ORIGINAL: vangunsmith
That mlight be good if a person only used one type bullet all the time.the reason at times was not to have the throat cut on the reamer was that some people hogged off to much at one time when chambering and broke the reamers pilot off. Thats why they came out with other than solid pilots. One has another problem cutting the throats ,and have them centered after already cutting the chambers. vangunsmith
Van - your post doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe that's my fault . . . . but I have chambered quite a few rifles over the past 30 years. I currently own 67 chamber reamers - all have been used a least a couple of times - some have chambered over 100 rifles. The pilot, whether floating or solid, guides the reamer into the bore of the barrel. The floating pilot reamer holder gives the reamer the ability to track right down the center of the bore. And the barrel shank is centered, trued, and spinning perfectly on center when all this occurs. The chamber reamer is going right down the center of the bore, whether it is cutting a throat or not. And if you cut the throat a second step, the piloted throating reamer is going right down the center as well. This would be hard to screw up, unless you have been drinking! With all due respect, what am I missing here . . . .