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It sounds like a die will not fix that.

Al, I think that I will set the cases back .002 and shoot again. Then I will use my CTOL guage and vary that a little and shoot again. Then I will work on speed with the same powder. In the past, I have never gotten big gains by changing powder types, but I have gotten big gains by changing...

I really don't know a lot about the rifle....bought it from a family friend and not sure that he knows either. It is a Sako Riihimaki 222 Rem with a tight neck chamber....says "244 NK" on the barrel. To date I have only loaded for factory rifles so I don't know anything about custom chambers. So...

How do companies that reload used brass make sure that it will work in all rifles?

Doesn't FL sizing take care of the fact that it was fired in a different rifle?

Thanks! I ask because I just bought a "tight neck" 222. I FL sized some cases that were once fired in a different rifle which should make the cases concentric on the outside. I then neck-turned the cases because I had to....the cases also had inconsistent neck thickness. I believe that the case...

If I neck-turn new brass and fire them in a very good chamber, shouldn't the fire-formed brass then be concentric (at least on the outside)?

I read that you want at least .002 clearance between your rifle's neck and the loaded round's neck. .244-.002 gives me .242. A 222 Rem bullet measures .224. Therefore, 2 times the neck thickness should be .242-.224=.018 which will give a neck thickness of .009. My full length sized cases measure...

It is a Sako Riihimaki that was re-barreled. It has "244 NK" stamped on the new barrel. If you measure a factory loaded 222, it will generally not fit in .244".

To be honest, I am only neck turning now because I bought a 222 rem that has a "tight-neck" which necessitates turning the case neck smaller.

Any cases that do not measure "good" neck thickness (not sure what "good" is, but the cases that I have vary about 2 mils around the neck). I just shoot 100 and 200 yards mostly. One gun shoots about 1/3" five shot groups at 200 (204 Ruger) and the other shoots about 1/3" at 100 yards (30-06).

I am assuming that you mean the tight neck is a waste of time. I did hear that the bench rest folks stopped doing it and went to "no-size" chambers. I did not buy the rifle because it had a tight neck...it just came that way and I figured I'd go ahead and try it. If I don't like it, I will have...

Almost all of my dies are one piece standard dies from Redding...generally I am interested in neck turning just to true-up the case and make the most consistent cases that I can. I did just buy a "tight neck" 222 Rem which I understand is a whole different set of issues. My question is really...

Does FL sizing make the outside of you case concentric? If so, this means that the inside of the neck may not be concentric due to thickness differences around the circumference. So, if you neck turn to get rid of these differences, is the outside of your neck now non-concentric such that you...

Thanks.....the price looks good too.

I have pulled up SAAMI specs out of curiosity in the past. They give a range of permissible values for chambers and for ammo I suppose so that they will all work together.

I have pulled up SAAMI specs out of curiosity in the past. They give a range of permissible values for chambers and for ammo I suppose so that they will all work together.

Thanks, I appreciate that.

I'm guessing that it is the minimum SAAMI chamber neck size....and is the rest of the chamber cut minimum? I ask because if I get tired of my tight neck chamber, I will know what to ask for.

What is a no-turn chamber?