Thread: Do you need a fancy machine to anneal?

Originally Posted by Woody

I put my resized cases into a 3 jaw lathe chuck turning at about 300rpm. I use a butane torch, same as you and hold until a very slight dull red colour appears on neck- shoulder. I then remove case from chuck holding with pliers and place into a steel container, but no water. Water cooling is not necessary except for production speed.
I have found that MV drops about 30-40 fps in newly annealed case necks. I figure this might be due to the softer brass exerting somewhat less neck tension, but I am not totally sure about this. (Cal 7*61 with MV around 2850+fps using 160 SMK.) Accuracy is maintained compared to non annealed brass. (All NORMA brass)

Interesting. I do not lose any velocity unless I shoot on a cold clean barrel. POI is the same but on a cold fouled barrel I am around 10 fps off my average which is the main goal for me.

I only drop mine in water because quenching brass does not hurt it and I picked a few up to soon after annealing and got a few burnt digits.😆



Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk