10-15-2023, 08:03 PM
Oh the wonderous wonders of checking your steps. Tools can be awesome or terrible.
In this case, awesome
So.....
Fired brass reads 17. My annealed brass reads 14. Virgin lapua reads 15.
Typically I decap, clean, resize, anneal, then partial resize again by running through the expander ball/mandrel only. The above values gave me the info needed to see what that last step is doing. It still work hardens slightly and brings the reading up to 15, exactly the same as lapua virgin brass which would explain the near infinite life I've been seeing.
Just food for thought, that $200 saved me easily that much money in range time/fees, ammo, etc finding out using long running data.
In this case, awesome
So.....
Fired brass reads 17. My annealed brass reads 14. Virgin lapua reads 15.
Typically I decap, clean, resize, anneal, then partial resize again by running through the expander ball/mandrel only. The above values gave me the info needed to see what that last step is doing. It still work hardens slightly and brings the reading up to 15, exactly the same as lapua virgin brass which would explain the near infinite life I've been seeing.
Just food for thought, that $200 saved me easily that much money in range time/fees, ammo, etc finding out using long running data.