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Ball brass is a universal term used to describe fired military issue rifle brass that had been loaded with a metal jacketed bullet (ball) and a full charge of powder.
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I also have some .308 blanks that have no bullets in them, but have an unspent primer and a red plug in them. There is powder in them. When I shake them, I can here the powder shaking around. You mentioned ball brass, as others have. What is ball brass?
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csparks1106: Yes sir, been through that drill myself many yrs ago. 243's out of mil 7.62x51 issue match ball brass. They were hard and thick. Had to neck ream. There is some 7.62x51 blank brass around here somewhere, but never had need nor desire to mess with them because of the availability of regular mil. ball cases. Other things aside, don't think that it's worth the effort to ding around with those blanks. Come to think of it, many things aren't worth the effort any more.
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Had some years ago and thought I'd make .243's out of em'. I didn't have case forming dies but rough trimmed them with a tubing cutter. Seem to remember they were pretty thick in the neck area and used a neck reamer on them. Finally gave up the idea as it was looking like a lot more bother than it was worth. Brass ain't that expensive to go thru all that bother and likely should have had the forming dies.A local gunsmith here makes a stretched, high performance .223 Rem out of 5.56mm blank rounds.
Interesting. I wonder why you couldn't cut off the end and make a usable .308 round out of it?
Mike
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A local gunsmith here makes a stretched, high performance .223 Rem out of 5.56mm blank rounds.
Interesting. I wonder why you couldn't cut off the end and make a usable .308 round out of it?
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A local gunsmith here makes a stretched, high performance .223 Rem out of 5.56mm blank rounds.
Cheers from New Zealand
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"Are they just training rounds for the military"?
Yup
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Are they just training rounds for the military?
Only places I have seen them used are at Military ceremonies like funerals.
-----------J
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heh, wearing a glove, i could fan my garand-on-blanks about 4 times a second and drive my weasly platoon leader nuts ...
bored troopers are easily entertained...
ken
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Actually it's a 7.62x51 military blank used in the M-14 and M-60 machine gun that are fitted with blank adapters. Don't know what manufacturing processes they went through but there is still plenty of inexpensive military ball brass around yet.
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Are they just training rounds for the military?
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Scrap. There are warnings about attempting to reload. Apparently the brass did not go through the same process as that for ammoDon
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308 blank.
So, what good is it? Any?
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