A.M.P

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A while ago I spoke on annealing of cases as a way to improve and extend case life as we know repeated firing and sizing hardens the brass then we get neck splits.
I faffed around with a drill and gas torch and stuffed more cases than I fixed so I brought an A.M.P machine (Annealing Made Perfect) about 4 years ago.

I was suffering some neck splits in my 303 brass after about 5 reloads and the 6.6/284 brass just got hard as heck suffering a few splits there as well.
After getting the machine I have yet to experience any neck splits and my brass is lasting well passed 10 reloads.
But you will see from the pics of my 6.5/284 brass the obvious differences in one that has not been into the annealer and one that has.

The work & fire hardened one is on the left and the annealed one on the Rt you can see the colour change in how the brass looks kind of duller as it is brought back to malleable status & destressed.
Then the side shots with the untreated one on the left.
So if you want to extend the life of your brass go the annealing road.

My 6.5/284 cases are prepped thus ~ FLS'd, TTL'd, Necks chamfered out/in, P/Pocket cleaned, Measure & check Web, Sonic cleaned every 5 -6 reloads, Annealed then reloaded.
The more you handle your cases the better to spot things that are gone awry.

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