Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles 280 brass necked to 6.5-06 Ackley......?

Print Thread

Hop To

280 brass necked to 6.5-06 Ackley......? #11731446 01/12/17
Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 14,472 Northern Arizona S SU35 OP Campfire Outfitter
OP SU35 Campfire Outfitter S Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 14,472 Northern Arizona	Could 280 brass be used to neck down to fire form in a 6.5-06 Ackley? Would it be the best brass or 270 brass? Not interested in necking up 25-06.

GB1

Re: 280 brass necked to 6.5-06 Ackley......? SU35 #11731948 01/12/17
Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 13 Barstooler New Member
Barstooler New Member Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 13	Either 280 or 270 brass could be necked down to fireform into a 6.5-06 Ackley. Just adjust the die to the point where you get a "crush fit" when chambering the round which will eliminate any headspace issues you might have with your chamber to prevent brass stretch above the base/web. You will have to trim the brass. You can fireform using bullets or COW. Barstooler

Re: 280 brass necked to 6.5-06 Ackley......? Barstooler #11732010 01/12/17
Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 14,472 Northern Arizona S SU35 OP Campfire Outfitter
OP SU35 Campfire Outfitter S Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 14,472 Northern Arizona	Hey Barstooler, thanks! was what I was thinking but wanted to confirm.

Moderated by RickBin

Link Copied to Clipboard

AX24

510 members (219 Wasp, 257 roberts, 219DW, 2500HD, 1badf350, 1936M71, 60 invisible), 2,426 guests, and 1,257 robots.

Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod

May
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

Forum Statistics

Forums81

Topics1,192,441

Posts18,489,489

Members73,970

Most Online11,491
Jul 7th, 2023

Responsive Width:

PHP: 7.3.33 Page Time: 0.153s Queries: 20 (0.003s) Memory: 0.7973 MB (Peak: 0.8225 MB) Data Comp: Zlib Server Time: 2024-05-04 20:12:57 UTC
Valid HTML 5 and Valid CSS