Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Processing 30-06 into 35 Whelen

Shaman,your trying to make rocket science out of simple stuff.RCBS and REDDING both use tapered expander balls in their sizing dies. Lube the necks inside and out with Imperial die size wax,wipe off excess lube, do an inside the neck chamfer,prime, a starting load,and go shooting.You will now be fireformed. Resize all your new brass check the case length and trim if necessary. Course it would be easier if you just bought a new bag Rem brass. MB

Try making .240 Wby cases out of 25-06 brass.

Don't try that with once fired, only virgin brass need apply.

This process takes a LOT of elbow grease even in a big compound press, because you're sizing down the whole case, creating that magic Wby belt.

Imperial Die Wax is your friend.

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No 35 Whelen, but I do have a 338-06. The Lee sizer has a great tapered decapper that easily converts '06 brass into .338-06 cases.

DF

I loaded for 35 Whelen when I was like 12 years old, before I even heard of annealing or fireforming yet.

Once fired mil brass...they sized up fine and never cracked a neck.

But...

That was some really fine looking '06 surplus ammo available back then and it was fresh and tough mil brass.

Probably Civilian Marksmanship stuff...the blue annealing mark was very visible on the necks even though I didn't know what that was at first. I couldn't afford commercial brass so I got lucky in the draw.

Anneal then run them thru...the shoulder is the same.

I finished resizing my small stockpile of once fired and range pick up .30-06. Using Imperial Wax and a Hornady sizing die I went through somewhere between 125 and 150 cases. I lost 3 to split necks but all others look fine. Since I paid $0.00 for all the brass I used, I think the loss is more than acceptable.

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UPDATE:


I finally started getting caught up on my reloading projects this AM.

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The sized brass is on the left. The 30-06 1-fired is on the right.

I used my standard Redding FL sizing die and PRVI Partisan 1-fired brass. Prior to the session, I'd annealed the brass lightly to improve maleability. I used Hornady bullet lube for the body ground mica for the neck. Ground mica, my normal lubricant, was not enough. I had to use y'all's trick of lubricating the inside of the neck with a q-tip dipped in bullet lube. It was an energetic session, to say the least, but not the hardest job I've had pulling the handle of the Rockchucker. After doing 25 rounds, I put everything in the vibratory cleaner for a short bit to get the lubricant off.

Next step: Speer 180's over H4895. My goal is a 358 WIN-ish deer round for the Rem 7600.