Just annealed my first 100 or so 45-70 used Starlines. Never done it before, thanks to all the members who contributed. Previously I'd just thought to re-load the brass until it failed to pass muster by inspection.
Question: how do you guys maintain a protocol for brass that has been through several annealings? I.e., for this brass, I'm only estimating it all was close to 10X used. So, now I annealed them. Would I simply call these "annealed" and essentially they could be treated as any other fired and annealed brass, irrespective of how many annealing cycles they've gone through?
I.e.: one "lot" of brass has been loaded 4X. It is cleaned and annealed. Thus it has seen one cycle.
Another lot has been loaded 4X, then annealed, then loaded again 4X, then annealed again. It has seen two annealing cycles. For all intents and purposes, could you consider these equivalent and you don't keep them in separate containers, or do you basically have a container marked "4X fired, 1X annealed," another might say "8X fired, 2X annealed," another might have brass that has seen 15 firings and 3 annealings, and it has its own container marked accordingly? If you get 20 total cycles, 400 total cases, you clean and anneal lots of 150 at a time, you might have, well, let's say - a lot of sorted containers to manage correctly?
Trying to cut down on stacks and stacks of containers with separate labels, unless that's just a bad idea and...label and sort everything. Thanks.