Trimmed my cases TOO short???

[CJW]

Boys,
I just trimmed 100 Laupa cases 5/1000 too short.

What now, shoot them, throw them away....etc.....

Thanks,
Chuck

[Lemonaid]

Yep, totally ruined. Send them to me and I will waive the disposal fee!

Just shoot and reload them until they grow back in spec. (about 5 times?)

As an side note, what length did you trim to? Different loading sites list different min/max/trim to/ case lengths

[kmon]

Load them up and shoot them, they will grow

[BobinNC]

A whole .005 too short, Oh the horror .....Just load em up and shoot em.

[Popeye212]

5 point penalty on his Grrrrr Card...

[HuntTXhogs]

+5 pts on his man card for not test trimming with Hornady of Federal brass before the Lapua AND doing all 100 cases before QC’ing !

[Popeye212]

+5 pts on his man card for not test trimming with Hornady of Federal brass before the Lapua AND doing all 100 cases before QC’ing !

Well, the good news he's got 100 all uniform length how do we score that one???

[CJW]

You guys are so bad!

Hornady book. Max. 1.520
Trim to. 1.510
I cut to. 1.505

Thanks for your help

[Popeye212]

Your fine I have had new brass go from 1.510 to 1.505 in fact I have bunch at 1.505...glhf

[Klem]

CJ,

As long as the neck still holds a bullet as tightly as you want then it is a non-issue.

The popular convention is that there should be at least as much neck gripping the shank as the diameter of the bullet. At 1.505", and depending on your cartridge OAL you will have approx 7mm of neck gripping the bullet...not a problem (Ref, Quickload).

[CJW]

Thanks guys.