Originally Posted by Docbill
On last barrel I had chambered with my reamer, the smith cut the throat sepretaley at about COL 3.5 to allow for errosion and used a 1.5 deg. angle rather the more common 3 deg. for the funnel into the leade.

Thats one way to do it.
I always have the smith use the 1 inch that they typically cut off the end of a barrel to make a barrel stub.
And I always like to have my neck and free bore on the reamer itself.
The stub can be used as a case gage to check how much your sizing the cases with your full length die.
And the freebore on the reamer will alow you to come up with a seating depth,usuing the stub, without ever sticking a shell in the gun.

dave

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