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Originally Posted by Romeyo
Lapua makes .308 palma brass that uses small rifle primer pockets, a smaller priming hole and "lapua quality" tolerances, they're cheaper than 7mm Rem BR brass and also readily aviable. So why not giving it a chance? I don't mind neck turning since It won't have a bad effect on accuracy I guess 
Only thing I'm worried about is case forming. Is it as simple as running a proper shortened (and lubed) .308 palma case through a .338BR (full lenght) sizing die and then neck turn and trim it?
Trimming and shorting would be done on a leathe, so no real issue.
Martin |
you pretty well got it. cut to near proper length, run through the sizing die(lubed), trim and neck turn. Should be good.
The Lapua Palma brass will also be thicker most likely, since you're cutting it down from the .308 length. That cuts down the case capacity so you probably won't get as much powder in the case as you could with the BR brass. You'll have to work up loads for that particular brass too since it will give different velocity than the BR brass but thats pretty much required anyway. I also don't know how important it is to have the small rifle primers so maybe cutting down 308 brass would be fine...
Frank
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