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Necking down brass for wildcat
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<blockquote data-quote="mechengr" data-source="post: 1827947" data-attributes="member: 75894"><p>Okay everyone, if you have an extra Moron-of-the-Month trophy lying around I'll give you my mailing address because I've probably got the nomination in the bag, no contest....</p><p></p><p>I know in an earlier post I had said the decapping rod was completely removed. Well in reality I had removed the expander, but left the rod. Guess I was thinking one thing and typing another... Anyway, the decapping rod was preventing the neck from being reduced any further and was the cause of the crushes necks. Going back and rereading the original post I found on making 22x6.8 brass he explicitly lists to make sure the expander rod that comes with the 6.8 bushing die is removed, total bone head move on my part.</p><p></p><p>I removed the decapping rod and had no further issues taking the neck down to 22. Feels good to have that part figured out. I even tried it in two steps as was recommended and that seemed to work just as well as the 5 smaller steps. Attached is the end result: original 6.8 SPC case, 22x6.8 dummy round loaded with Speer 55 TNT @ mag length, 223 Rem w/ 55 TNT @ mag length, and a 22-250 for reference</p><p></p><p>I did also realize however that I'll probably have to get a separate FL sizing die... Since the hole in the bushing die was originally cut for a 6.8 diameter neck, trying to use it to size the shoulder and body on a case that now has a 22 cal neck results in only the outside half the shoulder getting sized even with the bushing in place... I've read Hornady and Whidden will make custom full length dies based on fired brass, probably will go that route</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mechengr, post: 1827947, member: 75894"] Okay everyone, if you have an extra Moron-of-the-Month trophy lying around I'll give you my mailing address because I've probably got the nomination in the bag, no contest.... I know in an earlier post I had said the decapping rod was completely removed. Well in reality I had removed the expander, but left the rod. Guess I was thinking one thing and typing another... Anyway, the decapping rod was preventing the neck from being reduced any further and was the cause of the crushes necks. Going back and rereading the original post I found on making 22x6.8 brass he explicitly lists to make sure the expander rod that comes with the 6.8 bushing die is removed, total bone head move on my part. I removed the decapping rod and had no further issues taking the neck down to 22. Feels good to have that part figured out. I even tried it in two steps as was recommended and that seemed to work just as well as the 5 smaller steps. Attached is the end result: original 6.8 SPC case, 22x6.8 dummy round loaded with Speer 55 TNT @ mag length, 223 Rem w/ 55 TNT @ mag length, and a 22-250 for reference I did also realize however that I'll probably have to get a separate FL sizing die... Since the hole in the bushing die was originally cut for a 6.8 diameter neck, trying to use it to size the shoulder and body on a case that now has a 22 cal neck results in only the outside half the shoulder getting sized even with the bushing in place... I've read Hornady and Whidden will make custom full length dies based on fired brass, probably will go that route [/QUOTE]
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