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After reading this whole string, a few things stand out: 1) The manufacturers anneal. Brass requires it under many conditions. If they need to do it, it may help you too. 2) I can imagine that a few of the BR guys don’t get any benefit from annealing even though I do. Everything they do is...

I talked to a Park ranger a few years back who worked in bear country. He said that he always kept a road flare in his pocket. When I acted surprised, he said that a road flare presents a lot of things to a bear that they don't like. It's bright, it hisses, it can't be easily extinguished, it...