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< 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Rocky Mountain Cartridges |
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Fri Sep 08, 2017 11:07 am
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Location: Amarillo, Texas
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Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:44 pm
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Location: Topeka, Kansas
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The Rocky Mountain Cartridge Company may either be sold or cease to operate at the end of the year.
If you use their brass or have been thinking about it, order now. There is an eight week backlog ( at least on 16ga as they have to order bar stock to fill the order I placed today )
I have enjoyed their full length heavy brass shells and use them all the time.
Once you use their brass you will regret not finding it sooner. While there is not a large volume of tested data, there is enough to shoot.
I have some shells with over a hundred loads through them and none have worn out.
They are my and others preferred hull and I have everything possible to compare them to.
I know they are expensive, but they pay it off over time and the pleasure of shooting them
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Michael Dittamo
Topeka, KS |
_________________ Michael
Topeka, KS |
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Fri Sep 08, 2017 5:07 pm
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Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 1943
Location: Lowcountry Ga.
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Cowboy action shooters in 12 gauge reported 3000 loads out an RMC hull. Gil |
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Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:53 am
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Joined: 07 Apr 2007
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Location: northwewst Wyoming
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I have a lifetime supply of RMC brass hulls and encourage anyone wanting a hull suitable for thousands of loads to place an order with RMC. |
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Sun Sep 10, 2017 3:27 pm
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Location: Minnesota and Florida
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JSchultz -- Do you clean those brass hulls between loadings, or periodically? Thanks. |
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Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:09 pm
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Joined: 07 Apr 2007
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Location: northwewst Wyoming
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Maximum Smoke,
I periodicaly clean the outside of each RMC hull by putting them in my tumbler and give them a good polishing. No tumbler? Use 4X steel wool to shine the hulls.
I have never cleaned the insides of the hulls and I'm thinking that because I use card and fiber wads, the need to clean them is unnecessary, but then I've only reloaded them a few hundred times.
I reload 3/4 oz, 7/8 oz, 1 oz. and 1 1/8 oz. loads in RMC hulls. My reloads in these all brass hulls have given me the best patterns that I have ever had from my 16 Ga. #2 AyA. |
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Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:36 pm
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Location: Topeka, Kansas
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I have reloaded w/o cleaning but not normally
Typically I wash them in an ultrasonic cleaner then rinse. If I have a heavy glue/sodium silicate build up I use a brass chamber brush to clean them out, then back into the cleaner then a rinse and dry before reloading. |
_________________ Michael
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Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:43 pm
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Joined: 07 Apr 2007
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Location: northwewst Wyoming
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Oops, I forgot to mention that I clean the hull mouths before reloading. I chuck up a 16 Ga. wire brush in my drill press and run the brush in and out a few Tims to remove the glue used to seal the OSC. |
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 1:23 pm
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Joined: 02 Nov 2010
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Location: Maryland
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Does the "no cleaning" regimen mean black or smokeless? If we shoot black powder in the RMC cases, what is the procedure for cleaning? |
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 4:07 pm
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
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Location: Amarillo, Texas
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WELL
for me, when I use the black powder in brass hulls for duck or goose hunting,
I keep a bucket of soapy water next to my duck bucket.
When fired, the hulls get dropped into the bucket. Later, deprimed, cleaned with a bottle brush, rinsed and dried, then sized, then reloaded.
Mike |
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:53 am
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Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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Location: Topeka, Kansas
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I have no experience with black powder reloading and cannot answer.
I note the no cleaning between loads was an exception case in my hotel room while on a hunting trip and not my common course of action. |
_________________ Michael
Topeka, KS |
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