[Eppie]

Hi Flea21,
I feel your frustration. Sometimes it is hard to tell which advice to take and which to ignore. If you're feeling frustrated don't persist you could make a mistake. Take a break and do something else until that feeling passes. It takes a week for me to refocus sometimes.

Here’s an easy way to tell if your pressure problem is due in part/solely to the brass neck or in conjunction with something else. Take your calipers and measure in four spot around the neck. If they are consistently above .16 than your necks are too thick and could at minimum contribute to overpressure and may actually be the main culprit.

As I had mentioned earlier, my experience is that once fired brass worked pretty good, twice fired brass started sticking and getting less accurate because the necks were getting thicker giving me problems with accuracy and pressure. Once I turned the necks the problem went away.

As I stated earlier, I’m using Federal brass, some have said that your brass starts out thicker than Federal brass.