Brass sticking in chamber.

[Karl Blanchard]

You literally couldn't pay me to go back to hand torching. 

[jasnt]

I have a giraud tool machine.
Isn’t absolutely necessary but does a consistent job and is easy to run. I just fill it up and let it go.

I don’t have a picture of the machine on my phone but this picture is some 6mm creedmoor rounds I annealer and necked down from 6.5 next to some 243.

they don’t appear to be very consistent. Colors run down at different lengths.  My hand annealed brass is more consistent than that.  I would expect machine annealed brass to all look identical.

[Karl Blanchard]

I have a giraud tool machine.
Isn’t absolutely necessary but does a consistent job and is easy to run. I just fill it up and let it go.

I don’t have a picture of the machine on my phone but this picture is some 6mm creedmoor rounds I annealer and necked down from 6.5 next to some 243.

they don’t appear to be very consistent. Colors run down at different lengths.  My hand annealed brass is more consistent than that.  I would expect machine annealed brass to all look identical.

I think what you are seeing is just the angle of the pic and the cartridges not being lined up very evenly.  For instance the one on the far left is back slightly making it look like it's a different sized case all together.  I promise you every single piece that comes out of that annealer is perfectly identical. I've run thousands of pieces of my brass through it and it's on point every time.

[Jonathan_S]

Man’s time is worth something. That Girraud (sic?) is very good to my brass too

[jasnt]

Could just be the angle of the pic. I’m happy I have the experience to not need the machines and For the price of those things I’ll stick with my torch and fingers and put the money in components instead. Pretty nice of Chris to share his toys.

[Karl Blanchard]

Could just be the angle of the pic. I’m happy I have the experience to not need the machines and For the price of those things I’ll stick with my torch and fingers and put the money in components instead. Pretty nice of Chris to share his toys.

has nothing to do with experience and everything to do with ease of use.  I did it by hand for 15 years and could do it by hand for the next 15 but machine is easier no if ands or buts about it.  And yes chris is a generous friend

[Magnum_Willys]

Anyone using their electric induction model or the torch ?

[Crunchy]

I do it with the old drill and socket method.  Usually not more than 100 at a time which doesn't take more than a 10 minutes if I get my son to feed casings.

[Oh Mah]

I'm learning.Seems that i am more a rookie at this than i thought.A lot goes into knowing how to hand load.Today i went to Cabelas in Marysville.Picking up all that is needed to fill my empties lol. on the shelf i see this .300 win mag case gauge. What is this i thought.Well a couple min. with one of the employees there and now i know.I went thru about a hundred cases that have been fully resized.These cases have all been fired 3-5 times with no annealing.I got 23 of them to sit in the case gauge and fall out,The rest stuck up about 3/8 in. and had to be pushed out.



                Reloading: Always a learning curve.