Brass sticking in chamber.

[Oh Mah]

just heat neck to a change in color and tip in water?

after every firing or what?

Im gonna get my stuff out and see how far it stretched the new brass.

[Jonathan_S]

Stretching after firing or FL resizing?

[Oh Mah]

before firing new brass 2.258

after firing 2.270

Need re size to 2.268   

[BULLBLASTER]

Neck and shoulder should be heated to 750 ish degrees. Putting them in water isn’t necessary.

I anneal all of mine every firing. But every couple firings is probably sufficient

[Biggerhammer]

Neck and shoulder should be heated to 750 ish degrees. Putting them in water isn’t necessary.

Exactly, the water thing is just time consuming. Once you load for your rifle enough, you can feel the neck tension lesson up. That’s when you need to aneal. With my .300’s and my loads, I aneal about every three firings. When I do, I aneal all of the brass at the same time.

[Oh Mah]

 

[Magnum_Willys]

Use a cordless drill driver, approx 11/16" deep socket ( depending on cartridge) .  Propane torch.
Put drill on slow, brass in socket, center shoulder on flame 2" out, angle brass so flame goes along shoulder angle.  5-6 seconds in flame, gently drop on crunched up aluminum foil to avoid denting or dump in pan of water.

I use metronome app to count out exact seconds.

Test your time - turn off all lights, count how long it takes for brass to just barely turn red at all - this is max time. 

You will see brass turn kind of shiny from tip to  1/2" below shoulder.  This is when you stop.

Try it !  You can test with a punch to see your progress. 

[jasnt]

I anneal every loading. I don’t want something different every few loading. I want every batch exactly the same.  Doing so has made a big enough difference to justify the extra time. Don’t use water cause then you need to dry them to load. The water is just to stop the heat from drifting down the case. Not needed if you don’t over heat. I aim the flame at the neck shoulder junction and have never had get over heated. If your seeing color change on the brass you’re in the right temp range. Annealing every loading means less work hardening between loading and that means less temp is needed to anneal. Don’t do your brass annealing research on reloading info. If you want good info and facts research brass annealing metallurgy

[Karl Blanchard]

My method of annealing is a bit different.  I save up hundreds of pieces of brass then go to BullBlasters house and run them through his fancy machine while simultaneously stuffing my face with those delicious cinnamon frosting breadstick things from pipeline pizza.  It's worked well for me and recommend it highly

[Oh Mah]

lets see this machine,i was just looking at a few home made ones.

[j_h_nimrod]

Last year I bought an Annealeez http://www.annealeez.com/Products.asp and have been pretty happy with it. I anneal every batch now because I don’t keep my brass in lots when I shoot and it is easier to just do it each time I reload. I looked at building my own machine or doing it any of the other numerous other ways but felt that the cost would be offset in time and consistency, which it has. I can do 100 pieces of brass in a few minutes and know they are all consistent.

[Biggerhammer]

Lots of them for sale at half the price of new. There a reason.👍

[jasnt]

Lots of them for sale at half the price of new. There a reason.👍

   

[BULLBLASTER]

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.

[Curly]

Lots of them for sale at half the price of new. There a reason.👍

I haven't seen lots of used units for sale.  I really haven't heard of any complaints with the annealeez.  Seems to work fine........