When do you anneal?

[D-4297]

@Webster . I taught both beginning , and advanced skydiving for thirty-five years and repeatedly answered the same questions thousands of times in those courses . Why ? Because every class , or group of new students had those same questions , "THEY" needed answered , to affirm that piece of information in "THEIR" mind , to have a understanding of the correct procedures . And you may stop to consider that not every person on this website is as computer literate as you are . Repeating the same answer over and over does make sense , if you don't know that answer . Thought we were here to share , and advance the sport .

 

[Webster]

@Webster . I taught both beginning , and advanced skydiving for thirty-five years and repeatedly answered the same questions thousands of times in those courses . Why ? Because every class , or group of new students had those same questions , "THEY" needed answered , to affirm that piece of information in "THEIR" mind , to have a understanding of the correct procedures . And you may stop to consider that not every person on this website is as computer literate as you are . Repeating the same answer over and over does make sense , if you don't know that answer . Thought we were here to share , and advance the sport .

You don't have to be a computer geru to use the search tool. I believe it's at the top of every screen. It's easier and less time consuming to ask a question than reading old post. They are not jumping out of an airplane and risking their life. Even if you ask a question on annealing you will get at least 50 replies and you don't know which one to follow. . Sky diving may be different, there is only one correct answer.

 

[D-4297]

Think you missed the whole point of the response . And with regards to skydiving , which it appears you know very little about from your comment , there can be , and are multiple answers to any question . Based on the context of the question . And the jumper you are dealing with . My response was based on providing , useful information to a newbie reloader , regardless of how redundant you may feel the topic is . Didn't realize we had initiated the "Thought Police" on the site . My Bad ......

 

[Tokay444]

Fire
Decap
Anneal
Wet tumble
Chamfer
Lube
Size
Dry tumble
Prime
Charge
Seat
My brass doesn’t grow. If it did I would trim after sizing.

 

[wagonman]

Fire
Decap
Anneal
Wet tumble
Chamfer
Lube
Size
Dry tumble
Prime
Charge
Seat
My brass doesn’t grow. If it did I would trim after sizing.

I thought I owned the patent on that recipe

 

[geralton4]

Clean brass first, then anneal. Allow it to air cool. Just read this article. www.6mmbr.com You will have to hunt a bit but the article is titled "the art and science of annealing"

 

[Tokay444]

I salt bath anneal, so I wet tumble after.
My brass generally isn't dirty enough after firing to worry about cleaning before.

 

[CA_Shooter]

I salt bath anneal, so I wet tumble after.
My brass generally isn't dirty enough after firing to worry about cleaning before.

Relatively new reloader here in comparison to the others on the board...so this thread is helpful.. I just started to salt bath anneal.

I realized after reading this thread and post that cleaning before annealing is probably a waste of time considering I need to clean afterwards.

 

[rardoin]

Between 6:30 and 7:30 in the evening...Mondays and Fridays.

 

[JFrank]

I forget the member but a few years ago they said;

Annealed after each post.

 

[Intheshop]

Yeah,I'm definitely an evening annealer..... could count on one hand in the last 40 years that any got done in the morning?

Will say this on frequency... my 6mmR really prefers annealing every firing. Most of my rigs are all every 3rd.

 

[Patriot007]

Just my way of thinking but. Wet tumbling with SS pins after annealing is counter productive. Wet tumbling or Vibratory cleaning with corn cobb or walnut Indus's work Harding. You should anneal after your cleaning or anneal a second time after the SSP cleaning. To each his own.
1) DE prime
2) Inspect
3) Steel wool or Wet Tumble SSP. Depends on the rifle's Job description, precision (Bolt) or Auto (AR-10/15)
4) Anneal
5) Clean case necks with steel wool to remove carbon and residue from case necks do to annealing Some concentricity gauges will read the carbon and residue left on the case necks and bodies. (NOISE)
6) FLS
7)Expand the case necks
8) check case neck run out
9) Prime
10) lube case neck with graphite
11) Charge case
12) Seat Bullet
13) Check Bullet Run out.
Then Start over. JM2CW

 

[bozo699]

Never. Before sizing if I were to however.

Tom

Tom,
Didn’t you use to anneal all your Dasher brass each firing?
Wayne

 

[tom]

Tom,
Didn’t you use to anneal all your Dasher brass each firing?
Wayne

You're probably remembering one of the seasons we're I did commit to doing it each cycle, and tune the load to that. I've been full circle three times as technology continues to advance. I've yet to see it improve the maximum razors edge grouping ability, and to be honest have seen it diminish it 100% of the time, with my own stuff.

Tom

 

[bozo699]

You're probably remembering one of the seasons we're I did commit to doing it each cycle, and tune the load to that. I've been full circle three times as technology continues to advance. I've yet to see it improve the maximum razors edge grouping ability, and to be honest have seen it diminish it 100% of the time.

Tom

Thanks Tom!.... you have been a awesome teacher, mentor and great guy to compete and hang out with.
Wayne

 

[Bater]

Before any sizing, doing so afterwards would be counter productive as the point of annealing is to soften work hardened brass prior to it being worked.

 

[ebb]

Ive said it before and I will repeat myself "before you put the primers in!!!"

 

[tsyarnall]

Tom, you’re supposed to say, “Thanks, but you can’t have my Bud Lite, Wayne....”

 

[tom]

Tom, you’re supposed to say, “Thanks, but you can’t have my Bud Lite, Wayne....”

I might consider trading Bud Lite for 210m's lol.

Tom

 

[Catfur]

You don't have to be a computer geru to use the search tool. I believe it's at the top of every screen. It's easier and less time consuming to ask a question than reading old post. They are not jumping out of an airplane and risking their life. Even if you ask a question on annealing you will get at least 50 replies and you don't know which one to follow. . Sky diving may be different, there is only one correct answer.

I've asked questions on here that I know, with near ironclad certainty, that I had seen come up before, and had answers I knew were satisfactory. But I just can't find them on search, and I know how to use search. It's not exactly artificial intelligence, it's a search function, and it's far from perfect.

It's a discussion forum, if only genuinely new questions were allowed to be asked, it'd be awful quiet 'round these parts.