Whats the best medium to use?I know projectiles are best,but baring that due to expense in this case. What is best that also wont hurt bore?I have a hard time getting into the cormeal thing,for that reason.Any thoughts

If you can't get past cornmeal it doesn't appear you'd get past much of anything else.

I alternate between cornmeal and Cream O'Wheat. The latter is slightly more processed. I've never had problems with either and I do have a borescope to enable checking the bore. How you can feel that the cornmeal, which you'd eat in cornbread, could not hurt you and yet hurt your bore more than a hard bullet traveling at high speed in a heated medium through a bore paved with gritty carbon residue, I don't understand. I recently read about some filler advanced for use in shot shells. Not as cheap as the cornmeal but perhaps that would assuage your unfounded fears. Don't recall the name but it was something like Polix.

I don't need a box of bullets to fireform cases?
Gene

Fireforming cases means you are going to load for a wildcat.

So you go through the trouble of paying extra for the wildcat dies and any other weird stuff you need for your caliber.

I don't understand why you have a hard time justifying the cost of buying or reloading a box of the parent caliber.

-Spencer

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Originally posted by Gene:
I don't need a box of bullets to fireform cases?
Gene

Nope. Pistol powder at about a quarter of the nominal capacity of a case, a bit of TP and fill the case with COW or cornmeal, plug it with some more TP or a wad of wax and fire away. Pretty much guarantees concentric brass.

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Originally posted by ShopCartRacing:
Fireforming cases means you are going to load for a wildcat.

-Spencer

Not hecessarily.Its primarily done to zero the gun to brass headspace

A med. loaded round will let you shoot & fireform w/ little wear to the barrel. The barrel isn't worn out by passing bullets thru it. The throat washes out do to larger doses of slow ppwders. Just fireform using med. burners & a med. load.

When I fireform .348 for .50-70 Govt or for 11mm Werndl I am unable to seat a bullet. Both .50 and 11mm bullets are costly. Cornmeal is cheap, and does not require a safe range, which for me is several miles away across town.
Cheers from Darkest California,
Ross