re: Reloaders, help!

I'm not an expert at all lol, but have been learning and doing lots of research myself. I reload 260 for my Tikka T3. I full length sized for my first loads, then neck sized after fire forming.

As I understand it, neck sizing is desireable in that it works the brass less, leading to longer brass life. I guess the con to neck sizing is reliability. Leaving the brass fire formed gives very little to no clearance for debris, dirt, etc.

I've read that for range/competition shooting neck sizing, hunting FL sizing. Also, seems like more people neck size for bolt guns, where as I've seen more people FL size for semi auto mag fed rifles.

I'm sure someone else with more knowledge and experience will chime in soon, but that's what I got lol.