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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 2611242" data-attributes="member: 15054">look at the link that 7stw sent the socket is for holding the brass while you heat the neck.You can hold it in your fingers also, harder to spin but no chance of overheating the case.You can neck size only if you want to. I have measured my neck sized only lapua cases and other neck sized only cases and after each firing the case changes dimensions just a bit until about 3 firings when the case gets hard to chamber and hard to extract.... well not hard really but sticky i should say.This i did not like, the case growing to a different size on each firing.My gun shot better groups if i minimally resized the entire case. this way all cases measure the same weather they are 1x or 3x fired.. i have shot groups with 1x and 4 time fired lapua .308 and all hit the same under 1" at 200 yards. good enough. If you minimally size the cases and your chamber does not expand the neck a bunch you can get many shots without annealing.Custom chamber and a custom or modded die set up for your round and you can get 60+ firings from 1 piece of brass no annealing. it has been done.. i posted a link to it under reloading section and possibly under annealing.</blockquote>