube and size them. Wipe them off, trim and load. Haven't had any trouble with that yet. When I first tried I was tumbling them and was getting a pretty good ammount of case neck separations. The coating is needed apparently lol.
Started reloading for this caliber, had some issues at first with my hornady die stripping the lacquer off. Had to modify the die a bit to get it to stop. Since then it has been smooth sailing.
I get why reloading for this is scary though. The shoulder gets bumped forward every time you shoot it. Pushing it back during sizing work hardens the metal. Eventually the neck will shear off and get stuck in the chamber. Next bullet that gets loaded won't be able to go all the way into the chamber and depending on your gun, when you pull the trigger it will fire out of battery.
Still blows my mind anyone is making guns for 5.7x28 that can fire out of battery.
Nice video, I take a tarp to the range to catch my brass, wife got tired of going to pick it up. Lol
inspirational!
It's a year later...have you continued to load more 5.7? If so, have you run into any issues, or something to deter you from doing more?
Question i have is that i recieved a lot of cases from a friend to load. The weird thing is half the cases have a normal looking neck and half look like they are half the length they should be. Anyone have an idea why this is so.
Did it seem the tumbling removed all the varnish coating? A control group to compare would have been good to see, as I've read just wiping down any dirt and reloading preserves the varnish for a couple cycles. Also plunk testing/chamber checking the 1.15 and 1.38 to see any difference (if trimming was necessary). Wiping down the funnel and powder pan with a used dryer sheets does a good job of removing static, assume you know already but just in case. Great video to give hope to reload this caliber!
I noticed that some of the coating scrapped off during sizing so I don’t think tumbling removed much
I've been reloading this, and found that a mixture of 1 part Simple Green to 4 parts water for a 15 minute soak works well in cleaning the brass. This way you can try to preserve as much of the varnish as possible.
Well i’ve been reloading for several years. I just got 500 brass and some pulled 40 grain bullets from Gun broker the gun I’m going to use is the ROCK from Palmetto State armory we’ll see what happens
Thank you very much for the video. There’s not much out there on that particular subject.
When the case length says 1.135. That is what the case is suppose to be... just cuz it say 1.138 the case neck clearance and crimping the bullet and neck needs to be spot on every time because of the extreme pressure changes and powder charges. People need to understand and follow these tight tolerances when it comes to these small cartridges and high pressures.
1.130-1.140 trim length is perfectly fine.
I’ve been making some pretty wild 5.7 reloads for awhile now. I even loaded some 21gr hollow points on my channel
I’ve been loading some 21gr hollowpoint air gun pellets after I powder coat them
I have a few vids on my channel loading 55gr fmj and some 45gr sinterfire loads
Don't apologize for your pistol shooting. Unless their name is Jerry Miculek, no one shoots a pistol better than a rifle and you don't have to justify your ability to anyone
I don’t like my Lyman 51 edition manual. Not many recipes
.223 is a bitch for me cause it's small, lol. good video thumbs up.
Alot of people clean the brass.. Why not just wipe the brass down with a microfiber?
Case capacity is effected if you don’t clean inside the case
No tumbler...you ruin the lacquer. 20 minutes in Simple green and water solution. Agitate every 5-10 minutes. Dry and proceed.