Deburr-Chamfer, Chamfer-Deburr, Doesn't Matter

With pistol brass I trim, deburr inside and out and then I flare them. With rifle brass I chamfer the inside of the neck and deburr the outside. I don't see the need to use a flaring tool on bottle-neck cases and I don't crimp any of my rifle cases.
 
When you chamfer you only need to do so lightly to help seat bullets, doesn't thin the neck very much at all to be effective. When your deburring just do enough to remove any brass left over from trimming, not so much as to thin the neck. It just takes a little practice to develop a feel for this. This is on rifle brass, on pistol brass, I only trim once on new brass and then only deburr, no chamfer since I flair the case making a chamfer unnecessary. After this they never need trimming.
 
Well OK, I can go along with the above and will try to quit having evil thoughts about those who chamfer. Handgun brass usually doesn't need much attention as pointed out. Other than flaring on a progressive, the only other thing I did one time with handgun brass was to run a batch of .45 cases lightly through the trimmer just for the purpose of squaring up the case mouths. Rifle brass, when flaring is needed, always gets the M die treatment. Let's say that if you have six different 30 caliber rifles, you may be able to get by with just one M die if willing to readjustment it between the various length brass (.308, .30-06, .30 mags, etc). At about $20 each with shipping and NRA roundup, usually no need for more than one. Flaring rifle brass as needed is usually just restricted to using cast bullets.
 
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