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New to reloading 338 Lapua. Using 300 grain Berger with Lapua Brass
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<blockquote data-quote="el matador" data-source="post: 1316992" data-attributes="member: 12193"><p>Neck sizing is not necessarily the best way to size brass. It may or may not give you the best results in your rifle, so I would try out the Forster F/L dies before you go out and buy more stuff. I like to compare a fired case to a full-length resized case to see how much difference there is. I also check the same measurements with the expander ball removed from the die so I can see how much the neck is getting worked. With a match grade chamber and good quality dies such as Forster you won't be working the brass very much. The neck of the die can be honed out if you're sizing that area excessively. I use a plain old Redding 2-die set for my 338-378 and the brass gets worked very little. </p><p></p><p>I would not mess with neck turning unless there's a good reason to. Lapua brass is good stuff and should be fairly uniform. Measure the neck diameter of a fired case and compare it to a loaded round. If the fired case is at least .002" larger you have no need to neck turn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="el matador, post: 1316992, member: 12193"] Neck sizing is not necessarily the best way to size brass. It may or may not give you the best results in your rifle, so I would try out the Forster F/L dies before you go out and buy more stuff. I like to compare a fired case to a full-length resized case to see how much difference there is. I also check the same measurements with the expander ball removed from the die so I can see how much the neck is getting worked. With a match grade chamber and good quality dies such as Forster you won't be working the brass very much. The neck of the die can be honed out if you're sizing that area excessively. I use a plain old Redding 2-die set for my 338-378 and the brass gets worked very little. I would not mess with neck turning unless there's a good reason to. Lapua brass is good stuff and should be fairly uniform. Measure the neck diameter of a fired case and compare it to a loaded round. If the fired case is at least .002" larger you have no need to neck turn. [/QUOTE]
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