7mm saum reamer question

[canuck]

Anyone know what freebore I need for a 7mm saum with the hornady 180 eld match? I called PTG, called back...got three different freebores from them .180, .220 and .230. This was not from Dave Kiff as I expect he would have had the correct answer for me.
Anyway,After some other research I am guessing it is more around 0.265 . I arrived at this from guys who chambered 284 for this bullet and the freebore ended up being approx 0.290- 0.295 . With the 7mm saum having approx 0.03 longer neck I thought 0.260- o.265 would be about right.
Does this make sense to you guys or am I missing something ?

 

[swd]

Seat a round where you want it and send it to JGS. You'll get a reamer that's in spec and on time.

 

[canuck]

Sounds easy but they frown on that sort of thing at the border( even though they are dummy rounds).

 

[Kurz]

Even if you can't send a dummy cartridge because of the CA/US border, you can go online and download a blank reamer print onto which you can write the dimensions which are important. I've done this on a couple of occasions where particular dimensions are changed while others remain the same. Freebore is one of those to change and leave the others alone.

Regards.

 

[Matt P]

Anyone know what freebore I need for a 7mm saum with the hornady 180 eld match? I called PTG, called back...got three different freebores from them .180, .220 and .230. This was not from Dave Kiff as I expect he would have had the correct answer for me.
Anyway,After some other research I am guessing it is more around 0.265 . I arrived at this from guys who chambered 284 for this bullet and the freebore ended up being approx 0.290- 0.295 . With the 7mm saum having approx 0.03 longer neck I thought 0.260- o.265 would be about right.
Does this make sense to you guys or am I missing something ?

I haven't seen a 180 ELD but as an indication my reamer has a 0.233 FB and is about perfect for 180 VLD's and works with Hybrids but there's a fair bit of bullet hanging out of the case. If I was going to set up purely for Hybrids I'd reduce the FB to 0.180-0.190.
Matt P

 

[BOB LEE SWAGGER]

I have a 190 freebore. It handles the 180 hybrid, 183 SMK and the 195 EOL very well. It was made for the hybrids.

 

[canuck]

I currently have a .180 freebore. I was finally able to pick up 180 eld match bullets today and loaded a few dummy rounds. A .180 freebore is nowhere near enough for this bullet. I had to turn my seater out 80 thou to get an acceptable depth.SO I guess .260 is about right, .280 would probably be even better.. I think I will get my smith to throat it to dummy rounds to see if they are going to shoot. If they do I will order a .270 reamer for the next barrels. This bullet requires a lot of freebore.

 

[kvd]

I was finally able to pick up 180 eld match bullets today and loaded a few dummy rounds.

What is the length of this bullet?

Ken