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Reloading
Neck Turning-What wall thickness
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2590890" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>Making the assumptions that by hunting load you mean hunting of ungulates and not varmints so:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Caliber is in the 6mm to 9mm range with heavily constructed bullets</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Acceptable accuracy is in the 1-1.5 MOA range (~6" kill zone at 450 yards)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">There is sufficient neck clearance between the brass you have and your chamber</li> </ol><p>- then based on my personal experience no, there's no benefit. If the brass you're using is so sub-par that neck turning would accomplish anything the rest of the case is likely just as bad in terms of thickness variations as the necks and your load tuning would be difficult to impossible unless (IMO) you do way too much brass prep and sorting. The easy button at that point is to just buy better brass to start with.</p><p></p><p>The root question of why are you turning in the first place is important - wringing out the last bit of precision vs dealing with a tight chamber vs dealing with bad brass - that third reason will fall apart as garbage-in-garbage-out no matter how good your loading skills are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2590890, member: 116181"] Making the assumptions that by hunting load you mean hunting of ungulates and not varmints so: [LIST=1] [*]Caliber is in the 6mm to 9mm range with heavily constructed bullets [*]Acceptable accuracy is in the 1-1.5 MOA range (~6" kill zone at 450 yards) [*]There is sufficient neck clearance between the brass you have and your chamber [/LIST] - then based on my personal experience no, there's no benefit. If the brass you're using is so sub-par that neck turning would accomplish anything the rest of the case is likely just as bad in terms of thickness variations as the necks and your load tuning would be difficult to impossible unless (IMO) you do way too much brass prep and sorting. The easy button at that point is to just buy better brass to start with. The root question of why are you turning in the first place is important - wringing out the last bit of precision vs dealing with a tight chamber vs dealing with bad brass - that third reason will fall apart as garbage-in-garbage-out no matter how good your loading skills are. [/QUOTE]
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