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308 winchester reamer question
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<blockquote data-quote="jlrookstool" data-source="post: 734071" data-attributes="member: 42676"><p>This is not on a .308 but a .338. It had a tight standard reamer used on it and still when you neck turn down your brass to anywhere near even, say .125" the you have .006 or .007 neck clearance which is pretty sloppy and also leaves you with almost no neck tension with standard dies. The reason for standard reaming was to allow the use of factory shells. I have never shot any but reloads so now I realize that was a poor decision. Now it looks like my barrel is going to get a little shorter and a custom sized reamer used and hopefully dies can be bought at the same time to fit it. In addition, it really over works the brass with that much clearance to expand in and then size back down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jlrookstool, post: 734071, member: 42676"] This is not on a .308 but a .338. It had a tight standard reamer used on it and still when you neck turn down your brass to anywhere near even, say .125" the you have .006 or .007 neck clearance which is pretty sloppy and also leaves you with almost no neck tension with standard dies. The reason for standard reaming was to allow the use of factory shells. I have never shot any but reloads so now I realize that was a poor decision. Now it looks like my barrel is going to get a little shorter and a custom sized reamer used and hopefully dies can be bought at the same time to fit it. In addition, it really over works the brass with that much clearance to expand in and then size back down. [/QUOTE]
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