In my quest to save more time reloading and spend more time actually shooting, I invested more money in new brass vs maxing out the life of the brass I had on hand.
Now, I bought 1000 cases of 30-06 and plan on reloading them 2 times after firing for a total of 3,000 .
My main question is this, Do I need to anneal at all if im only reloading the cases two more times. Or would I need to anneal them new out of the box then not bother annealing them after that?
2nd question is would you save 500, cases to shoot in matches that are brand new or just cycle thru the whole lot?
3rd question, would you trim them back further than 2.484 so I would only have to trim once before I toss them?
This is for my M1s and they beat the heck out of the brass, I noticed after 2 to 3 firings, the case heads are so gouged from the extractors that , I can not fix them with a small file anymore . Trimming and annealing are my biggest time consuming activities when preping brass. It literally takes me hours to load 50 match grade rounds.
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Now, I bought 1000 cases of 30-06 and plan on reloading them 2 times after firing for a total of 3,000 .
My main question is this, Do I need to anneal at all if im only reloading the cases two more times. Or would I need to anneal them new out of the box then not bother annealing them after that?
2nd question is would you save 500, cases to shoot in matches that are brand new or just cycle thru the whole lot?
3rd question, would you trim them back further than 2.484 so I would only have to trim once before I toss them?
This is for my M1s and they beat the heck out of the brass, I noticed after 2 to 3 firings, the case heads are so gouged from the extractors that , I can not fix them with a small file anymore . Trimming and annealing are my biggest time consuming activities when preping brass. It literally takes me hours to load 50 match grade rounds.
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