Originally posted by DanielM
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With new brass I neck size to square up the neck, trim to length and chamfer, other than for good quality stuff which already comes properly prepared (RWS for example - fearsomely expensive but great stuff). I've never turned necks.
With cleaning your primer pockets, try this experiment: make up a batch of reloads in clean brass, then give them a few loading cycles without cleaning, testing accuracy and velocity SD as you go (without changing any other variables). What I found when I did this is that the amount of residue didn't increase, and performance was entirely unaffected. I have batches of brass which went literally dozens of reloading cycles without ever having primer pockets cleaned, and haven't bothered to clean a primer pocket for years. It is a step which adds no value.
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