Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Neck donuts

I agree it's better to avoid the donut in the first place.

Well it worked but in the end I went with .0015 after a bit of experimentation. I even did the tight neck thing where it wasn't necessary to size the cases just prime and seat a bullet. All just to play around and find out.

What kind of match rifle was this?

A custom on a Remington 700. Had many barrels on it then sold it, bought it back and am presently thinking about putting a 30BR barrel on it for the score matches at a local club. My favorite of all time barrel was a 6x47 Lapua. It is now a 22BR and I am not planning on setting up for that round.

I have been following this discussion.

I use the RCBS Trim Pro 2 manual case trimmer. I have the neck turning tool for it which can be adjusted to turn 22 to 50 caliber brass. The pilot for each caliber includes a cutter on the end.

Is this pilot/cutter sufficient to remove internal donuts?

I usually set the turning tool to just touch the neck on the outside, to take off any high spots.

I size 7x57 and 6.5x57 to 6mm Rem. 243 to 260 Rem, 308 to 260 or to 7mm-08, 284 Win to 6x284, and finally 243 to 22-243AI.

just an interesting note: In the case of the 6.5 x57 to 6mm earlier this year, I found my Redding neck sizer would not sufficiently size brass to fit the chamber of my rifle. I had to purchase an additional FL sizer. The FL sizer was not easily available a few years ago when originally shopping for 6mm dies.

Yep it will take care of the donut.

Using a Lee collet die and turning the excess off as it grows from the shoulder - neck area.

The collet puts the donut on the outside, where it is easily turned off.

Thank you for the confirmation.

It will work but probably the worst case scenario Ican think of

Since you use one expand the answer.

Please expound.