BattleRife
07-21-2019, 10:15 PM
I am hoping that some of you gentlemen who have reloading books published at different times throughout the cartridge case era can help me find any historical references to the practice of annealing brass cartridge cases. The factories started doing a final case mouth anneal in around 1920, and I would like to learn when awareness of the practice started spreading among handloaders, and how the attitudes toward it have evolved over time. The oldest references I have now are in The American Rifleman magazine from the early 1950s, with readers writing in to ask about the best ways to accomplish the task. The technical editors of the time seemed happy enough to oblige, but ten years later similar questions were regularly met with the opinion that it is a waste of time, with little practical benefit to the loader at home.
I'm looking for any description on how it may be done, what situations to use it in and what the perceived benefits might be. Time frame of interest is anywhere from about 1915 to the start of the internet era. I am particularly interested to find anything backed up by experimentation or test data. Please contact me my private message on this forum if you know of anything, I would be happy to receive a scan by email, or just a publication reference so I can go find a copy on my own.
I'm looking for any description on how it may be done, what situations to use it in and what the perceived benefits might be. Time frame of interest is anywhere from about 1915 to the start of the internet era. I am particularly interested to find anything backed up by experimentation or test data. Please contact me my private message on this forum if you know of anything, I would be happy to receive a scan by email, or just a publication reference so I can go find a copy on my own.