Forming 22-250 Brass

[345 DeSoto]

Can 22-250 Remington brass be formed from any readily available brass like 7.62 (.308) Military? Just curious...

 

[steveno]

it can be but why unless you are very bored? the forming dies probably ain't cheap. 22-250 brass is readily available. heck I would buy factory ammo before I would start forming them from 308 brass

 

[45ACPUSER]

The base case is the 250 savage, and so you will need a series of dies to work the case down. To me the cost of the dies and effort would out way any effort.

 

[345 DeSoto]

Thanks guys. Just a thought...

 

[Jim Watson]

As said, it is called the .22-250 because it is the .250 Savage necked down to .224. When it was a wildcat, that is how you had to make brass. Nowadays, the .250 is so uncommon that people load for them with .22-250 brass necked up instead.

Theoretically, you could make them out of any standard head diameter case. It would take about $400 worth of dies and a lot of labor to do the job, however.

 

[243winxb]

http://www.huntingtons.com/dies_caseform.html Link to list of case form dies available. If you can buy the brass over the counter, buy it.

 

[ranger335v]

"Can 22-250 Remington brass be formed from any readily available brass like 7.62 (.308) Military? Just curious..."

Yes. I do it frequently, including from .30-06. But it is a pain to size it down that far.

I finally gave up using just a .250 FL as an intermediate die and made my own set of (six) forming dies from an assortment of used .22-250 sizers I bought cheap.

Such reforming is a good thing to do if you have a clear performance goal in mind but it's really not worth it just to form "cheap" brass, IMHO.