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Definitely a candidate for turning, they may also be tapered or are crushing your bullet. Your math does not add up. .016+.016+.308=.340
Depending on how many you have, how committed you are to keeping them and if you are likely to do more.
What I would do because it is cheap and easy, is to sacrifice a bullet and use it as an expander. Seat it and pull it in a few cases and see if then they will fit on the pilot and turn them.
I've thrown some more money at the problem. One - I have a new ball micrometer on order...that should provide greater accuracy at reading neck thickness, and is something I've had on my wish list for a while. Two - I've ordered the K&M Expanding Mandrels, which should work to allow me to open the neck consistently prior to turning...very surprised that Hornady doesn't make such a tool.
Three - I purchased propane bottles and torches to enable my newly purchased Annealing-Rite #3 to function. This will be necessary even for the .223 Rem I've converted. Four - this is a stretch, but I've ordered a couple of pin gauges (0.306" and 0.307"), fairly inexpensive alternative to the expanding mandrel, and gives me a couple of options if I still have trouble getting the cases onto the Hornady Neck Turning Mandrel.
Lastly, your "sacrifice a bullet" makes the most sense, and likely would've saved a fair chunk of change, had I been smart enough to think of it. I did sacrifice a bullet to test the fit of a converted 5.56 round in my chamber. Unfortunately, these events have all occurred at varying dates in the process. The failure to chamber the thick-neck brass lead to the early purchase of the Hornady Neck Turner. I won't go into the entire saga again. Let's just say my wife deserves special honor for putting up with me over the past 3-4 weeks. Everyone that reads this saga will have already thought..."What a maroon (channeling Bugs Bunny)! He could've purchased 3,000 rounds of fully processed 5.56 cases from rockeybrass.com for what he's thrown into salvaging 75 MEN 15 cases."
At this point, I'll never find enough 5.56 thick neck brass to have made this all worthwhile...but I now have sunk costs, so let's just move on. Hindsight....