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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
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How much neck tension for hunting loads?
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<blockquote data-quote="vancewalker007" data-source="post: 1951195" data-attributes="member: 66917"><p>For years and years of reloading, carrying ammo in the field I've found about .002 and up easily stands up to field use. For that matter when I start a new load effort I always start at .002. Now the caveat here is the brass needs to not become work hardened. You must be annealing properly and keeping you case necks fresh. I did some ad hoc testing a few times with different brass where I loaded up and shoot the same loads until I started noticing seating issues, .ie start noticing seating depth/feel difference or resizing issues which is indicative of work hardening. It seemed to always be around the 3-4 shots. So, to never waste my time on cases that might be work hardened but avoid annealing after every use I never shoot a case more than twice with out annealing.</p><p></p><p>I guess the easiest thing would be just to anneal every time <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😃" title="Grinning face with big eyes :smiley:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png" data-shortname=":smiley:" /> but I am a little lazy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vancewalker007, post: 1951195, member: 66917"] For years and years of reloading, carrying ammo in the field I've found about .002 and up easily stands up to field use. For that matter when I start a new load effort I always start at .002. Now the caveat here is the brass needs to not become work hardened. You must be annealing properly and keeping you case necks fresh. I did some ad hoc testing a few times with different brass where I loaded up and shoot the same loads until I started noticing seating issues, .ie start noticing seating depth/feel difference or resizing issues which is indicative of work hardening. It seemed to always be around the 3-4 shots. So, to never waste my time on cases that might be work hardened but avoid annealing after every use I never shoot a case more than twice with out annealing. I guess the easiest thing would be just to anneal every time 😃 but I am a little lazy. [/QUOTE]
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