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Annealing--how appealing?
As you resize the brass, reloading it over and over, the brass "work-hardens" as they call it, which means it gets brittle and eventually splits.
Only neck-sizing the brass avoids most of the work-hardening.
IMX, by the time rifle brass has begun to split, indicating that annealing might be a good idea, it is old enough to be suspect for that reason and rather than going to the trouble of annealing it I recycle that whole lot of cases, and buy new brass.
An article years ago in the American Rifleman (sorry, can't cite number nor year) said that when brass gets to voting age it's time for new brass. That was back when voting age was 21.
With target pistol brass it's different: I just keep reloading each case until that case splits or gets lost.
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