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So according to this video it shouldn't matter how precise the annealing is because once you size it. The hardness will be the same no matter if you dropped it to 98 to 100. It will just make the life of the brass live longer.

I haven't seen Vickers being done on curved surfaces and not using the reticles to measure the diamond tips. Interesting.

Trouble is I shoot and reload about 12,000 rounds a yr. Can we get a machine that feeds automatically and wicked quick?

My favorite part is the no box cutter cutter symbol, while he's opening it with a box cutter. I know the symbol is just to get your attention, but funny nonetheless

Who can legitimately question the price point of this machine. So many points of manufacturing. Credit to AMP.

Would it be a lower seating force if you annealed, then resized and still not brushed the inside of the neck? My understanding is you should clean brass, anneal, resize, use graphite or neolube 2 inside the neck, prime, charge then seat the bullet.

Invalid example. Shooting and reloading an un-annealled case 20 times into one group is ridiculous and deceptive.

With all the primo gear, I’m a little disappointed that you don’t have an electron microscope sitting on your desk to the left to analyze the case on a molecular level…

I just started annealing my cases because it's beneficial (lol)... but NOW I actually know why! This is the BEST tutorial on the How/Why you should anneal. Brilliant video and explanation - now I can intelligently answer when somebody asks why I go through the trouble to anneal my brass. Cheers!

There is no Sessions button in the menu bar. How do I create a new session?

I should have watched this video when it came out. I have 3 wildcats. .20PPC (.220 Russian case necked down to .20), .338 Edge (.300 RUM necked up to .338), and the much maligned 8.6BLK. People that make their own brass use different cases for the parent. During resizing I use a neck bushing die with an expander ball because that's the die that is available. It's the only die that I still have an expander ball in. Everything else is FL/Neck bushing followed by a mandrel. Typically I'll anneal then size. With the 8.6BLK, as long as I'm using the expander ball, it seems like I should anneal after the carnage of the expander ball's travel. Or better still, ditch the ball.

Never thought .375 could look small

Thanks for explaining the annealing and hardening processes in this manner. Understanding how the energy is stored and released by the two processes helps to make it so much clearer.

It's a big little operation

...now I'm looking at my reloads and thinking "I could have made you better"

what is the rifle fired in this video, action, stock barrel, cartridge?

I still don't see 1600.00. Maybe 600 700 tops.

Wow . That's impressive, great job .

You know this guy is the greatest ballistic accuracy reloader shooter testor in the world .holy six figure reloading testing man cave in the world batman😂

Still faster than a muzzleloader 😂

Hands down the clearest explanation of annealing and it's effects on brass. If you anneal, are thinking about annealing you should watch this first!

Amazing.....

Since reloaders use differing techniques to reload, do amounts of annealing change according to the reloader's technique, or should we all be doing it the same?

Love mine

Love my AMP! Thank You everybody that worked on it.

Some people go deep on the reloading rabbit hole.... that ia a very scientific approach to reloading

Lousy spotter. Poor communication/dialogue. Poor feedback. Poor corrective actions

The men who explored and set up ranches and founded towns and rode stagecoaches and dug for minerals used "Ideal" tong tool hand reloading tools and they never annealed their brass cartridge case, yet they harvested game animals and fought outlaws and attacking roving bands of "Injuns" with their Sharps and other rifles. In the big cities on the East coast other gents engaged in weekly rifle shooting matches (whereas nowadays their great grandchildren play golf) shooting Sharps and other target rifles and they loaded their own ammo, and never annealed anything.

anything is OK but the price is totaly out of logic without any discussion

Hello. That was VERY quiet. A.) What kind of sound suppressor are you using? B.) What sort of backstop / bullet catcher are you shooting into? Looks like you are in a basement of a house.

Yes and the big-bang theory was true for a hundred years until it suddenly wasn't...

❤ thank you

No question ,the machine is perfect but the price out of any logic for major part of reloaders 😂

Nothing here proving that annealed brass is shooting better than non annealed brass, but just the shooter wind doping better in the second group. Hence proof would be just to show the standard deviations of speeds of the two groups, since this would be the real proof that there is a difference, with lower deviations of annealed brass that would be the proof instead. Also, would need to know how many shots the brass has since it was first prepped, since if talking brand new prepped brass, verse the same with annealing after prep and it put in to action, then would not expect any differences in mean SD speeds to start with.

Without trying to guild the Lilly, why where the standard deviations not shown for brass annealing, and not annealed of the groups. Yes, there are some other variables that can make a difference in group size such as neck tension, shoulder/neck spring back and such on initial bullet engagement, but the fact that most will set engagement of the bullet to leade to start with (instead of jump) to shoot the tightest groups, unless the annealing processes every round is decreasing standard deviations in speeds for the group, then your spending $1.6K for your cases to go slightly longer, instead of just prepping and getting the next batch of cases ready to go into rotation instead. Hence case would still need to be re-trimmed at some point, and when you account for the annealing wear and plasma erosion of the cases that still need to be cleaned at some point themselves, were volume and neck thickness have changed, then have your really gained anything that still comes down to one ability to wind dope at longer ranges instead. Hence just because a rig and ammo can shoot .3 MOA indoors @ 100yards, does not mean that the shooter can reproduce these groups behind the rig at 1K yards outdoors in the changing wind and temps instead. Also to point out, when it comes to indoor shot groups back in the 70's where you where not fighting temps and wind changes, Such Bench shooters where achieving .1moa groups as the norm instead.

Thank you for making this video! I'm now smarter for watching it! The hardness tester is truly a neat apparatus!

Excellent. This explains why my new Lapua seating pressure is almost double the once-fired (with follow up annealing). Even thought Lapua is factory annealed, it is just too clean inside the case, which as Alex explains, increases the friction dramatically. And which is why some of the reloaders say to just shoot up new brass and then do load development on once fired or more.

How do you arrive at the "additional" power numbers? What do those number mean? Is it a time in seconds, or is it power+time, or what? Just curious.

I have an AMP 2 as well. What if I anneal 2x in quick succession. The case will be annealed the 2nd time while the case is already very hot, and I'm assuming that in Aztec mode the machine is not measuring temperature of each case being annealed so it will get the same time+power level, etc. Won't it over-anneal?

Thank you very much, was given at a middle school level of understanding. Perfect for me!

When should you anneal your brass? When new or after a number of sizings?

Do you see any differences after multiple firings of the cases?

Eww wow a two shot group

Any future plans of coming out with an app that will work on tablets like an IPad?

What a relief it’s made in NZ and not farmed out to a low cost producer well I’m sure the electronic parts are but quality control and employing locals is a real bonus.

Sweet range location

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Great video I don’t anneal my 223 ammunition and works just fine 1/2 Moa but it’s probably more critical for bigger capacity cases I don’t really know.

Way overpriced