In general, most people which start Annealing find it does improve their results. There ARE guys like
@South Prairie Jim which find they get worsened results, which largely describes that their non-annealing process was more consistent than the result of their annealing process, so they go back to not annealing. We’ve all heard countless guys say “well, I tried it, but didn’t see a difference so I stopped.” BUT… in general, when it comes to annealing, as long as we’re not overheating (running dead soft, heating the entire case, burning away zinc, etc) and as long as we’re actually heating enough to influence grain structure, doing SOMETHING wrong should at least end up better than not doing anything.
But overcooking brass does come with consequences which are also likely to be holding points off of your score. Shifting from “inconsistent primary ignition due to inconsistent neck tension” to “inconsistent primary ignition due to inSUFFICIENT neck tension.”
But it’s patently false to say “There is no correct temperature. Annealing is what ever you need it to be.” and saying such flies in the face of the intelligent and diligent folks which have literally written books on materials science pertinent to this subject. This below shows 1) there IS a correct temperature, and 2) there ARE wrong temperatures. Saying otherwise is absolute nonsense, and it is apparent you are intentionally misleading folks away from good and proven science.
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