[highlight=yellow]"338lapua wrote: ↑July 18th, 2018, 12:32 am
I have been involved with commercial loading and reloading for 20 years, I have never annealed any cases that were already formed, never. Just another way for someone to separate shooters from their money. Reforming a case you need to anneal, resize to original size, clean, anneal, resize to new dimensions, trim , clean, anneal. Not really any other need other than anal retentiveness unless reforming.
When we make new brass it is annealed multiple times, every draw is a wash, dry and anneal in a oven, induction annealing is the very last step. Brass is exposed to tons of pressure when we draw it, if you are not making new cases it is not needed.
Firing a case and resizing is not enough "working" of the brass to stress it to the point of needing stress relief. You guys are all being sold a bill of goods.
Our annealing processes are exact every time, the oven is a constant temp and it takes exactly the same time to travel through the oven every time. The induction annealing machine has a variable of +/- 2 degrees. Proper temperature is critical. You guys are really just wasting time and money."
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I have no actual educated real life facts about annealing,... NONE!
But, what I do have, as facts, is,... I have been reloading the SAME 30-06sprg, 308win, 44mag, 38spl, 223rem, marlin444, 45colt, 45acp, brass cases FOR MANY YEARS without any signs of brittleness/failure,.. other than for less than a dozen Hornady 444 cases that started splitting at the mouth. Which could be caused by a few failures on Hornady's part!
One point I should relay, is, I am not your normal shooter,... mostly, I only shoot a couple hundred, at MAX, of each caliber per year, with 223rem and 45 acp being the exception,... which may have influence on my case longevity.
Sooo, I have to go along with what 338Lapua has posted,... until I learn differently!
