Annealing is a "softening"/stress relieving process, not hardening.
The guy at ballisticstudies.com has issues with confusing his opinions with facts.

to add: copper does harden with age as do other metallic materials but "natural annealing" is not happening.

Last edited by SBTCO; 01/20/21.
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