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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2534670" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>All good sir, my apologies. </p><p></p><p>You're correct that resizing will be easier. If you're seeing that, it's working for you. You should see more consistent movement of the shoulders on the case, but you might have to readjust your die to account for the reduced amount that the brass is springing back after annealing. Do you have any kind of a headspace comparator like the Hornady tool? If you do you can take actual measurements, but if you don't you can use your chamber as a reference. </p><p></p><p>One method of figuring out how often to anneal is based on readjusting your sizing die. Back your sizing die off until it's at least a full turn above contacting the shell holder, size a case, and if it chambers in the rifle then load and shoot it. Repeat firings until the case won't chamber any more. At that point anneal the cases, then adjust the sizing die down down in 1/8ths of a turn increments until a case chambers in the rifle.* </p><p></p><p>Then resize and shoot however many cycles it takes until that die setting isn't enough to resize the case and they stop fitting in the rifle again. That's when you anneal again, and after resizing in the die (without adjusting it) the cases should fit again.</p><p></p><p>* - Try not to size the same case more than once if you have enough cases, you can resize all these "test" cases at the end at the final setting, but using a fresh case each turn of the die will help you be more accurate. No cases get damaged as part of this, they're all useable but it's better if they only get sized twice as part of setting the die.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2534670, member: 116181"] All good sir, my apologies. You're correct that resizing will be easier. If you're seeing that, it's working for you. You should see more consistent movement of the shoulders on the case, but you might have to readjust your die to account for the reduced amount that the brass is springing back after annealing. Do you have any kind of a headspace comparator like the Hornady tool? If you do you can take actual measurements, but if you don't you can use your chamber as a reference. One method of figuring out how often to anneal is based on readjusting your sizing die. Back your sizing die off until it's at least a full turn above contacting the shell holder, size a case, and if it chambers in the rifle then load and shoot it. Repeat firings until the case won't chamber any more. At that point anneal the cases, then adjust the sizing die down down in 1/8ths of a turn increments until a case chambers in the rifle.* Then resize and shoot however many cycles it takes until that die setting isn't enough to resize the case and they stop fitting in the rifle again. That's when you anneal again, and after resizing in the die (without adjusting it) the cases should fit again. * - Try not to size the same case more than once if you have enough cases, you can resize all these "test" cases at the end at the final setting, but using a fresh case each turn of the die will help you be more accurate. No cases get damaged as part of this, they're all useable but it's better if they only get sized twice as part of setting the die. [/QUOTE]
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