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FEDERAL .300RUMMY brass test
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<blockquote data-quote="3sixbits" data-source="post: 69265" data-attributes="member: 3661"><p>B1g_bOre: I don't know who your friend Bart Bobbit is, but I agree with what he has to say. For me I would much rather get a good lot of brass. Lay in the stock of bullets that I will be using for that rifle barrel. Then seat my bullets (three) send them off to my reamer maker and have him do the reamers from the loaded dummy rounds. when you have the finisher and the resize reamers along with your head space gauge, well you just given the smith a real helping hand. You only have to have one set of dies made to burn out a lot of barrels. For me the .338 made from this case with a sharper shoulder and full length made be a good bet. I do know if you follow a prescription such as this you are well on the way to getting to where you want to go. I'm not saying this is the way for everybody, but I only want something built that has good brass to start with. I plan on using the 6.5X57 RWS cases for another build I'm planning because I understand this to be vary good brass to work from. I have 300 new REMINGTON cases here in the shop that belong to a friend. Spinning this brass will make you sick after you spin the FEDERAL. Something else I learned about this REMINGTON throat is that it's so long it would have made ROY WEATHERBY proud if he where alive to see it. I think the old hotrodders reframe holds true with rifles too, "how fast do you want to go?,How much money do you have to spend? I know it holds true with accuracy! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="3sixbits, post: 69265, member: 3661"] B1g_bOre: I don't know who your friend Bart Bobbit is, but I agree with what he has to say. For me I would much rather get a good lot of brass. Lay in the stock of bullets that I will be using for that rifle barrel. Then seat my bullets (three) send them off to my reamer maker and have him do the reamers from the loaded dummy rounds. when you have the finisher and the resize reamers along with your head space gauge, well you just given the smith a real helping hand. You only have to have one set of dies made to burn out a lot of barrels. For me the .338 made from this case with a sharper shoulder and full length made be a good bet. I do know if you follow a prescription such as this you are well on the way to getting to where you want to go. I'm not saying this is the way for everybody, but I only want something built that has good brass to start with. I plan on using the 6.5X57 RWS cases for another build I'm planning because I understand this to be vary good brass to work from. I have 300 new REMINGTON cases here in the shop that belong to a friend. Spinning this brass will make you sick after you spin the FEDERAL. Something else I learned about this REMINGTON throat is that it's so long it would have made ROY WEATHERBY proud if he where alive to see it. I think the old hotrodders reframe holds true with rifles too, "how fast do you want to go?,How much money do you have to spend? I know it holds true with accuracy! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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