Brass won't neck size

[thirty06]

They said they'd take care of it, unless it's within there spec's.

[thirty06]

Update, no word back on barrel yet.
But they did send 200 brand new brass to replace what
had been shot in barrel. Makes me think must have been
a problem and they are fixing it. Will keep updating.

[HogFan4Ever]

Got the barrel back, here is the link to the update in customer feedback. ;D

http://savageshooters.com/SavageForum/index.php/topic,34951.0.html

[flatshooter]

Buying a neck sizing die won't fix the problem, it will just hide it.
I load for 4 different .223 and just like to be able to grab a box of
re sized brass and load. Like I said don't normally neck size' just trying
to make this barrel shoot decent.


It doesn't shoot as good as the old
factory barrel I pulled off.

Funny you mentioned that.... I went through that with McGowen myself. They said for a 1:12 .243 you can use up to 85 grain bullets. And then He stated to use a 85 grain bullet, coz that's what his gunsmith told him. Dan doesn't handload. Then he refered me to a twist calculator, and that seemed to help. I was shooting 3 or 4 inches at 300 yds. I got a load with the twist calculator down to 1 inch at 300. But there's other varibles involved with another calculator, from JBM Ballistic on stability.

http://kwk.us/twist.html
http://www.jbmballistics.com/cgi-bin/jbmstab-5.1.cgi

[bigedp51]

I'm 60 years old and the world I grew up in no longer exists, Remington firearms is now owned by a large International (French?) corporation, and Winchester now belongs to General Dynamics weapons division.

Our brass cartridge cases are being pushed to the side by Companies like Lapua when it comes to quality control standards. If you are looking for quality and uniformity in your cartridge cases then buy Lapua just as the bench rest shooters do. If you measure an American made case at the base web area and measure a Lapua case you will see that our American made case are on the small side of manufacturing limits.

On top of this European made firearms and ammo can differ greatly between the European CIP standards and American SAAMI standards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_L_problem

On top of this you have plus and minus tolerances for chamber reamers, cartridge cases and reloading dies, your chamber is on the plus side, your reloading dies could be on the plus side contributing to your problem.

Also please note the first thing a bench rest shooter does if he is using off the shelf standard reloading dies is to remove the ball expander to reduce case neck misalignment.

If your are going for the utmost in accuracy you need custom dies, a custom chamber and good quality brass.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/bigedp51/misalignment-c.jpg

Below are two different manufactures of .303 British brass that have been fired once in the same Enfield, guess which one has a larger base diameter.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/bigedp51/privihxp.jpg