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But many other shooters DO report brass failures without annealing. I've personally had a good number of 357 and 44 Mag cases split at the mouths after being heavily roll-crimped, some after only half a dozen reloadings. I've also had 45 Auto brass start splitting after I took a lot through 50...

AJC1, The candle method really cannot affect your resizing properties. It is only used to prevent neck splits. What it does is take the brass into recovery, which is the first stage of annealing in which dislocated atoms pulled from the crystal structure by moving grains around during working...

Lemon juice is easy to obtain, but expensive in the long run. Lemon Juice contains an average of just 1.44 oz of citric acid per gallon. I'm paying about $0.24 for that much, and haven't found a gallon of lemon juice that cheap yet. Around here, buying citric acid as Lemishine or Dishwasher...

An ultrasonic often has a load density limit. I just mainly don't want the cases forced into contact with one another. Also, the more you put in, the more surface area the same transducer is supplying energy for, so the longer it takes to work. The cases in my image were run in about 120°F...

I'm pretty sure the pink is copper, but it's copper at the surface where zinc was already attacked by oxidation. Citric acid does not attack the brass itself; only the oxides. The pink appears where oxides are greatest, such as the neck and shoulder where annealing oxidized the brass, and...

And I'm very late to this, but it came up on another board, and I found this thread and am not sure the OP ever got a concise answer to his question. In general, in chemistry, all percentages are by weight. This is because the bulk density of powders are not necessarily consistent. This...

Beg borrow or steal a chronograph. Pull enough bullets to learn the charge weight and bullet weight of those reloads. Report them along with the length and weight and type of bullet and the COL of the loaded cartridge. Fire some over the chronograph. Then fire some of your new 231 loads over...