look ok for my first time anealling ?

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  • jwilson1985

    look ok for my first time anealling ?


  • #2
    Looks good, how did you do yours? I have a way I do mine, but it is a little strange, I wait to do mine when I am going to cast bullets. I will dip the necks into the molten lead and if I hold it with my bare fingers by the base I can tell when they start to get hot, that way I can pull them out, tap them off then toss them into a small bucket of water that I use when casting to water quench my bullets.

    Greg

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    • jwilson1985

      #3
      iv heard of that way this was the first time ive tried this... i used a drill and a torch + timer

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      • PumpActionJackson

        #4
        I have never annealed my brass but am looking to learn, i have studied up on it a little bit, how long or for how many loads would you say it extends the life of your brass?

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        • jwilson1985

          #5
          this is the first time i have done this so only time will tell but i know i gut here local that has 30-40 on his...so it seems good laupa brass comes anealled already but they still need it redone at some point .some people dont do this at all. but with as precious as grendel brass is i figured it was worth a shot

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          • txgunner00
            Chieftain
            • Mar 2011
            • 2070

            #6
            I made this to ease annealing by hand. No need to rotate the case & it speeds up the process a bit. Now I just need to incorporate it into a machine like the new Giraud annealer.

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            • #7
              I chuck my rounds into one of those Lee case trimming lock studs and while spinning at low RPM, I hit the shoulder just below where the neck meets it with a tight focused, medium heat, torch tip. I watch the heat travel toward the mouth and stop when it gets there. FWIW, I do not anneal my Grendel brass, but I do anneal those miserable .25 WSSM cases before fire forming them up to .300 OSSM. Anyway, the lock stud works fine for my small scale jobs (<=50 cases). My experience has been that a broader, hot, swirl torch just heats everything so fast, it's hard to react in time to prevent over softening the necks, which what happens when I try to heat the neck and wait for the color line to move down to the shoulder. The necks having so much less mass than the shoulder area. Much easier to start in the middle and let it work backwards. I have a lead casting furnace and tried that, but wound up with a mess when some spots on the necks wanted to tin and others didn't. I've soldered for over 30 years and have a good feel for it. Just couldn't project that experience base upon hot dipping them. Perhaps a coat of solder mask would help, but then you'd have to clean that off after you were done.

              Even if I weren't using it to anneal, I still like the look of txgunner00's opposing flame torch arrangement. Too cool!

              Hoot

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              • jwilson1985

                #8
                ya i like that thing too,,,,,tx how many loads u getting out of them

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by jwilson1985 View Post
                  ya i like that thing too,,,,,tx how many loads u getting out of them
                  My biggest casualty isn't the necks, but the primer pockets using Hornady brass. I lose a few each cycle after about 3 loadings.

                  Hoot

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                  • jwilson1985

                    #10
                    ya idk if its just my rifle .i mean its a tac driver but i noticed that even the factory hornady rounds the primers were a lil bulged ..but i noticed that the brass seemed really soft when trimming compaired to others ive reloaded

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                    • sneaky one
                      Chieftain
                      • Mar 2011
                      • 3077

                      #11
                      So it's probably true - I posted a while back -that priv-p--wolf is probably the company, (according to the guy from A1 ammo, that I met this summer) making hornadys brass== good lorde.......here we go again.

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                      • jwilson1985

                        #12
                        thats why i was gonna try anealling them i could tell by how soft they were i would be lucky to get to get 3-4 out of them....i wish this site had a shout box lol

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by sneaky one View Post
                          So it's probably true - I posted a while back -that priv-p--wolf is probably the company, (according to the guy from A1 ammo, that I met this summer) making hornadys brass== good lorde.......here we go again.
                          That's a pretty strong allegation for A1 Ammo to make. If it's true, I wonder what other American manufacturers subcontract their brass off shore?

                          Hoot
                          Last edited by Guest; 09-07-2011, 02:43 AM. Reason: grammar

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                          • bwaites
                            Moderator
                            • Mar 2011
                            • 4445

                            #14
                            As far as I know, Hornady is producing their own brass, not contracting. Privi makes the Wolf brass, but I'm pretty confident that Hornady is producing their own.

                            IF Privi was making the brass, I can't imagine why they would continue to make large primer AND small primer brass.

                            Also, comparing the brass, the coloring is visibly different. Consistent across runs of Hornady, consistent across runs of Privi large primer, but not consistent between the two. They look like two slightly different recipes to me.
                            Last edited by bwaites; 09-07-2011, 02:33 AM.

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                            • jwilson1985

                              #15
                              agreed
                              Originally posted by bwaites View Post
                              As far as I know, Hornady is producing their own brass, not contracting. Privi makes the Wolf brass, but I'm pretty confident that Hornady is producing their own.

                              IF Privi was making the brass, I can't imagine why they would continue to make large primer AND small primer brass.

                              Also, comparing the brass, the coloring is visibly different. Consistent across runs of Hornady, consistent across runs of Privi large primer, but not consistent between the two. They look like two slightly different recipes to me.

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