suggested freebore for 6mm and 7mm

[shooter mcreid]

Hello, I just wanted to see what freebore people are running for the common 6mms and 7mms, specifically interested in the 6mm 105gr hybrid in a 6x47L and the 7mm 180 vlds in a SAUM?
from what i can gather 0.220" seems like a good option for the 180 in the Saum?

[Matt P]

Hi
For the VLD no shorter than 0.220 in the SAUM, my reamer is 0.233, it's a little long for Hybrids but about right for VLD's.
The 6 x 47 is less critical IMO as the neck is quite long, some where around the 0.105 (or even a little shorter the way they chew the throat up) mark should do the trick.
Matt P

[shooter mcreid]

Thanks very much for the quick reply Matt, greatly appreciated.

[KHGS]

Thanks very much for the quick reply Matt, greatly appreciated.

Freebore depends entirely on case neck length. The longer the neck the less critical freebore length will be. I always like my customer to supply a sample of the bullets being used when I am cutting chambers on short neck chamberings, most of my tooling allows me to cut a throat (freebore) length to suit the bullet being used. The shorter the neck length is the less flexible the throat length will be, examples of such are 223, 6mmBRX & 6mm Dasher, there are others of course.
Keith H.

[shooter mcreid]

Thanks Keith, I thought that was the case and that's why I included the two cals I'm interested in getting reamers for.