Well OldPaint...you are going to find a few different techniques, some will say this, some will say that,....it all depends on were you're at... :dry:
but I will aid you if I can...something to check out...Make some pop corn...and enjoy
Get some decent yet cheap facotry ammo and shoot a few rounds through your rifle. Save the brass and get an RCBS MIC Case Checker thingy. This will allow you to see what you chamber looks like. Match shooters call this fire forming your brass. If you do this you will know where your chamber is and you resize your brass with our OVER resizing, or OVER working it and get many more loads out of it.
Lube your brass, lightly and neck size it to the specs you determined from the step above.
I have reloaded for bolt guns. I always neck sized. I used my friends equipment and they always preped the brass. They have never reloaded AR ammo. I am a hunter and have a wild game ranch, so I am basically looking for ammo to hunt. I have lots of hogs ANC like the ear shot so I don't have to track them. All my bolt action rifles can do it. I have a 6.8 AR too, but use factory ammo. It shoots great groups though. It I'd cheaper for now to buy the 6.8 loaded ammo from SSA then reload. I will reload the 6.8 this year with the new 95 TTSX for my daughter. That is why I got into ARs to begin with. The 6 point stock allows my daughter to shoot a larger grain bullet without me having to put a youth stock on one of my other guns. Her .223 just does not leave enough of a blood trail or do enough damage.
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