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<blockquote data-quote="Alex Wheeler" data-source="post: 2414278" data-attributes="member: 101859"><p>Guys need to stop thinking about neck tension simply as consistency. You can throw a very consistent powder charge, but if its the wrong one the rifle wont shoot. You can seat bullets to a very consistent oal but if its the wrong amount of jump it wont shoot. Neck tension is the same way. First you have to find the right amount of it then do it consistently. Thats why there is no correct answer to anneal or not. Annealing has a huge effect on neck tension. Thats why sometimes it helps and sometimes it hurts. In every rifle I have tested it to date, it has not improved my groups. In some cases it didn't hurt them either, but in some it did. I do tend to find most rifles prefer a lot of neck tension to group best at 1k. I have had many rifles shoot well up close, even to 600 but fall apart at 1k because of this. Maybe thats why I have not had the best luck with annealing for accuracy, I test at 1k. The exception would be the 338s. Maybe the heavy 300 grain bullet provides enough resistance, but they shoot best with light neck tension.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alex Wheeler, post: 2414278, member: 101859"] Guys need to stop thinking about neck tension simply as consistency. You can throw a very consistent powder charge, but if its the wrong one the rifle wont shoot. You can seat bullets to a very consistent oal but if its the wrong amount of jump it wont shoot. Neck tension is the same way. First you have to find the right amount of it then do it consistently. Thats why there is no correct answer to anneal or not. Annealing has a huge effect on neck tension. Thats why sometimes it helps and sometimes it hurts. In every rifle I have tested it to date, it has not improved my groups. In some cases it didn't hurt them either, but in some it did. I do tend to find most rifles prefer a lot of neck tension to group best at 1k. I have had many rifles shoot well up close, even to 600 but fall apart at 1k because of this. Maybe thats why I have not had the best luck with annealing for accuracy, I test at 1k. The exception would be the 338s. Maybe the heavy 300 grain bullet provides enough resistance, but they shoot best with light neck tension. [/QUOTE]
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