Thread: Resizing. 308 to .243, help?? Or a dumb idea?

A quick update on this for anyone who may be interested.

After sizing the brass down to .243, I took measurements of fired brass, sized brass and the resized .308 brass. Necks too thick, no surprise there.

No neck turner. And I'm still dutch. So I made a 6mm (slightly over) center on the lathe, made a tool to cut neck and to stop at the shoulder, stuck shell holder in the other end and 4 hours later ready to turn necks.

Loaded with my normal load and took it out for a blast. Wind was super variable. Didn't bother shooting at 200m as a mob of turkeys appeared at 385m, fair game eh? Yup, first shot was good elevation (thanks free strelok) but a "Turkey width to the right", credit goes to the spotter. 4 down with 6 shots.

Moved on to steel at 600m, good hits, but holding 2 - 8 minutes with the wind, it is my first time target shooting over 200m so probably not the best setup and discipline.

Moral of the story, if you are going to do something questionable, take measurements and write things down, read what the tolerances are and obey. All good fun and a great waste of time after I bought a swag of new brass, would do it again in a heartbeat.