Halligan
Lil-Rokslider
- Joined
- Sep 19, 2024
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Hi all,
I searched around here and the rest of the internet, so to my knowledge, this topic has not been brought up, and if I missed it, please post the link. As many of you are no doubt aware, the ability to reload the 7mm backcountry is still up in the air as reloading equipment, data, and processes are slow to roll out. This has been a cause for pause for many in the market for a new rifle (like yours truly), with the additional worry of ammo availability also cropping up.
This said, I got to thinking (I've been told this is dangerous by my girlfriend) and it occurred to me that the case is effectively a slightly modified 280 Rem. Therefore, if one could resize 280 Rem brass to 7mm backcountry dimensions, it would give owners of these rifles a much bigger pallet of load options that would be perfectly fine for big game hunting (just using published 280 load data).
Thus, two questions for the fine mad scientists here:
1) Would resizing the brass be doable (assuming yes based on specs, but I'm a novice in this realm)?
2) Do you think that you/others would be more comfortable buying into the cartridge now, knowing that there is a brass case "backup" option, which offers both perfectly adequate big game performance and protection against any steel case ammo shortages from Federal?
I searched around here and the rest of the internet, so to my knowledge, this topic has not been brought up, and if I missed it, please post the link. As many of you are no doubt aware, the ability to reload the 7mm backcountry is still up in the air as reloading equipment, data, and processes are slow to roll out. This has been a cause for pause for many in the market for a new rifle (like yours truly), with the additional worry of ammo availability also cropping up.
This said, I got to thinking (I've been told this is dangerous by my girlfriend) and it occurred to me that the case is effectively a slightly modified 280 Rem. Therefore, if one could resize 280 Rem brass to 7mm backcountry dimensions, it would give owners of these rifles a much bigger pallet of load options that would be perfectly fine for big game hunting (just using published 280 load data).
Thus, two questions for the fine mad scientists here:
1) Would resizing the brass be doable (assuming yes based on specs, but I'm a novice in this realm)?
2) Do you think that you/others would be more comfortable buying into the cartridge now, knowing that there is a brass case "backup" option, which offers both perfectly adequate big game performance and protection against any steel case ammo shortages from Federal?
