I sometimes do it to get more life out of my increasingly valuable cases, but not with an AMP machine for 1000 yard target ammo.
All my brass has never been annealed and case life on 1000’s are way past 10 reloads…
I consider 10 reloads as just getting broken in Shrap...
But after watching and reading all your posts over the last 20 years or so... I'll concede, you are one of the small number of campfire heroes I have.
you just do a lot of stuff with Style, as opposed to the Midget up on PoW Island AK...
Thanks for the endorsement, but at the risk of being too “Big Stick like” I don’t want to sound as a know it all. The reference to many times past 10 reloads is seriously “many”.
I am still using 223 brass I got over 30 years ago because it was cheap military brass and it is still working. I full length resize all reloads because I use the ammo in as many as 5 different rifles and I don’t want the hard chambering you get without full length resizing.
So there seems to be a myth floating around that there is a need for annealing as a common practice in reloading. The OP in his original post eluded to that by how his question was worded. If he had been shooting in any competitive discipline, I doubt he would have asked that question.
Another myth is the need to clean primer pockets and flash hole every time you reload. All the ammunition I reload is done the simplest way possible with no case prep or unneeded steps that many consider necessary in the process of reloading.
In conclusion I shoot thousands of rounds every year in rifles and handguns and don’t
Neck size
Anneal
Clean primer pockets
Trim cases
While I do
Full length resize
Use a Dillon 650
Vibrate all cartridges once they are loaded for cleaning
Shoot 1 load in as many as 5 different rifles
And after decades of doing this, I still hit stuff and have way fewer problems that it seems that crop up here for needing help to overcome.
As for annealing, since I don’t do it, I haven’t thrown out enough cases due to split case necks to even mention a problem. Over working brass is another concern many seem to allude to and with all those cartridges being full length sized, it hasn’t been an issue either…