Hippie Farmer
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I bought 100 pieces of Lapua brass for 22-250 Rem, when they were on sale, maybe a year ago. Well, finally last week I got around to finding a use for them. I've been receiving daily reminders that turkeys in South Texas aren't going to let a little Covid slow them down any on their seasonal mingling activities. I can't blame them. Driving on these country roads around here I've been seeing solitary hens in the fence lines almost every day. In fact, a couple of days ago we had a new event at the Hippie Farm. My dog brought me a turkey egg. Well, she really didn't bring it to me, it's more like I was standing in her way when she was traveling from where she found it to where she was going to find a shady spot to get more familiar with this new treasure she had found. She's so funny when she has something large like that in her mouth and she tries to look like her mouth is empty.
"Whatcha got, Kaki?"
"Mmmm, mmm, mmm. Rut, row. Rothing. Mmmmm."
Anyway, the egg is in my refrigerator now. So where was I....? Oh, yeah, I ordered some Hornady 55 grain FMJBT and planned on developing a load for turkeys using that Lapua brass. The way things have been going around here hopefully I can get the load worked up before the season ends. The Fall season.
When I started sorting the brass out I noticed a lot of the cases were short. My book says the case trim length for 22-250 Rem is 1.902". I fudged on that a little and I put all the cases that measured 1.900" or longer into one group. I had 22 cases left over that measured anywhere from 1.899" to 1.884". So my question is, What can I do with those cases? My initial assumption is that too much time has transpired to return them, but I guess it wouldn't be too much trouble to email or phone Lapua just to verify. But beyond that what can I do ... load 'em up a couple of times and see if they stretch out? I'm serious. What do you guys do with brass that's shorter than the spec's?
"Whatcha got, Kaki?"
"Mmmm, mmm, mmm. Rut, row. Rothing. Mmmmm."
Anyway, the egg is in my refrigerator now. So where was I....? Oh, yeah, I ordered some Hornady 55 grain FMJBT and planned on developing a load for turkeys using that Lapua brass. The way things have been going around here hopefully I can get the load worked up before the season ends. The Fall season.
When I started sorting the brass out I noticed a lot of the cases were short. My book says the case trim length for 22-250 Rem is 1.902". I fudged on that a little and I put all the cases that measured 1.900" or longer into one group. I had 22 cases left over that measured anywhere from 1.899" to 1.884". So my question is, What can I do with those cases? My initial assumption is that too much time has transpired to return them, but I guess it wouldn't be too much trouble to email or phone Lapua just to verify. But beyond that what can I do ... load 'em up a couple of times and see if they stretch out? I'm serious. What do you guys do with brass that's shorter than the spec's?