Well, now that my dies have finally come in, I decided to experiment around with forming some .300 AAC brass from .223 / 5.56. I had a piece of brass with a bent neck, so I started with it and just my Wilson case trimmer to see how long it would take and to get the first piece of brass to the right length to use it as a pattern for subsequent pieces.
It took awhile and would have definitely been quicker if I had the mounting stand instead of just having it loosely sitting on the edge of the table, but it did work. When I got it to the specified length, I then ran it through the dies and it did not have a problem (even though I forgot to lube the case). I then ran it through the case trimmer again to trim down any length it had gained by resizing.
Since that looked good, I decided to try a couple of options to see how well they might do to cut reduce the amount of trimming was necessary (i.e. rough cuts). First attempt was with a piece of 5.56 crimped blank brass that I had picked up from an Army firing range a year or so ago. I used a bench grinder to trim the crimped portion off and noticed rather quickly that it got rather warm. I stopped after just the crimped mouth was ground off, but it was definitely warm enough that I didn't want to continue holding it without gloves.
I then broke out my wet tile saw to see how it worked on brass. I just fed the brass though by hand along the shoulder line and it worked out pretty good. It wasn't perfectly perpendicular since I was just freehanding it, but it did work and considering how easy it went through, I doubt that it damaged the blade. The next cartridge that I tried also worked out easily, but upon further examination, it turned out that it was steel instead of brass.
I don't know if this is better than the Harbor Freight 2" chop saw, but it seems to work well and I didn't end up with yet another single use tool in my shop.