What is causing this buildup on the case neck?

TexasHaag

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This is 6.5cm that was loaded with 42gr of Staball 6.5 under a 153 A-tip .040 of the lands. What is causing this buildup. It has happened on other calibers as well using different brands of brass. I have always done a full-length size on all cases. Anything that shoots from a magazine gets a very light crimp.
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Buildup ? You mean the normal amount of carbon blow by which 90% of cases show and suffer from ?

The non snarky version is:
There is clearance between the neck and the chamber. When the powder does its explodey thing and pushes the bullet out, there is a minimal amount of blow-by around the neck before the explodey does full pressure and "fire forms" the case into the chamber completely. And when it does that, it presses the brass to the chamber wall, it stamps the carbon onto the brass neck, which you are seeing. "Ink blot" sort of effect.

Over sized brass (if you resize too much, like 8thou shoulder bump) will result in the carbon moving around the neck and onto the shoulder before the full explodey, resulting in carbon all the way down the shoulder and even potentially a mm or 2 (like 40thou) onto thr body. Rare, but ive seen it.
 
This is 6.5cm that was loaded with 42gr of Staball 6.5 under a 153 A-tip .040 of the lands. What is causing this buildup. It has happened on other calibers as well using different brands of brass. I have always done a full-length size on all cases. Anything that shoots from a magazine gets a very light crimp. View attachment 8463342
That's totally normal from blowby just before the neck expands to seal the case allowing pressure to build and push the bullet through the bore.
 
I have seen that of course. I have also seen rifle/case combinations that did not do it. The neck on your case has the appearance that it has possibly been turned. The tighter the neck clearance the less of the carbon you will see. If it bothers you you might fry some thicker necked brass or a tighter chamber neck reamer.
 
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Or do like 99.999% of us do and recognize that it's not an issue.

Even tight necked chambers with neck turned brass get a sine wave of carbon around the circumference of the neck. In fact, I'd be concerned if it wasn't visible. Even though, it's not as pronounced, it's still there.

Crimping the case mouth exacerbates the amount of carbon that collects on the neck.