6PPC Reamer Question

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Belton45

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I am in process of ordering my personal reamer and some of the specs talked about was a 1.500" vs longer. After some thinking how could you fireform from a 1.500" chamber. My neck turned brass measures usually longer than this. Might be an easy answer. Just curious.
 
I assume that your purpose in looking at a 1.500 max case length 6PPC reamer is that you want to minimize the gap between case necks and the end of the neck portion of the chamber. Before you go any further, please watch the six segments of Jack Neary's presentation on Youtube. Just go to the Youtube main page and type in his name. I would tell you that your assumption about the advantage of this approach is incorrect, but rather than hear it from me, I think that it should carry a lot more weight from Jack, which is as it should be. Over ten years ago, I believe that Tony Boyer tried this approach, and when I had the chance to talk to him in a brief phone conversation, I asked him if he had found any advantage to it. He told me that he had not. Come back and tell us what you think after watching the segments of Jack's presentation.
 
Not ordering a 1.500". Just curious why someone would want a 1.500". I have watched Jack Neary's videos. Talked to a reamer grinder recently and said lots of people going with a 1.500" and was curious why? I specified I wanted to go with a 1.510" just due to this reason.
 
Evidently they may not know the history of this idea, or have listened to the videos.:D Sorry about my misunderstanding your question. Some times I skim too quickly.
 
No problem. At first I said "sure, sounds good" and then thought about it and just did not make sense to me due to brass expanded and turned for fireform is already longer than 1.500". I called back and changed to 1.510". Its all a learning process. Learned more about reloading and shooting with these ppc's over the past few years than I could have imagined.
 
I know that Lowell Hotenstine uses a longer neck length on his brass as he is cutting his brass to 1.500. He also uses a reamer with shorter freebore, than the standard JGS 1045 with .060, The reason why is because of his boattailed bullets, it allows him to get a bit more of the bullet into the case. I would bet what ever Lowell is doing Ken is doing, and I think both of these shooters have proven that they know what they are doing.
 
Older lots of 220 brass (lapua) used to fireform around 1.490-1.495 but the last few years, i've gotten brass that was 1.520 before forming. I hate to trim brass before fireforming so my fireforming barrel is 1.525, then i trim. Virgin brass has really varied in lenght, wall thickness and primer pocket depth the last several years. Throw in concav and convex heads and it will really make a person wonder why most people brag on lapua brass as being so great.

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