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Here is more on the Shell Shock Technologies Two-piece, nickel-aluminum-stainless steel

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I heard about sig ammo awhile back.....but nothing recently.....anyone familiar with it?
Reload it?

No case stretching ?? No trimming?
I wonder if these new cases will expand in the barrel enough to seal it off?

Very interesting
 
Looks like a neat product I will have to order some next paycheck. Be awesome picking up cases with a magnet. I wonder since they are lighter will they fly further or not?
 
I can think of a couple of ways to make it work with a straight wall pistol cartridge in standard dies, basically you just have to push the case back out. Easy enough with a stick and a hammer (slow though).

Looking at their website, they have have 1,000 for $100, and the next price break is 10,K fro $850, not too bad. The dies are a set and cost $99 for the pair, which isn't great, but I've spent more on a set of dies then that before. Be interesting to see how this goes.

-Jenrick
 
I talked to the guy behind this at the last two SHOT Shows. The year before last he was all hot to open a new gunpowder manufacturing plant, using a "new process" that he claimed was less expensive and cheaper. That plan went by the wayside, and this year he was touting his new "brass cases". I've got one in the samples of stuff I pick up at the SHOT Show each year.

In my two conversations with this guy in two years, all I can say is "he's one strange dude". To quote a representative of one of the major powder manufacturers, "that guy creeps me out". I had to agree with him.

I won't be investing any time or money into this project. It may go, or it may not, but I've got buckets and buckets of good old fashioned brass cases in all the calibers I load, which will probably last me the rest of my life, and well into the lives of whoever gets my "stuff" when I go to the big reloading room in the sky.

Hope this helps.

Fred
 
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Building a new plant and going to make "brass" for Sigs line of ammo

https://www.ssusa.org/articles/2017...wsletter&utm_medium=insider&utm_campaign=0717

https://www.ssusa.org/articles/2017/2/13/goodbye-brass
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The first linked article says they will open a new plant in a facility that was previously used for manufacturing and loading Sig Sauer ammo, but I didn’t see where it says they will be making anything for Sig. Did you see that somewhere else?

One of their positive selling points which is a negative to me is that it can be picked up with a magnet. That eliminates using it at the ranges where I shoot most often.

Another “advantage”(?) is no trimming. How many brass pistol cases have any of you ever trimmed?

$99.99 sizing dies, special attachment for bullet pullers (yet to come). More internal volume which I don’t need. I’m underwhelmed. ymmv
 
If "40 reloads" is proven then, in time, that may change the collective mind.

In the immediate these might pique a few Major shooters.
 
Duvel said:
If "40 reloads" is proven then, in time, that may change the collective mind.

In the immediate these might pique a few Major shooters.
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I can already get more reloads out of my auto reloads than I can keep hold.of them. I'm certainly not going to risk losing specialty brass in the weeds.
 
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I can already get more reloads out of my auto reloads than I can keep hold.of them. I'm certainly not going to risk losing specialty brass in the weeds.
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Know I'm not getting '40' reloads out of any brass, and I recoup 95% of my brass.

And at $100 per K I might end up interested.
 
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The first linked article says they will open a new plant in a facility that was previously used for manufacturing and loading Sig Sauer ammo, but I didn’t see where it says they will be making anything for Sig. Did you see that somewhere else?

One of their positive selling points which is a negative to me is that it can be picked up with a magnet. That eliminates using it at the ranges where I shoot most often.

Another “advantage”(?) is no trimming. How many brass pistol cases have any of you ever trimmed?

$99.99 sizing dies, special attachment for bullet pullers (yet to come). More internal volume which I don’t need. I’m underwhelmed. ymmv
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You are correct. I misread that second paragraph.:oops:

As Fred mentions I have more brass then I will ever use. Not real interested in the whole new product.
 
If "40 reloads" is proven then, in time, that may change the collective mind.
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I have 45 ACP brass that has been fired and reloaded so many times you cannot read the head stamp any longer.

This stuff, if it ever gets off the ground will just be another thing to sort out. At least sorting out steel cases is something I already do.
 
I think it has its place. Alot of guys, me included will not buy into it. However I can see the draw. Magnetic. Physically stronger. Larger capacity. Might be useful for those guys chasing Major velocities that shoot and reload alot.
 
I'd like to see a locked breach pistol capable of firing these at a loading that would generate upwards of 60,000 psi. It would certainly be the last word in the 9mm vs. 45 ACP debate - until they started making a 45 ACP version of those cases.
 
Indoor ranges often check ammunition with a magnet. If it sticks, you don't get to use it - whether it's the case or the bullet that is attracted.
 
I cannot imagine shooting in a "lost brass" match and leaving 200+/- pcs on the ground at 10 cents each. Considering that I already hate to loose that quantity when I have 2 cents or less per case invested in traditional brass.
 
Me, either. When you consider the price of your gun, cost of consumable reloading components, travel money and entry fees, it seems silly to worry about brass, but that is just the way shooters are built.
 
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