My 6ppc Adventure...Part Two

[cyanchycki]

Actually dan does have the 64.5 grain.  I believe it is on the 790 jacket.

It may be worth a try................

[DSIMON]

Thanks Rick and Calvin for the advice on the shorter bullets.
I'll look into that.
Does Dan have a contact number or email?
In a trying sort of way I am thrust into a lot of rifle education.
Bullet length, different ogives,J4 jackets,pressure rings,etc. etc. etc.
It's all new to me.
It's all good.
I've never learned anything the easy way..lol
Derrick

[cyanchycki]

Derek e-mail your way...

[John VM]

 I had this issue with my gun when I first had a barrel done by Joe. The reamer is sort of a mix of Clayton Martin and Joe Kroetsch's idea of all the best features of a 6ppc reamer. The short throat was to get as much barrel life as possible without setting a barrel back and so that you could use the newer double ojive bullets that Bart and Bruno were starting to make at the time. At the time I was neck sizing with a Wilson inline and when you seated a 7 or 8 ojive bullet it would pop past the sized part of the neck and the bullet would rest on the powder. The way I fixed it was to have the die shortened 60 thou or more and the chamber reamed the same amount deeper so that in the end the die will size down a little farther on the neck and the problem stopped. Everything was working good after that.

[cyanchycki]

John you hit the nail on the head with the issue Derek is having.

That IS the ISSUE.......  Well the problem is sort of solved......

Calvin

[DSIMON]

Well Calvin..we got the answer.
I'm laughing..but just because,it proves I did not totally lose my mind
thinking that I was the the only man on the planet who couldn,t figure out why he couldn,t seat a bullet properly..
Thanks John for taking the time to set me straight on this.
There's a new one....a double ogive bullet...Jesus.
Yes,with the Wilson neck sizer you only can size half the neck.
It took me a few pulled bullets till I caught on.
I borrowed a friends Redding competition neck sizing die and that sized the whole neck.
The bullet still kept popping down,but I didn,t realize it was the powder it was bottoming out on.
I thought that maybe it was a doughnut.
I just received a Harrells die and it sizes more of the neck than the Wilson.
At the moment,I'm going to shoot this rifle without any further work on it.
I'll report back with my 6ppc Adventure..Part 3
Derrick