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Can anyone tell me what happens to the overall length of a piece of brass when sized down quite substantially?

Example: Take a 357 Maximum brass - 1.605 inches - and size it down to 25 caliber? Does it stay the same length, grow longer or get shorter?

Thinking about creating a 25-222 Rem a.k.a. 25 Copperhead but use 357 Maximum brass because of the rim. The 25 Copperhead brass has an length of 1.660.
 
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generally speaking the neck will be long and need to be trimmed.
 
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It will get longer as you size it down, but, I wouldn't expect it to grow .060", more like .020-.030" The other thing is it won't lengthen consistantly from case to case, and you'll have to trim to the length of the shortest case.
 
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