Thread: annealing help please

Originally Posted by Dama dama

Yeah kinda, not really.
In all honesty, pretty confused by the whole thing really. Surely I can get 5 or 6 reloads out of a peice of brass with out annealing -especially if I need a $1000 machine to do it!

Can one achieve, all be it labour intensively, the same out come with a gas touch from Mitre 10?

It seems you are talking about annealing in order to avoid overworking your brass, to get more reloads per case. Here the main considerations are to heat sufficiently to anneal the neck/shoulder, but not overdoing it and ending up annealing (softening, weakening) the cartridge base.

Most on this thread who invest in annealing machines speak of annealing with utmost CONSISTENCY in order to minimise neck tension variability, thus achieving greater accuracy.

The M10 gas torch is just fine for the first application, and you can work on doing it the same way for each case. The M10 gas torch is probably marginal for the second application.

The hint above about not going for max loads but for accuracy is spot on. Allows longer case life and more fun shooting. And get a bipod.