Streching brass?

[Eric Johanen]

Working up my 45-90 brass from the recent Lodi, WI. Creedmoor match I have discovered a new method for stretching brass. On one relay I noticed some of my wet patches seemed to carry a little too much solution and 1 dry patch did not remove enough moisture from the chamber. Some have stretched 2-3 thousands and a few went 4-6 thousands. The bulk of the brass showed no stretching and remained at 2.400 or + .001 Those that ran long I trimmed back to 2.403 at I want to continue working up[ a good paper patch load and the chamber is just a whisker over 2.400. Probably not the best method for this but since it happened, I'll take it. Have to be more careful in squeezing them out and not carrying too much wet to avoid this happening in the future. I'll watch this batch of cases and see if I start to get any hint of separation. I do hope not but we will see.