due to age of 62 have decided to quite hunting and take up f-class.bought a savage #12 f-class rifle un 6.5x284 and lapua brass. would i gain enough accuracy with this combo to justify neck turning brass?

Swampshooter,
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Originally posted by swampshooter:
Due to age of 62 have decided to quite hunting and take up f-class. Bought a Savage #12 f-class rifle un 6.5x284 and Lapua brass. Would I gain enough accuracy with this combo to justify neck turning brass?

Neck turning fits your brass to a custom, tight-fit chamber. The process more precisely centers the bullet with the bore. For a factory chamber, using premium brass is sufficient. Turning, while truing the brass and perhaps making neck tension more uniform, also further misaligns the bullet in the chamber.
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Like most other things in shooting and reloading, it depends...

It is a negative that you are loading (turning) for a factory chamber. They are mostly oversized, and that means you'll work your turned brass more when you size it. In general, most people are sceptical about turning for factory chambers.

On the positive side, if you take just a skim cut to ensure minimal case wall variation in the neck area, you probably have an advantage in terms of consistent neck tension. But you really have to minimize your cut to .001-.002", just to clean up the neck as opposed to reducing neck wall thickness.

In the end, the only way you can tell is to try it out. As mentioned above, Lapua brass is pretty good, and if you sort for neck wall consistency, you might get good results without the hassle of turning.

- mike