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Adventures in Annealing

BHPSteel

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Just received my sparkly new Burstfire Comp Edge Pro - their new annealing machine - a cut-down version of their standard machine, without the case prep tools. Small footprint and as it turns out, easy to set up.

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Nothing particularly different from the Annealeze, Ugly and other similar products other than it's supported here in the US and the older model has had pretty good reviews.

Without too much effort, I managed to anneal 200 pieces of 308 today, and a sample of 50 went through the press afterwards and the neck tension was a consistent two thousandths.

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Another 50 that went thru' the press without annealing had neck tensions that were all over the place, so at least I'm getting neck consistency out of the exercise.

All I need to do now is start sorting my brass by headstamp.
 
I actually have about 40 pieces of Lapua, but of varying ages from different purchases of range brass. It's too much to hope for that they'll all be consistent though.

And then, I can't shoot for ****. How am I gonna know how good my loads are anyway?
 
I actually have about 40 pieces of Lapua, but of varying ages from different purchases of range brass. It's too much to hope for that they'll all be consistent though.

And then, I can't shoot for ****. How am I gonna know how good my loads are anyway?
Find someone who can shoot or find a battery/fixture.
 
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