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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian Bushman" data-source="post: 866525" data-attributes="member: 41122"><p>To verify kirby's statements of annealing i took a box of twice fired winchester brass for my 308 and annealed them where the necks were clearly orange in my garage during the day time and then quenched the cases. I repeated this procedure twice.</p><p></p><p>I then washed and tumbled the cases and neck sized them with my typical sizing die. </p><p></p><p>Then i took a bullet and seated it to depth and tried to wiggle and pull it out by hand.</p><p>I could not. </p><p></p><p>I proceeded to pull the bullet with a KE hammer and try to re insert it by hand.</p><p>I could not.</p><p></p><p>After that i re seated the bullet without re sizing the neck and could not pull it out by hand. </p><p></p><p>Again i pulled the bullet and tried to re insert it by hand and could not.</p><p></p><p>My conclusion is that which mirrors kirby's statements and annealing case necks until they are faintly or even definitively orange does not necessarily mean the case will not provide sufficient neck tension. Not to say it can not happen, simply in my experience annealing the case until slightly orange is not a bad practice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian Bushman, post: 866525, member: 41122"] To verify kirby's statements of annealing i took a box of twice fired winchester brass for my 308 and annealed them where the necks were clearly orange in my garage during the day time and then quenched the cases. I repeated this procedure twice. I then washed and tumbled the cases and neck sized them with my typical sizing die. Then i took a bullet and seated it to depth and tried to wiggle and pull it out by hand. I could not. I proceeded to pull the bullet with a KE hammer and try to re insert it by hand. I could not. After that i re seated the bullet without re sizing the neck and could not pull it out by hand. Again i pulled the bullet and tried to re insert it by hand and could not. My conclusion is that which mirrors kirby's statements and annealing case necks until they are faintly or even definitively orange does not necessarily mean the case will not provide sufficient neck tension. Not to say it can not happen, simply in my experience annealing the case until slightly orange is not a bad practice. [/QUOTE]
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