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Re: 338 lapua trim to length
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: afv308</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can anyone give me the trim to length and max length for 338 lapua. Just bought one, have everything to reload but I don't have any books with the data on case length. </div></div>
2.714" (69.00mm) trim to, 2.724" max case length
Chris
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: afv308</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can anyone give me the trim to length and max length for 338 lapua. Just bought one, have everything to reload but I don't have any books with the data on case length. </div></div>
2.714" (69.00mm) trim to, 2.724" max case length
Chris
Re: 338 lapua trim to length
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Flintlock Shooter</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hey Chris, just curious what length you actually trim yours to?? </div></div>
I'm not one of these guys who is a hardcore trimmer and I'll often times go over the 'trim to length.' Every throat is different and in the case of my Savage 308, I can easily let things grow to 2.020", but I've verified that number through various methods.
I shot my 338LM yesterday and now have 78 cases to process once again, with a box of 20 still loaded. One box of 20 that I shot yesterday was tight chambering and extracting, so I'm going to have to FL size them all (I mostly neck size my 338LM brass,) trim them and anneal them, getting back to the starting line.
I've got now, anywhere between 10-13 cycles on the Norma and Lapua stuff. I started with 20 Norma back in '06 and split a neck and then got a Lapua case stuck my kinetic puller and had to wrench it out, so I'm at 19/79, which isn't bad after seven years!
Chris
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Flintlock Shooter</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hey Chris, just curious what length you actually trim yours to?? </div></div>
I'm not one of these guys who is a hardcore trimmer and I'll often times go over the 'trim to length.' Every throat is different and in the case of my Savage 308, I can easily let things grow to 2.020", but I've verified that number through various methods.
I shot my 338LM yesterday and now have 78 cases to process once again, with a box of 20 still loaded. One box of 20 that I shot yesterday was tight chambering and extracting, so I'm going to have to FL size them all (I mostly neck size my 338LM brass,) trim them and anneal them, getting back to the starting line.
I've got now, anywhere between 10-13 cycles on the Norma and Lapua stuff. I started with 20 Norma back in '06 and split a neck and then got a Lapua case stuck my kinetic puller and had to wrench it out, so I'm at 19/79, which isn't bad after seven years!
Chris
