Do you resize new brass before reloading?

[Warrigul]

Sure, I'm not knocking neck turning.

Just mentioning that it's not the kind of thing you'll find if your average reloaders' kit.

Yep, I don't bother at all for my .303's or hunting rifles and I wouldn't recommend it as necessary for anyone but a target shooter.

I have two sets of neck turning gear, one set inherited, but statistically it was of no benefit to me. I occaisonally check runout and thickness and since I have been using a collet die runout is negligble. Once the brass is fired in a rifle it is as perfect a match for concentricity that you can get.

I think an ordinary FLS or neck die distorts the necks horribly making turning of some value but a collet die makes turning mostly redundant. If someone is down the bushing die path then they know enough already.

Once again just my humble opinions.

[Chronos]

You just put the case in the shell holder in the power drill and stick it in the turner then do you?

The handle on the shell holder comes out and goes in the cordless drill. A low speed and off you go. A cut with the cutter then a polish with some steel wool a d its done. 100 cases takes over 1 hour but as I said worth doing IMHO if you believe uniform neck tension is important.

Chronos

[Norton]

100 cases takes over 1 hour but as I said worth doing IMHO if you believe uniform neck tension is important.

Not a truly thorough test, but some a good show for it here from photos from Baldrick314.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=820

Photos near the bottom of the topic.

[creet]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

I've been slack with it in the past and just seated the bullet to stretch out the necks of wonky new brass.

I'll resize them in future before loading.