Comments on: Neck-Turning Tip: Match Your Cutter Angle to the Shoulder https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2007/10/neck-turning-tip-match-your-cutter-angle-to-the-shoulder/ from AccurateShooter.com Fri, 22 May 2026 11:16:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: Al Nyhus https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2007/10/neck-turning-tip-match-your-cutter-angle-to-the-shoulder/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:58:46 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/neck-turning-tip-match-your-cutter-angle-to-the-shoulder/#comment-438 Another good way to approach this is to push the shoulders back .020-.025 on the unfired cases you’re going to neck turn. Then, just neck turn with whatever cutter your tool has..no need to be concerned about matching the shoulder angle perfectly…just turn back to the new neck/shoulder junction.

Then, to fireform the cases, seat the bullet firmly in the lands and use a good amount of neck tension. When you fire the case, the shoulder will blow foward and the neck/shoulder junction will be perfectly ‘blended’ as the brass takes the shape of the chambers neck/shoulder area.

To set the shoulders back, I simply use a shellholder faced off .020-.025. If you don’t have a lathe, you can do this on a bench grinder by using the side of the grinding wheel. It’s not imperitive that it be perfectly flat..just reasonably so…since you’re only going to use it to set the shoulders back.

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