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Help with forming brass for a 30 caliber Wildcat (Read 2412 times)

Bigbore6969 Newbie Offline Posts: 6 Joined: Aug 18^th, 2024	Re: Help with forming brass for a 30 caliber Wildcat Reply #30 - Oct 16^th, 2024 at 10:39pm	Print Post
	Dale, this is the companion rifle to the gun sold on Gunbroker back in August. Obviously owned and built by the same person. I now believe it is a 30-30 x 1 1/2. Is it possible to order a die set from a custom wild cat die maker or is this something I will need to put together myself. Regards, Dennis


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wader4 Participating Member Offline Posts: 46 Location: Eau Claire WI Joined: Sep 3^rd, 2013	Re: Help with forming brass for a 30 caliber Wildcat Reply #31 - Oct 24^th, 2024 at 5:04pm	Print Post
	I bought the Hoch rifle that sold on Gunbrokers on 8/26/24. It said it was a 30-30 1 1/2 inch, which I have dies for a.338 30-30 1 1/2. It was not. It’s a smaller version of a 30 Schwartz. I borrowed a die set and it’s smaller just by a touch. I made a chamber cast and finally squeezed a few down to fire form them. What a pain! Hopefully it will be worth it.


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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1931 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: Help with forming brass for a 30 caliber Wildcat Reply #32 - Oct 27^th, 2024 at 12:10am	Print Post
	Hornady will also make hydraulic forming dies which I found long ago is well worth the cost, saving components and wear on your barrel. In particular if you are forming wildcat cases to be used for varmint shooting, as you generally need many, many cases. For use in schuetzen the number necessary is minimal which makes the process much simpler, as you can generally cobble the number needed together with oddball dies on hand or easily obtainable. It has been ten or so years since having Hornady make the hydraulic forming dies, delivery time and current cost you can surely find online.

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Dellet Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1090 Joined: May 19^th, 2017	Re: Help with forming brass for a 30 caliber Wildcat Reply #33 - Oct 27^th, 2024 at 11:00am	Print Post
	wader4 wrote on Oct 24^th, 2024 at 5:04pm: I bought the Hoch rifle that sold on Gunbrokers on 8/26/24. It said it was a 30-30 1 1/2 inch, which I have dies for a.338 30-30 1 1/2. It was not. It’s a smaller version of a 30 Schwartz. I borrowed a die set and it’s smaller just by a touch. I made a chamber cast and finally squeezed a few down to fire form them. What a pain! Hopefully it will be worth it. The Schwartz chambers are a straight taper all the way to the rim. What has worked well for me is cutting a 32-40 die off at the appropriate base diameter. Then pressing the case into the die all the way to the rim. You will need a good lube and then knock the case out of the die from above.


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