Cosmoline
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Thanks Ronjon! I should have done that myself.
Yes, quite a few of us. There are a number of techniques you can use. Lee sells a "7.62 Nagant" die set, but it's actually made to form .32-20 brass into rough shape. It takes some real trickery to make it function as a true 7.62 Nagant die set. If you look over on the Nagant forum there are quite a few threads on the subject. Here's the one re. my own efforts:
http://www.gunboards.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=187418
It's what I would call an advanced handloading exercise, with many complex steps. I would only advise trying it with a hand press, as a bench mounted or multi stage press either won't work or might break something important. I haven't had time to do many more batches like this, but it was pretty cool to have real Nagant cartridges at the end.
Just curious, has anybody tried to reload original brass?
Yes, quite a few of us. There are a number of techniques you can use. Lee sells a "7.62 Nagant" die set, but it's actually made to form .32-20 brass into rough shape. It takes some real trickery to make it function as a true 7.62 Nagant die set. If you look over on the Nagant forum there are quite a few threads on the subject. Here's the one re. my own efforts:
http://www.gunboards.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=187418
It's what I would call an advanced handloading exercise, with many complex steps. I would only advise trying it with a hand press, as a bench mounted or multi stage press either won't work or might break something important. I haven't had time to do many more batches like this, but it was pretty cool to have real Nagant cartridges at the end.