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<blockquote data-quote="BrentM" data-source="post: 3064399" data-attributes="member: 61747"><p>Everything has a tradeoff. The main reason for bringing up the subject was to discuss how much sizing is needed. IE in my case if I undersize the brass .006 and use a mandrel that is .004 under bullet size vs .003 and .002, what is the net affect on SD/ES and accuracy? I was concerned about brass life at the time of asking the question if people actually test this or just go with .002 and send it. I think a few actually have messed with it and the rest just use what everyone says to use, rule of thumb .002 under OD. I am fairly convinced at this point more undersizing etc is not netting any sort of gain and in the end just a fluke that the numbers may have panned out. I need to finish dialing in this rifle now that the brass if fire formed to the AW2 chamber vs saami. I think the process I have set up for will yield decent results but so far those have been small samples so the plan is to run as much as reasonable over the garmin to collect the data. If in the end I remain in the single digit sd and accuracy is where it needs to be, I am done. I will rethink my annealing and sizing process and use my new K&M mandrels to get concentric necks with consistent seating of the bullets. All of this just to ensure I kill wolves......... it's not a rabbit hole, its a wolf hole.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrentM, post: 3064399, member: 61747"] Everything has a tradeoff. The main reason for bringing up the subject was to discuss how much sizing is needed. IE in my case if I undersize the brass .006 and use a mandrel that is .004 under bullet size vs .003 and .002, what is the net affect on SD/ES and accuracy? I was concerned about brass life at the time of asking the question if people actually test this or just go with .002 and send it. I think a few actually have messed with it and the rest just use what everyone says to use, rule of thumb .002 under OD. I am fairly convinced at this point more undersizing etc is not netting any sort of gain and in the end just a fluke that the numbers may have panned out. I need to finish dialing in this rifle now that the brass if fire formed to the AW2 chamber vs saami. I think the process I have set up for will yield decent results but so far those have been small samples so the plan is to run as much as reasonable over the garmin to collect the data. If in the end I remain in the single digit sd and accuracy is where it needs to be, I am done. I will rethink my annealing and sizing process and use my new K&M mandrels to get concentric necks with consistent seating of the bullets. All of this just to ensure I kill wolves......... it's not a rabbit hole, its a wolf hole. [/QUOTE]
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