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Thread: Annealing... anyone do it?
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29 October 2016, 11:51 #16
There was a decent article around that showed for bolt guns, where you can minimally resize cases, you can go from 8-10 reloadings to 20+ with annealing. I'll have to dig it up.
Will - Owner of Arisaka LLC - http://www.arisakadefense.com
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29 October 2016, 12:05 #17
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30 October 2016, 08:04 #18
If I was loading expensive Nosler or Lapua brass, especially in an expensive caliber, I would anneal. Prolonging the life of that brass would be important.
Right now, with 5.56, I'm at 7-8 loadings with my "plinking" brass (LC and PSD) with no issues yet. Haven't gotten to the point where it's worth the expense, even with 308 brass. But then again I don't shoot things like Creedmore, 260, etc, or else I would drop the cash on an annealer. For $3-500, I could buy quite a few thousand pieces of 5.56
The only brass related issues I've had are two case separations and it was with relatively new brass that I think had an internal defect