Daryl;

You quoted me incompletely. The complete quote is above.

I was referring to the practice of merely fireforming raw 8X57, then loading it. As you acknowledged, this could cause stretching at the web.

Nowhere did I say that running an expander through the neck was a bad idea.

." - that is simply not true, ie: bullshit."

Thank you, however, for the information regarding modification of the .44 neck expander, as that may be valuable to others. When I formed fresh .35 Whelen I simply ran them through my RCBS FL set. Now that I am more aware of the difference in shoulder width between .35 Whelen and 9.5X57 I may employ that expander method if I form from .35 Whelen again.

As it is, I still have my previously formed (and since fired) cases and have more recently acquired a couple of boxes (bags) of Qual-Cart 9.5X57 headstamped brass and some handloads that others have formed from .30-'06 and 9.3X57.

I'm pretty well covered at this time, brass - wise.