I have taken a few photo's some are better than others
to start a photo of a 22 hornet case that has been full length sized, trimmed to size and neck turned as 22 cal to 9 thou
then the case is put into my trusty very old simplex press and using the 17 ackley seating die
the case is bought down to about 20 cal using the seating die without the seating stem,
then it is put through the 17 cal neck die bringing the neck down to 17 cal
you can see that the neck turning is past the neck into the shoulder so I minimise the chance of a do-nut but have uniform necks
I size the neck down far enough so that I can only just close the bolt of my rifle on the case, it's head spaced off the shoulder
I also have the projectile touching the lands to stop any movement when the round is fired for better forming
this makes the neck grow thicker to 10 thou
now the point of why I wanted to post this all up
annealing the case's, this pic shows me turning a case in a socket and shaft and where I hold the case into the flame
the yellow arrow shows where I am looking for a blue tinge to appear, it comes just after a goldish colour
it is as this photo was taken I took the case away from the flame, you can see that the blue tinge is just appearing and the neck is just turning red
the case is annealed, I hope this is a better explanation than I have been able to write down in the past so it helps the guys who want to do this
and waala I have annealed cases, I dont drop the cases in water to cool them I just air cool them
I stainless steel wet tumble the cases and load them ready for my son to shoot over xmas
when they are shot they will blow out into shape
the forming loads can be very accurate and are good to hunt with
anyway that's they way I do it
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