What does your blue box brass measure ?
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My 6mmbr improved is at about 469.5 at the 200 line.
dmoran
Donovan Moran
The fattest portion of the case body is what your looking for.
A micrometer will accurately find the widest part.
A caliper or blade mic can work as well, but a micrometer is the best measuring tool for the job - IME
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We'll I normally just set my Mike on the brass where I routinely set it I just measured one like I normally do an took a set of calibers an took magic marker an put a line at 200 from the end.PS this is once fireform brass not hit hard to a br improved 40 degree shoulder.
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This is my dilemma, I have 1,000 pieces of once fired brass that I need to reload. The brass measures .472 at the fat point. The rifle I shot all the rounds in I do not want to use anymore, nothing wrong with the rifle just wanted something better. Bought a new rifle, the old brass will not chamber in new rifle. Once fired brass out of new rifle measures .469. A full length die does not solve the problem. So I bought a small base body die, three thousand does not seem like much but man I need to hang on the press lever like a ape can not imagine doing it a 1000 times.Once sized the brass will chamber but not cleanly bolt is sticky, which bugs the hell out of me because I use bolt lift ease or lack there of as a pressure indicator. What to do? Sell the old brass with the old rifle? and drop close to 1K in new brass? Rechamber new rifle to fit my once fired brass? I will eventually rebarrel new rifle and buy a reamer that is more suited for 70 to 90 grain bullets. What I do not understand is why someone would want or not want a small base chamber.Can anybody guide me out of this cesspool?
You are going to have to read that to me....Sorry but I can only read digital readout...
The new rifle you mention above - new to you or newly chambered?
When Lapua started manufacturing 6BR brass, its rumored that they added .002 to the web area diameter over the Remington BR brass. Obviously, chamber reamers were ground to accommodate the new brass.
If your “new” rifle is chambered with an older Remington reamer, that MIGHT explain some of the brass problems.
If if were me, I would verify the chamber of your “new” rifle. If it turns out to be chambered with a Remington reamer , you may well be wrestling with it forever
OR it might not be that at all
Good luck
Gerald
When Lapua started manufacturing 6BR brass, its rumored that they added .002 to the web area diameter over the Remington BR brass. Obviously, chamber reamers were ground to accommodate the new brass.
If your “new” rifle is chambered with an older Remington reamer, that MIGHT explain some of the brass problems.
If if were me, I would verify the chamber of your “new” rifle. If it turns out to be chambered with a Remington reamer , you may well be wrestling with it forever
OR it might not be that at all
Good luck
Gerald
I have to measure in tenths of thousands everyday in my job never owned a set of digital mikes my bad.LOLYou are going to have to read that to me....Sorry but I can only read digital readout...
hogpatrol
Gold $$ Contributor
Hey Stan, How about your watch? Is it digital or is it one of those hard to read ones with hands?
Yes I do.Hey Stan, How about your watch? Is it digital or is it one of those hard to read ones with hands?
if you notice it isn't the right date either.We'll I also read these kind of books for settlement of the mind at the end of a long day.
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I figured you would have a Rolex!
dmoran
Donovan Moran
I figured he'd have a Mickey Mouse......
hogpatrol
Gold $$ Contributor
pirate ammo
Guaranteed to take the wind out of their sails
I bought a bunch of Puerto Rico Rolexes one time for Christmas gifts,,went over big,everyone thought they were the real thing,,
We had applicants for a machinist apprenticeship and when one of them
Was asked how many thousandths were in one inch he answered "they're pretty small, must be a million of 'em".
Is 999 the right answer?
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