Forming brass for the 7.7 Jap

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I have a couple of Type 99s and decided that I would like to shoot them a little so I formed some brass. I run 30-06 brass through a 7.7 Jap FL sizing die and cut about a quarter inch off and trim. I used bullets I pulled from 7.62x54r.

30-06, 30-06 squeezed through 7.7 die, 30-06 squeezed and trimmed


Here's the trim die my machinist friend made for me.



The untrimmed squeezed 30-06.


I take most of it off with the bench grinder.


Then I file down to the die.


A quick spin on the deburr unit.


Over to the trim unit.


A final deburr and it's ready.


30-06, 30-06 fired case, 30-06 squeezed to 7.7, finished 7.7 case, loaded 7.7 shell

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