Thread: .22TCM Micro Varmint rifle build

Originally Posted by yerimaginaryM8

Very Nice! hope it goes well for you. Are you planning to neck turn the brass you form out of 223? Some .223 WSSM brass apparently had very thick neck walls and some people experienced problems with it cracking. Any problems that arise potentially may vanish if you switch to brass formed from Lapua or Norma. I have a wildcat based on a shortened 7 saum that gave me grief with rem brass but issues disappeared once I switched to Norma.

Nah wont be neck turning, the reamer is designed to cut the neck area larger than a std .223rem neck to allow for the thicker brass. Neck turning would mean it would work the brass more as it would expand more on firing.
I have read that they benefit from annealing every load or second loading to prevent splitting. As you say, if I do have issues I'll make some from Lapua brass.