Yep, we both do silly things! Made 11.15x60R from .45 Basic cases by adding a "Spiralok" snap ring in front ore the rim to made up the necessary thickness to match the Mauser "A" base. Didn't have a proper tool for the snap rings so just pushed them down. They caused a scratch in several cases so the split in spite of annealing before firing them.

Did the sleeving trick to make .41 Long Colt from .38 Special. Also have made .41 LC from .30-30 and 7.62x39, 9mm Largo and 7.62x25 from .223 and .357 Magnum, 9mm Browning Long from .38 Super, and others. 7.5x55 Swiss from .284 Winchester, that would have been easy if dies had been available in 1968! Now it isn't necessary since Prvi Partisan brass is available.

The sleeved .38 Spl. .41 LC was problematic. When they are sized the sleeve will stick in the die and pull off the case while sizing the front of the case back to its' original dimension. They don't get a second chance. I have about 200 from .30-30 and 7.62x39, that's plenty for my New Army and re-bored .32-20 Army Special for as much as they are shot.

One of the funniest was the 10.4 Vetterli. Finally decided on 8mm Lebel for a base case, and then found that at least one Italian ammunition maker had actually used the same case, already headstamped(!), for military contract ammunition. I ordered some LBT 44-325 LMCWN .44 Magnum bullets unsized and un gas checked, from Beartooth. They work fine so far, although I have only fired them once, and lost a few because they were annealed too deep. They stuck badly because of this and had to be driven from the chamber! This was with Trail Boss.

Mostly brass was not available for any of these when I started loading for them. The only one I will not buy is .41 LC from Starline. $200+ for 250, that's more than twice what they want for 500 of anything else! Really don't shoot any of them much, and don't expect to, so I would rather improvise from the 40+ different die sets I have when possible than go to the expense of buying a set for maybe 1-200 rounds.

Too bad we aren't a bit closer, it could be interesting!