Thread: Annealing after sizing?

Originally Posted by zimmer

His article credibility goes out the window with that starting statement methinks.

Found the dissertation here: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://ballisticrecreations.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Ryan-Stevenson-Dissertation.pdf

Don't have time to read all 11,255 words while I am supposed to be working, but from the abstract:

"...The sample sets were designed to study the effects of reloading techniques such as neck turning and cartridge neck annealing. The production of the sample sets required 396 cartridges and 1260 rounds to be fired... The research quantified the hardening of the cartridges over 5 firings and 6 reloading preparation procedures. The firing process was found to have a more significant work hardening effect than that of the reloading procedure... The cartridge neck annealing process was shown to produce variable results. Possible methods of combating the inconsistent annealing results were suggested."

Sounds like a fun study and some interesting bedtime reading.