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Sorry to poach the thread, can somebody elaborate on the outside neck turning part.
The only trouble I ever had with the reloading I have done is damaged necks, but it was obvious. I throw away brass after 5 reloads, just because I dont have the skill or tooling to accuratly measure case head dia and so on. I also bumped my shoulders a bit because I was always loading hunting more than target loads.
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Outside neck turning is general done to provide a uniform neck thickness,usually for applications such as target shooting where the absolute best accuracy is desired. As to how I decide that a case is past it's useful life, I use a case until either I see obvious damage to some cases in that batch, such as cracked necks, or until the primer pockets start to slacken off. Loose primer pockets are quite easily felt if you use a hand primer, so you don't really need any special tooling or special measuring skills to detect them.