6mmPPC Neck thickness

[AckleyImproved]

Hi

What are peoples thoughts on neck thickness for a PPC. Minimum turn or lots of brass off the necks? Obviously I would like to turn as little as possible... but is this the most accurate? Peoples thoughts on neck thickness?

Cheers
AI

 

[WayneShaw]

With the excellent Lapua brass in use today, turning all that brass off of the neck is unnecessary. In the day, it was required in order to get a "clean" neck all the way around. Not so now.

There is a Texas shooter, quite sucessful too, that used a .269 neck all last year and kicked butt. If I ever needed to order a new reamer, it would befinately have a .269 or even a .270 neck.

Same is true with the Lapua BR brass. Any of the BR based cartridges can be almost a "no-turn" reamer.

 

[kory]

I'm putting a 6PPC together with a .269 minimum turn neck. I believe for competition, specially groups shooting, turning is required, but just enough to make the neck thickness consistant. I never understood the .262 neck. Several shooter are doing great with a .269, so I decided to follow their lead.

Regards,
Kory