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necking down brass
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<blockquote data-quote="kai" data-source="post: 2130214" data-attributes="member: 98994"><p>I'm awaiting the arrival of my Bartlein 6mm ARC barrel and have been following this thread in anticipation of forming 6mm ARC brass from 6.5 Grendel brass.</p><p></p><p>Out of curiosity, tonight I tried forming a Honardy 6.5 Grendel case with a Lee 6mm ARC full length sizing die on a MEC press with Lee's sizing lube. I removed the expander from the die and cleaned the fouling off the neck of the brass with steel wool before resizing.</p><p></p><p>The brass case sized down with NO deformation.</p><p>I over sized it by pushing the neck back as much as .035" and still no collapsed areas on the case.</p><p>Then I resized a new Starline brass pushing the shoulder back .020".</p><p></p><p>Photo shows: fired Honardy 6.5 G brass - resized fired Honardy brass - resized new Starline brass</p><p>[ATTACH=full]255440[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>If this continues to work for me, I'll sand the neck portion of the full length sizing die (on a lathe) to open up the neck to the ideal size for 6mm bullets so I won't need to use the expander.</p><p>First I need to receive my barrel so I can push the shoulders back to fit my barrel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kai, post: 2130214, member: 98994"] I'm awaiting the arrival of my Bartlein 6mm ARC barrel and have been following this thread in anticipation of forming 6mm ARC brass from 6.5 Grendel brass. Out of curiosity, tonight I tried forming a Honardy 6.5 Grendel case with a Lee 6mm ARC full length sizing die on a MEC press with Lee's sizing lube. I removed the expander from the die and cleaned the fouling off the neck of the brass with steel wool before resizing. The brass case sized down with NO deformation. I over sized it by pushing the neck back as much as .035" and still no collapsed areas on the case. Then I resized a new Starline brass pushing the shoulder back .020". Photo shows: fired Honardy 6.5 G brass - resized fired Honardy brass - resized new Starline brass [ATTACH type="full" alt="20210224_231628.jpg"]255440[/ATTACH] If this continues to work for me, I'll sand the neck portion of the full length sizing die (on a lathe) to open up the neck to the ideal size for 6mm bullets so I won't need to use the expander. First I need to receive my barrel so I can push the shoulders back to fit my barrel. [/QUOTE]
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