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Lapua brass 308
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<blockquote data-quote="Jinx-)" data-source="post: 407539" data-attributes="member: 19791"><p>After wasting my time with Winchester and Remington brass trying to get it to shoot without getting unexpected fliers, I finally gave up and ordered a box of Lapua brass. Very nice thick brass, few necks got dented so I decided to run them through neck sizing die. As you might know my Lee Collet die haven't been friendly to me here is the link <a href="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f28/lee-collet-die-questions-55987/index3.html" target="_blank">http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f28/lee-collet-die-questions-55987/index3.html</a> so I decided to use RCBS die for its first resize, to my suprize or not it left scratches on the necks, I inspected the die before use it had mirror shining surface, after playing with die some more I found the reason for scratches, since Lapua brass is more thicker then the ones I had resized before it was scratching brass necks just before shoulders ends and neck begins, this area of the die was not polished. So I had to polish it with stillwool. After I was done with resizing I measured case length most of them were 2.007 few were 2.008 and 2.009, that was very good I would say, so I trimed them all to 2.007, then I weight them all and there were exactly 2 groups 174.0 (+-0.1) gr and 173.5(+- 0.1) that is also amazing but why I have 2 groups with such difference still a mystery, I think they were done on 2 different machines then mixed. I also measured primer pocket depth and it was 0.127 and my primer pocket uniformer is setup to 0.132 so I trimmed them to uniformed length, then I deburred case mouth, primed the cases and took them shooting to get them fire-formed for my chamber. As far as as prep did I missed anything, or maybe something I shouldn't done it like primer pockets? By the way they did shoot alright so far, 1.65" 5 shot group at 300 yards and 500 did show 5.17" but it was windy that day...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jinx-), post: 407539, member: 19791"] After wasting my time with Winchester and Remington brass trying to get it to shoot without getting unexpected fliers, I finally gave up and ordered a box of Lapua brass. Very nice thick brass, few necks got dented so I decided to run them through neck sizing die. As you might know my Lee Collet die haven't been friendly to me here is the link [URL]http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f28/lee-collet-die-questions-55987/index3.html[/URL] so I decided to use RCBS die for its first resize, to my suprize or not it left scratches on the necks, I inspected the die before use it had mirror shining surface, after playing with die some more I found the reason for scratches, since Lapua brass is more thicker then the ones I had resized before it was scratching brass necks just before shoulders ends and neck begins, this area of the die was not polished. So I had to polish it with stillwool. After I was done with resizing I measured case length most of them were 2.007 few were 2.008 and 2.009, that was very good I would say, so I trimed them all to 2.007, then I weight them all and there were exactly 2 groups 174.0 (+-0.1) gr and 173.5(+- 0.1) that is also amazing but why I have 2 groups with such difference still a mystery, I think they were done on 2 different machines then mixed. I also measured primer pocket depth and it was 0.127 and my primer pocket uniformer is setup to 0.132 so I trimmed them to uniformed length, then I deburred case mouth, primed the cases and took them shooting to get them fire-formed for my chamber. As far as as prep did I missed anything, or maybe something I shouldn't done it like primer pockets? By the way they did shoot alright so far, 1.65" 5 shot group at 300 yards and 500 did show 5.17" but it was windy that day... [/QUOTE]
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