bigfellascott wrote:Stix wrote:bigrich wrote:How often should you aneal your case necks anyway? Is this a caliber specific thing ? Just starting to get into reloading so any advice would be appreciated
Dunno mate...im not the expert...!!!
I have two hundred of 22-250 cases, and 100 204 cases all at 4x fired.
Some of the 22-250 cases are going through the split neck syndrome every time i fire them now so i think thats telling me something.
My thoughts are every 4 firings, but if i get/make a machine annealer, i can see me doing it every time i wet tumble...!!!
Wow I've reloaded my 22.250 around double that and the same for the 204 and I reckon I've had only a couple of cases that have had split necks.
the 204 is over max recommended loads and the 250 is only running around 3600fps if memory serves me correctly.
Yes mate ive probably given the wrong impression...
I suspect the 22-250 cases im speaking of are either a dodgy batch or more to the point i got ripped a new one by the guy i bought them from, believing they were once fired. He did state they were, & that they were all FL sized, but his sizing is all over the place & many are tight to chamber & measure very long blown out shoulders which is clearly indicative of having not been sized, or not being sized properly...either way i was loosing 1-3 cases/50 with split necks every firing so id like to see if annealing them lowers the fatality rate.
The 204 cases i have are probably fine, but ive had a few unexplained & very abnormal big misses with it last time out, so id like to anneal the cases to make myself more sure its not bad neck tension..
I suspect the out of the ordinary misses to be the new & possibly dodgy batch of proj's im on...amongst 3 very out of the ordinary
complete misses on foxes within 220 yds, one of them was a front on shot on a fox sitting at 200 yds into an approx 5mph wind from 1pm off the heavy bag over the bonnet-basically a given bang flop & an almost unmissable shot really-taking my time for the shot i had the cross hairs weighted to the right of centre of its chest & squeezed off what honestly was a nice shot...i can only describe the sound that followed as a combo of the sound effect used in war movies for a mortar travelling through the air combined with one of those whistling/screaming fire crackers...
My guess is the jacket had partially ripped off the bullet in the barrel--it really was an incredible & eery sound to hear at night by myself..that shot also completely missed the fox...
I need to put a few on paper to see how they print as i haven't done that with this batch, but id just like to anneal the cases anyway
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