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Case neck wall thickness ?

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15 June 2025, 04:32
yumastepside
Case neck wall thickness ?
After shortening or necking down a case to make a " whatever " wildcat, what should be the wall thickness of the neck brass to achieved sufficient pressure on the projectile ?

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17 June 2025, 05:55
thecanadian
It depends on you reamer. You obviously dont want to go too thin but on my last wildcat I had the case neck thickness of .016


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18 June 2025, 02:24
jeffeosso
In big bores, I have seen down to 0.012 and up to 0.019 for smaller cases. When fiddling with a new design, I use 0.014 as a rule of thumb


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