Quote Originally Posted by m12lrs View Post
No argument here. What i said was both methods work and there would be strong opinions about which one to use.

Personally i buy lapua creedmoor brass and avoid all the drama
Like every "journey" there are often different routes and they all get you where you want to go.

A couple notes: To the original question "What neck turning tool" my personal preference is the Sinclair NT-4000. Has a nice size for my fat hands, a carbide cutter standard, and the Depth of Cut control is phenomenal. The mandrel is held in an eccentric holder and depth of cut changes as little as .0002" are as easy as "Click". I've used others that work well but this cutter just stands out over the others in my mind because of this simple feature.

As for just buying Lapua Brass, first off I wanted some small primer 6.5 creedmoor brass before the Lapua brass became available. I just reformed Lapua .308 Palma and got what I wanted. Second, when Lapua finally delivered their brass and put a $120 price tag on it, suddenly "all the drama" turned into a $46 savings to me. I purchased my .308 Palma brass for $74 per box and the lowest I could find the Lapua brass for was $120. Using "Old Math" ( and a cheap Chinese made calculator) made the answer simple. I just used a 6.5 Creedmoor Body Die (Redding) for the first step, a Sinclair Expander mandrel die with the O/S mandrel to prep the neck for turning, and then trimed and turned. Not a ton of drama but with this method I ended up with 3 boxes of Lapua Creedmoor brass for the price of two "ready made" from Lapua with an extra $18 left over for lunch money.

Time wise, I just do the process by performing each step on the full batch. First form all, then expand all, trim all, then turn. Takes a while but I just do it as a time filler. Being retired does have it's perks.