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Old 07-14-2019 | 04:55 PM
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For a hunter, none of the practices or equipment for neck turning, bushing sizing, nor mandrel expanding is pertinent. Even for my precision rifle competition loads, I don’t need to neck turn.

For my 6 creed competition loads, I run a .269” bushing on annealed Hornady and Lapua brass, then expand with a .241” Sinclair expander. The largest group fired in my second round of load development with this barrel was .47”, the smallest was .11”. I run the same gear for 243win, 6 Dasher, and 243LBC (6 Grendel). Neck tension has a huge influence on velocity consistency, running that set up I rarely find myself outside of single digit SD’s, and occasionally find 10 shot ES’s under 10. Of course, that’s following load development to identify the appropriate powder node.
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