The brass must be annealed if I am going to work it into a bullet jacket. I do not anneal brass when loading cartridges.
I recently bought a set of 300 Ham’r dies to evaluate the cartridge. I only had success in expanding the necks to 30 caliber after I annealed the necks with a propane torch. Without annealing, the cases always split.
The 300 AAC is a lot easier to make a new case for. You just have to chop the neck off the 223/5.56 case, run the case into the resizing die, and trim it to the correct length.
I have decided that the 300 Ham’r juice is not worth the squeeze because the 7.62x39 is similar enough to the 300 Ham’r. The 7.62x39 however has a lot more case capacity. The only advantage that the 300 Ham’r has over the 7.62x39 is the availability of 223 or 5.56x45 cases to convert into 300 Ham’r brass. I have enough Home Depot buckets full of spent brass to last me a very long time.
The easiest cartridge to load that uses the 223/5.56 as a parent case is the Sharps 25-45. You expand the neck to .257" and clean the brass. There is no need to trim the brass because it is always the correct length after the full length resizing.
I understand some aspects of the OK Boomer sentiment, yet perhaps due to being in the middle of these groups age wise, see huge issues with how the latest generations see life in the USA.
I reject the level of entitlement they have. I also see so many just give up without even trying. This is contrasted by immigrants coming here working hard and pulling themselves up by the bootstraps in the manner Boomer are suggesting.
Far too many are lumbering, weak young men who cannot be bothered with basic hygiene and grooming, trudging around in wrinkled, spoiled clothing. Their female counterparts fair no better.
I think far too many things have been added to the list of necessities. The cost of these new “necessities” consume far too much income and these young people ruin their credit histories before they ever have a job good enough to afford a decent car. Then comes other poverty traps like check cashing services, overdraft fees, and rent to own.
Simple decisions like living single occupancy before having some basic rainy day savings seems the norm.
I just fancied a rant and went off on one a bit. It wasn’t aimed at you - though it totally reads that way. I’m sorry.
I’m not one. I’ve done ok and have a few quid. I think (?) many on this site are in this boat. It’s not about me, though. I think it is ok to lament the harder times that has been inflicted on younger people. Not by me. Not by you. But it has been.
This is exactly why I think the “boomer” narrative is so divisive and destructive. There’s been a systematic hollowing out of the working and middle classes over the last 50+ years. Short story, the oligarchs were concerned by the power of labor so capital went on strike - see the Powell Memo (1971) for details. So power, political capital, and money have been concentrated back into the hands of the few drip by drip. Naturally each succeeding generation will have it harder because shit has gotten worse over time. That’s the result of a deliberate plan made by a few. Not the fault of a group of people who were the first to feel the effects of that plan.
