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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Thomas" data-source="post: 386335" data-attributes="member: 15748"><p>Hunter,</p><p> </p><p>Glad to hear it! Accurate performance is what it's all about in the end anyway, so it sounds like your on the right path. </p><p> </p><p>And no, Boomtube's right about that anneal; it's a process to soften certian areas of the case. Working, bending, flexing (all the stuff we do when we fire and resize cases) hardens the brass. Some regions of the case have to be softer than others, and that's wehre the anneal comes in. The shoulder, and particularly the neck, needs to be softer than the body of the case, while the head needs to be pretty hard. Many shooters anneal their own brass, for a variety of reasons, but I wouldn't mess with it in your case just yet. Try the bushing dies, do away with the expander (or at least minimize the amount of tension it puts on the ID of the neck when it passes thru), and that should help. Keep the brass clean, the dies clean and use proper lube and you'll do just fine.</p><p> </p><p>Kevin Thomas</p><p>Lapua USA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Thomas, post: 386335, member: 15748"] Hunter, Glad to hear it! Accurate performance is what it's all about in the end anyway, so it sounds like your on the right path. And no, Boomtube's right about that anneal; it's a process to soften certian areas of the case. Working, bending, flexing (all the stuff we do when we fire and resize cases) hardens the brass. Some regions of the case have to be softer than others, and that's wehre the anneal comes in. The shoulder, and particularly the neck, needs to be softer than the body of the case, while the head needs to be pretty hard. Many shooters anneal their own brass, for a variety of reasons, but I wouldn't mess with it in your case just yet. Try the bushing dies, do away with the expander (or at least minimize the amount of tension it puts on the ID of the neck when it passes thru), and that should help. Keep the brass clean, the dies clean and use proper lube and you'll do just fine. Kevin Thomas Lapua USA [/QUOTE]
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