Neck Turning

Dan I have always appreciated the time & explanation that you have done with your videos!!! Once again thank you keep them coming.

Loafer

I missed this before, but awesome idea with the drill. I'm a little slow sometimes. How far do you actually cut in the shoulder? I have the k&m kit but have never used it, as an old timer told me I could do more harm when uniforming the neck thickness than just shooting as is. I have always been interested, just never done it.

Finally got time to watch the video.  Good one, very useful, very clear! 

When I was young I got a box of .308 LC brass (67 vintage stuff....well it wasn't so vintage then )  I had just bought a little Remington 600 .243 Mohawk carbine for $110 dollars. (very poor student at the time) and I had read in "Handloader" how you could neck the .308 brass down to .243.  I tried a few and even bought a new outside neck turner for my Forster Trimmer!

Well, that one is not worth the setup issues unless you have 2 trimmers so you can leave it be with the outside neck trimmer kit on it.  What you are using is infinitely more useful. 

I decided not to neck down the LC, though,.....brass that says 7.62 and isn't...was annoying.  A wildcat or a caliber where brass is less available is a much better project for outside neck turning!

BTW, all I did to neck it down (following "Handloaders" instructions), was first sizing in a .308 sizer, then resizing in a .243 sizer.  It did work, and it did have a thick neck.  I noticed that even with the thick neck, I was able to chamber the loaded round fine in my rifle. Must have been on the tight side, but it shot and ejected.  I was pretty wet behind the ears.....not sure how dangerous that was.  I still have a souvenir round left, I will have to measure with calipers and see how tight it really is.  You got me curious.

Well, Dan, I may need to do a little neck trimming after all.   In my last thread I mentioned that I had "bought" a sportsterized Mauser chambered in .243.  Well I was wrong.  It came with 20 reloads with case head markings that said, ".243 Winchester."  So I assumed right?

So when I tried to chamber a new factory .243, it would not go in not even close..........turns out the barrel (and the accompanying reloads) are for .223.

Interesting.....I wasn't aware of a .22-08....or as I am corrected..... .22-243.

Midway has RCBS dies in stock:  www.midwayusa.com/product/865105/rcbs-2-die-set-22-243-winchester

Slightly pricey....had to pick up my jaw off the floor.......taking donations......

Greg,
I built a .22-243 many years ago. I looked around this morning and found the chamber reamer I had custom made but have not found the dies. I may have let them go when I sold the rifle in fact I'm sure I did. Best I remember is that I only knocked the high spots off the outside of the neck before I necked them down and I did end up having to ream the inside. I must have sold the reamer with the rifle as well as it isn't anywhere to be found.
I used that rifle allot on P-dogs in Western Okla. It was a good 300 to 600 yard P-dog exterminator. I don't remember the load but the 55gr pill in the 1:14 twist barrel did a nice job. I also remember why I sold the rifle. I acquired a Remington 700 Bull barrel chambered for 22-250. With commercially available brass for the 22-250 the 22-243 became little more than a safe queen.