When to anneal

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Not really when but how many rounds.
When I shoot, I usually reload the cases that I shot that day. The issue is I do not want to setup the saltwater bath annealing setup for 20 to 30 rounds (308 and 6.5 CM). I have a bunch of empty brass and now thinking that I should just throw the shot brass into a bin until I get a hundred or so rounds before starting up the annealing process.
How are you doing your anneal?
 
I wait until I have a large enough batch to make it worthwhile, so, a few hundred at least. If I had an inductive annealer (on my list) I would do it whenever I had just a few pieces to do, but the salt-bath takes a while to get setup and tear down.
 
I just use previously annealed brass from Lake City :D

Seriously though I have seen easy to do annealing using a torch and tempilac with a drill. If I had to do it, that's probably the route I would go.

Personally I hoard so much brass for .223 and .308 that I will seriously have to shoot alot more than I current do to get 3-4 firings on all of them.
 
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Personally I hoard so much brass for .223 and .308 that I will seriously have to shoot alot more than I current do to get 3-4 firings on all of them.

Ikarus1, I too am a hoarded. I must have 1.5 - 5 gallon bucket of 223 brass and about 1 - 5 gallon bucket of 308 and 6.5 CM brass. All have been deprimed and resized. When at the range I can not leave any rifle caliber brass there even if I do not shoot that caliber.
I just got in a habit of reloading what I shoot as soon as possible in the same brass. As Toprudder said, he accumulates a 100+ cases before he cranks up the annealer and I think that is going to be my game plan. Now just to learn and make sure that the PID controller works.
 
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