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Posted: 4/30/2009 10:22:20 AM EDT
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Just getting started in the reloading game of 50 BMG, pretty much intimidated right now, I have read that bolt gun brass is much better than machine gun brass. How do you know the brass was fired out of a machine gun? Is it safe to assume most brass is shot from a machine gun?
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Just getting started in the reloading game of 50 BMG, pretty much intimidated right now, I have read that bolt gun brass is much better than machine gun brass. How do you know the brass was fired out of a machine gun? Is it safe to assume most brass is shot from a machine gun? Thanks for any advice, Virtually ALL "once-fired" brass you'll find for sale is machinegun brass. For 100% certainty that a particular lot of brass was not MG fired, you need to buy it NEW from a reputable company. If you have someone you TRUST, you might buy some that he claims was only rifle fired. I got burned once doing this because the guy's supplier was a PD and they only owned Barrett rifles. Someone in the PD was sneaky and snuck in some M2HB fired brass that wasn't worth a crap. -David Edgewood, NM |
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Just getting started in the reloading game of 50 BMG, pretty much intimidated right now, I have read that bolt gun brass is much better than machine gun brass. How do you know the brass was fired out of a machine gun? Is it safe to assume most brass is shot from a machine gun? Thanks for any advice, The bolt face of an M2 usually, but not always, leaves two parallel marks or lines on the face of the case. These cases will need more trimming, and the initial sizing may require more force, and they may for those reasons (brass flow from first firing) not last as long as cases fired in a kinder and gentler weapon, but they'll do for several reloadings. BTW, I started reloading in high school, back in "Happy Days" times, but when I got into the .50 BMG a couple of years ago, I was "pretty much intimidated" too... shows you have some common sense about channeling large explosions going off a couple of inches from your face ! But proceed slowly and ask questions from the good guys here, and elsewhere, like the Barrett forum, and it'll all fall in line. |
| For MG shot brass use Imperial sizing wax. I had problems with cases sticking before, I haven't had one stick since I switched. Thanks David for recommending this. Once you size it the first time it'll shoot and reload like any other brass. |
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