I got 500 280AI case from Graf's awhile back. It took sometime to get them. I email Peterson and they advise as to when the case were coming out. They were petty close to that date, but at the same time I had them order for about 8 months too. I don't know how a big of a run Peterson made, but you can't fine them now. I have gotten some Lapua brass too, but only here and there. One thing for sure it take time now to get everything inline to reload presently. Peterson case lengths varied some. So I trim them out of the box to length. I cut the necks for thickness out of the box before anything else. I thinned the necks to .013, and still a little tight. Having to go to .0125. I wondered at the time of ordering the reamer, if it wasn't a little tight. (Live and learn, and first time having tighter neck chamber, and wildcat too) This was the first test firing. Necking the case down. was a learning cure too. I have reduced cases for a great many years, but nothing like this. Having to step down 4 times to keep from crushing the case. So I lost 3 cases in getting the steps to reduce the neck size. I am using Redding bushing die's. I now have 4 280AI bushing dies on hand. Set up with a bushing in each die to do the reduced sizing of the necks in line. Can't be done in one step, or I couldn't get it done in one step to reduce the neck to .241ID (or that what I felt). I haven't gotten to just which bushing I am going to use for final ID. I had order out bushing for the dies, and order out more for the final sizing. Presently unsure as to spring back on the necks for bullet tension. Those additional bushing are now on back order.
It seem to me that everything is on back order anymore. Full steam
I got 500 280AI case from Graf's awhile back. It took sometime to get them. I email Peterson and they advise as to when the case were coming out. They were petty close to that date, but at the same time I had them order for about 8 months too. I don't know how a big of a run Peterson made, but you can't fine them now. I have gotten some Lapua brass too, but only here and there. One thing for sure it take time now to get everything inline to reload presently. Peterson case lengths varied some. So I trim them out of the box to length. I cut the necks for thickness out of the box before anything else. I thinned the necks to .013, and still a little tight. Having to go to .0125. I wondered at the time of ordering the reamer, if it wasn't a little tight. (Live and learn, and first time having tighter neck chamber, and wildcat too) This was the first test firing. Necking the case down. was a learning cure too. I have reduced cases for a great many years, but nothing like this. Having to step down 4 times to keep from crushing the case. So I lost 3 cases in getting the steps to reduce the neck size. I am using Redding bushing die's. I now have 4 280AI bushing dies on hand. Set up with a bushing in each die to do the reduced sizing of the necks in line. Can't be done in one step, or I couldn't get it done in one step to reduce the neck to .241ID (or that what I felt). I haven't gotten to just which bushing I am going to use for final ID. I had order out bushing for the dies, and order out more for the final sizing. Presently unsure as to spring back on the necks for bullet tension. Those additional bushing are now on back order.
It seem to me that everything is on back order anymore. Full steam ahead!
What caliber was the Lapua brass? I have Lapua for my 7-08 and has been very good so far. I have approx 4 firings on Lapua and cases still look good.
