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Yes, straight into a bucket full, kept well away from the salt pot as a splash of water into the salt would be unpleasant indeed! Water cooling has no relevance to the annealing process, it's just to clean off the salt carry-over. It's also convenient to have somewhere to put the hot brass.

Here's some .338 trial cases compared to a brand new Lapua out of the box. The black line is to show the colour change as the pic is a bit poor in that respect. 3 sec seems to give sufficient heating to anneal and moderate heat transfer up towards the head. 5sec seems a touch too long. The neck 'springiness' seems to be the same as the new case and definitely softer than the fired cases I have to compare with so I conclude (admittedly in a less than scientific case study) that molten salts at 520C work very well and are very repeatable. Not bad for under £100 for the metal, new Lyman lead pot and chemicals (including safety equipment😀)

Yep, I got some stainless discs from eBay including stainless pop rivets and screws. Setting the case depth is a matter of suck it and see. Don't be surprised the salt mix is really scummy as it melts, it does get clearer as it heats to the final temperature. PS, the case in my pictures was just for setting up, the cases must be de-capped before processing. Good luck

Yep, the temperature control is near perfect. Once you have the right depth of insertion for the case set, the only variable is the time and that's easy to manage.

It should worry any sensible person! However if you're sensible why not consider it. After all water in the chip pan is a bad idea too 😁

Here's my molten salt bath annealing rig. Shameless rip-off of a great idea from Ballistic Recreations 😁. I needed a set up to fit my Lyman pot so I set about making one for .338Lap cases. About £8 in stainless from eBay and salts from APC Pure for about £24. (It helps to have a lathe). Early development yet but looking good. 5sec at 520deg C at 20mm depth of salt is too long. I found 3 sec seems to give the desired affect for a .338 Lap case. A lot better than gas burners I think (I built one of those too). I must admit it puts the willies up me a bit having half a litre of 520deg C salt in front of me. 😟 When melting the salt mix for the first time there's a bit of scum and fizzing as impurities are burnt off, the second melt was much cleaner. Pics of results soon

I can't see any advantages one over the other for target shooting. I have both and swap between - this does cause me a little brain ache for 5mins. In the military we used mils which are useful for ranging (but not easy to be accurate in reality). These days just light 'em up with your laser R.F. I have FFP and SFP scopes, I prefer the SFP reticle for precision on my .308 as it's nice and fine at max mag. The FFP is useful for very long distance with my .338 as I can measure and translate POI errors onto the turrets without thinking. I feel for those with mil reticles and MOA turrets (or vic-versa) !

+1, very helpful

Of course. If there's a a later possibility please PM me, cash could be waiting

How much for the new cases please (are they Lapua?)

Hear-hear to that. Or is it here-here ? Re-Pete, surely you let the badger take cover before taking aim?

Sorry all, OK, enough from me already !

Oh what a load of horse shizzle you pompous ass. I was criticising your use of bull-poo pseudo psychology. You've made 2+2 = 22. For sure it's easy to unintentionally upset someone through an ill-placed joke in an extemporised written post - didn't need the lecture on none-verbal thanks. For clarity I'm still being rude and meaning it as you can't see my gesture to clarify and my tone of voice.

I was being deliberately rude, I thought your trite bull was demanding it. What do you do/what industry do you work in then that gives you such insight to avoid costing "hundreds if not thousands of lives" ? Hand signal received and appreciated.

Well thanks for that. I always wondered if it was 93%, I had thought it to be 92% but I stand corrected. Look, this is just a load of hog-wash. Albert Mehrabian has been debunked many times. Please don't insult my intelligence with hackneyed management speak from 'Supervisors 101' module for middle managers

Email and message posts: Banter gets taken out of context so easily. Perhaps better to not try and be funny as there's always someone getting peed off in the end. In the context of communication it's what's received that matters, not what's intended. IMO let everyone enjoy their sport how they wish, without ranking our personal preferences higher than others.

shush, let them think we haven't anything up North. As regards Bradders saying we have a chip, well I'm well balanced - a chip on both shoulders 🤣

Bisley's bloody brilliant, you lot stay down there and make good use of it - remember it's grim up North and we eat children 😂