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Neck sizing for accuracy
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<blockquote data-quote="LDHunter" data-source="post: 1740054" data-attributes="member: 105"><p>It always seems that anyone wanting to discuss case prep ends up getting beaten about the head and shoulders by "how the bench rest shooters do it" which in my opinion can be instructive at best but my experience has shown a heck of a lot of rifles that shoot well under a 1/2" group at a hundred and brass life being about 15 loadings for non-magnum cartridges and 5 loadings for magnum cartridges and that's more than enough for me.</p><p></p><p>I have literally loaded thousands of rounds with the Lee Collet neck size only dies and don't have problems chambering rounds because I don't load hot loads for a particular cartridge and I simply discard brass before I ever need to anneal or FL size.</p><p></p><p>I like to read about how the bench rest guys do it but very little of that truly applies to my shooting or loading or hunting.</p><p></p><p>Also if you have to index your cartridges because your chamber is out of round then in my world it's a rifle problem and I'll rebarrel the rifle and have a precision gunsmith do it so my chamber will actually be ROUND not egg shaped.</p><p></p><p>In my opinion the kind of precision that benchrest shooters demand has very little to do with hunting where under field conditions it is FAR more important to pay attention to even getting a somewhat stable rest and reading your wind on the fly with no wind flags. You can chase accuracy for years and ruin your eyes staring at micrometers and agonizing about runout and thousands of an inch but when you get to actual field conditions shooting all that becomes a very very small part of the equation.</p><p></p><p>If your rifle is truly built right then hunting accuracy even at quite long ranges is pretty darn easy to achieve sometimes even with factory ammo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LDHunter, post: 1740054, member: 105"] It always seems that anyone wanting to discuss case prep ends up getting beaten about the head and shoulders by "how the bench rest shooters do it" which in my opinion can be instructive at best but my experience has shown a heck of a lot of rifles that shoot well under a 1/2" group at a hundred and brass life being about 15 loadings for non-magnum cartridges and 5 loadings for magnum cartridges and that's more than enough for me. I have literally loaded thousands of rounds with the Lee Collet neck size only dies and don't have problems chambering rounds because I don't load hot loads for a particular cartridge and I simply discard brass before I ever need to anneal or FL size. I like to read about how the bench rest guys do it but very little of that truly applies to my shooting or loading or hunting. Also if you have to index your cartridges because your chamber is out of round then in my world it's a rifle problem and I'll rebarrel the rifle and have a precision gunsmith do it so my chamber will actually be ROUND not egg shaped. In my opinion the kind of precision that benchrest shooters demand has very little to do with hunting where under field conditions it is FAR more important to pay attention to even getting a somewhat stable rest and reading your wind on the fly with no wind flags. You can chase accuracy for years and ruin your eyes staring at micrometers and agonizing about runout and thousands of an inch but when you get to actual field conditions shooting all that becomes a very very small part of the equation. If your rifle is truly built right then hunting accuracy even at quite long ranges is pretty darn easy to achieve sometimes even with factory ammo. [/QUOTE]
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