Which one is the best to use? And is it worth it for accuracy on a hunting long range gun? I use Nosler brass for my 7mm rem mag and for my 7mm Dakota I use Norma brass. I have never turned a neck but if will increase my accuracy I will by one, so I need some opinions guys. I like to get as much accuracy out of my guns as I can squeeze.
Thanks
Elmer

this neck turner from Hornady:

is among the best a going....or at least the one I had was!!! It's extremely well designed and I highly recommend it.

That said, neck turning isn't going to help much unless your gun already shoots 1/2" groups and then it can help a bit!

Nosler Custom and Norma brass are excellent and worth the cost in my opinion, especially on a longer range capable rifle. Very uniform.

Neck turning is predominately for a "tight" neck chamber (tighter than factory specs) rifle, mostly custom bench rest chambers. Neck turning can cause problems (not expanding enough to seal the chamber) in a factory rifle, if more metal than just barely "cleaning" the neck just a few thousanths percent of the neck thickness is removed.

I would recommend against you neck turning for your application.

My neck turning equipment is Sinclair btw.

I use the Wilson inside neck reamer. It is for use on fired brass.

The only reason I ever use it is when brass flow creates a "donught" at the base on the neck so that a new bullet gets stuck when dropped in the neck of a fired case.

Does anyone have experience with the Lyman case trimmer & outside neck turning attachment? I have mine but am not sure how to use it.

I purchased one of these and have had no complaints I believe Sinclair sells them as do others .

http://www.forsterproducts.com...og.asp?prodid=623128

http://www.forsterproducts.com...og.asp?prodid=623680

I do quite a few calibers so this design suited my purposes .

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Originally posted by Buliwyf:
My neck turning equipment is Sinclair btw.

+1 to Sinclair!!

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Does anyone have experience with the Lyman case trimmer & outside neck turning attachment? I have mine but am not sure how to use it.

Vetaikaran, I do. It works okay but not BR grade (few are). I believe it's as good aa it need be for skim cutting cases for factory sporters.

It's somewhat difficult to precisely adjust, partly because the cutter (a hardened screw tip) is hard to see inside the cutter body.

Not much to using it; install a pilot, lock in a case, slide the cutter over it and turn the cutter screw in until it make a light cut. Adjust the shaft stop collers to prevent cutting into the shoulder and use hand feed OR hold onto the larger stop collar to control the feed. I did it mostly be hand but the screw threads on the collar is more consistant I suppose.

Make tiny depth-of-cut adjustments until you get the thickness or amount of neck circumference thinned that you want.

I simply skim-cut about 70-80% of the neck surfaces to help with concentricity. Never found any accuracy advantage aiming at a specific thickness or completely turning necks for a factory chamber that is already to sloppy for a tight fit!

Avoid cutting more than maybe 5 thou (or less) per pass and you will find things much eaaier. And use case lube inside the necks. Ideally, the pilots will be a snug, not tight, fit in the necks.

NO seater can correct for poor necks. Use a Lee Collet Neck Sizer on your lightly turned cases and you can have some quite good, straight necks.

The hand held Forster neck turner (HOT-100) is a very good, inexpensive tool for those wanting that type of tool. It has a carbide cutter with an angled corner to reduce the likelyhood of damaging the shoulder. And it has a "micrometer" depth of cut adjuster knob. Don't care a lot for the plastic case holder device but it's plenty strong and works well enough so...why complain.

Used to neck turn and never really seen any worthwhile improvements. Personally I think it is wasted time if you use quality brass such as Lapua.
If you search the benchrest and 6mm BR forums you can find some interesting reading. Seems most people these days are building rifles without tight necks and either not neck turning or at best, just cleaning up the necks.
The guys on these forums will tell you what works best if you insist on turning.

I use the same one that vapodog has pictured. After
the initial fireforming of virgin brass, I then
take off only the "high side" of the neck. Seems to
help accuracy, but that may just be me.