Hi Greyhawk-n-Deacon
When I posted to this before, I completely forgot my quick and dirty solution of using 44-40 brass, formed to 45 Colt. After carefully seizing/expanding the first time, you get a real funny looking round until fired the first time. Then it works a treat.
I am a Bugle Blowing Fan of Annealing. ALL of my rifles are straight wall pistol cases. I fail to understand why folk persist with Dash Caliber cartridges that require a lucky rabbits foot hung on the loading press for success (So there!! Cliff)
I do not however, recommend annealing for handguns. Annealed cases can be a real GROAN to eject from Revolvers. Although some revolvers Blow-By enough to make extraction tough anyway. Blow-By is not the problem in Handguns that it is in Rifles.
I also forgot to mention the "other" problem with straight action Rifles. Straight action rifles such as the Marlin, the '92 and the Lightning will foul the entire action from Blow-By.
Annealing has in fact, taken a write-off back of the Safe clunker and turned it into one of my favorite flavors. Yes. undoubtedly, Annealing is Skull Numbing Boring but is not something you have to do every day and is MORE than worth the effort. Burma Shave
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