Neck Reaming vs. Turning...or Both?
Neck Reaming vs. Turning…or Both?
This will be my first endeavor with the 7 mm Remington Magnum cartridge. I am going to be launching projectiles from the Savage 11/111 Long Range Hunter (AccuTrigger, AccuStock and muzzle brake with 24 total inches of rifled barrel). My goal is to maximize the accuracy potential of this system by hand crafting ammunition of the most consistent that I can produce.
My questions are:
1. What method of addressing neck thickness/projectile gripping tension/concentricity is the most beneficial?
2. Should I be looking at outside neck turning or neck reaming?
3. How does one establish the correct thickness for the neck wall? What is the optimum dimension for this cartridge?
4. I anticipate using standard Redding dies and setting them so that only the neck is resized and the shoulder is never set back after the first firing. Should I instead be looking at a neck sizing only die? This will be the only platform in my battery of this caliber and so the product will never be used in another firearm.
5. What brand brass does one recommend? I was originally drawn to the Nosler offering but read some less than flattering reviews on the Midway USA website. Many others were comparing the Nosler brass to Norma very favorably???
I have never had good success with Remington reloading components or ammunition but have thoroughly enjoyed their firearm products.
6. Winchester Western brass is currently used in all of my long arms, pistols and revolvers. Should I go for WW?
Neck Reaming vs. Turning...or Both?
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Slowpoke Slim
TC260 has it right on 1-4
5 Nosler brass is made by Norma, for Nosler, with the Nosler headstamp on it. It is good brass for sure.
6 If you absolutely want the most precision rifle accuracy you can possibly get, walk away from the Winchester brass. Or at the very least, buy 500 pieces and start weight sorting it, hopefully you'll come up with 100 that are pretty close to same weight.
Not sure if Lapua makes 7 mag brass or not? I don't own a 7 mag. But Lapua brass is also very good brass.
I don't want to pick a fight here...but Nosler brass is actually made by a variety of soucres and not just Norma, this according to their pro-shop staff and their website....a quick look at Norma's and Noslers brass offerings will point out that Nosler sells several calibers Norma doesn't make (17 Rem, 257 Roberts...just a couple I know of)....they may well source some of it from Norma but certainly not all of it. That being said, I use Nosler brass in several of my rifles (257 Roberts and 308) and have been very pleased with it....My 257 Roberts is an Ackley Improved and I've yet to lose a piece of brass from fire-forming it, which right there speaks of it's quality.