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I generally don't trim pistol brass and have gotten moderately successful results with .38s and .357s using mixed range brass and just setting the crimp for the longest cases. However for WC loads seated flush this will obviously not be ideal. So I'm resolved to trim my entire stash to the shortest common denominator. Trouble is almost all of my brass is below the minimum recommended trim length, even a lot of factory once fired. hornady says trim to 1.145" (max 1.155"), Lyman says trim to 1.149". The majority of my brass at least of the couple dozen I measured is below 1.144", with some as short as 1.137".
Some GI once fired is 1.150" but that's the longest I've found.
So: options? I REALLY don't want to measure every case and I'm not going to. Should I give up? Should I just seat my WCs to the crimp groove and proceed as I have been?
I really don't care enough about this to individually measure and categorize a couple thousand cases.
Downsides to trimming them all to 1.137 or maybe 1.140"?
Some GI once fired is 1.150" but that's the longest I've found.
So: options? I REALLY don't want to measure every case and I'm not going to. Should I give up? Should I just seat my WCs to the crimp groove and proceed as I have been?
I really don't care enough about this to individually measure and categorize a couple thousand cases.
Downsides to trimming them all to 1.137 or maybe 1.140"?
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