Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles to anneal or not-to anneal?

Hi
Am reloading for a 30-06. Standard velocity 165 or 168 grain spitzers.
Have Winchester brass.
Generally have reloaded about 5 times and tossed the brass in previous years.
Would I be smarter to learn how to properly anneal the neck/shoulder area, and keep on reloading, or, am I looking at too much probability of incipient head problems if I pushed past about 5 reloads anyway?
Also, would I be smarter to pay the premium for Lapua brass and possibly get a couple more reloads on that brass?
What say you?

Anneal every 4 loadings, size with LCD until sized brass chambers snug, then bump the shoulder back a couple thou. Get 20 firings out a case that way

Is "LCD" a company, or a type of die?
also, what method do you use to anneal the case?

Lee Collet Die.

Got it.... size the neck with a Lee Collet die until the shoulder on the 06 case is too tight, then set the normal resizing die to just bump back a couple thousandths.... makes sense.
What about the best method to anneal for a rookie at that process? Suggestions?

For a rookie the best way is probably the candle method that Mule Deer has written about. Maybe send him a PM and ask about where to find that.

I sometimes wonder if a lot of us (including and especially me) fool ourselves with annealing. I am not sure that I have really accomplished anything or that I sometimes haven't taken a bunch of cases that are of fairly uniform tension and made them less so.

Hold head of case in fingers, rotating in flame until the green streak you painted on the inside of the case mouth melts...

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth..._re_quenching_after_annealin#Post4503090

Thanks to all for this information. Much appreciated.

What's such a big deal about posting a couple of pics of some ratty looking Remington 223 brass?

Well it was range pick up brass, and I did an experiment ( originally with 10 pieces, but 3 got screwed up at the reloading press by operator error )

But using a regimen of neck sizing with a Lee Collet Die, and bumping the shoulder back every 4th or 5th time with a Redding Body die and Annealing every 4th time.... and shooting 55 grain bullets thru a Rem ADL....

These pieces have been reloaded 101 times... primer pockets are still tight enough to reload again...

a little prudence at the power scale ( loaded with 12.5 grains of Blue Dot), I find max at 13.5 with that bullet weight...

So to Anneal or NOT to? Count me into the Anneal Your Brass Camp...