6.5x55 from 30-06 made easy

[mwells72774]

Tried a couple ways and finally settled on a crazy easy way.

I'm cheap. Plain and simple. So seeing the prices of swede brass, i decided to roll my own. Tried with lee dies. Tried to just run through the size die. No dice.

Tried by running through rcbs 7x57 then 6.5x55... no dice.

Looked around and found some useless to me resized 30-06 to 7.65x53 argentine. Hm... what the heck. Ran one through my new rcbs dies and bam! Success! So i seated and made a dummy round. More success! Win for thrift!!

[Hotolds442]

With the price of fine Lapua brass for the 6.5x55 as low as it is, why bother?

[Luke45]

With the price of fine Lapua brass for the 6.5x55 as low as it is, why bother?
You can get the entire life of the barrel out of 70$ of brass!!

[darkker]

If the wrong sized case head doesn't bother you, then sure, yay thrift.

[Luke45]

30-06 case head with 30-06 bolt face I don't see any issues with that. Hell, even hornady 6.5x55 cases have 30-06 sized case head

[scope eye]

Heck most of my loaded cases have the wrong case stamp on them, between component shortage and wildcating I just double check them before I go shooting.

Dean

[mwells72774]

I get 1x fired 30-06 for 15-25 cents where as the cheapest swede brass I've seen is 55cents and its almost always out of stock. Lapua brass from what I've seen is $1/ea.

[roscoe69]

I used 6.5 x 55 lee die and it worked just fine. quite surprised how easy a 270 case went in, pushed shoulder back some , extracted and removed over length neck, finished resizing and then trimmed to length. not a great looking case after firing, kind of bulging at the back.