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Old 04-11-2018, 08:00 AM
Pathfinder76 Pathfinder76 is offline
 
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Default Lapua 30-06 brass

I need a favour. If someone has new loaded 30-06 Lapua cases could I have you measure the neck diameter of two or three of those loaded cases? Thanks!
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Old 04-11-2018, 08:36 AM
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Old 04-11-2018, 01:30 PM
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I measured 0.377"
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Old 04-11-2018, 02:02 PM
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Yikes! That’s a big difference. Thanks guys.
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Old 04-11-2018, 02:06 PM
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I measured 0.377"
Are you measuring Diameter or neck length?

Spec Diameter is 0.340
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Old 04-11-2018, 02:08 PM
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I measured 0.377"
Whoops!!! That should be 0.337" Sorry for the confusion
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Old 04-11-2018, 02:09 PM
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Case neck thickness averaged about 0.0155" and loaded round diameter was 0.3375".
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Old 04-11-2018, 02:42 PM
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This is looking better. :-)

Thanks!
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