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I recently acquired what I thought was a Savage .250 bolt gun. So I got all items needed to reload a Savage .250 cartridge. It came with a box of ammo. Mounted A scope did my first shots, anyway since I was going to reload I found that the cases was forming a more prominent neck. Which I’m thinking possibly its a AI fireform brass now. Checked barrel it’s confirme this is a .250 AI. What load development should I start with? Try to check for .250 AI all I find is .250/300 loads are the same?

I don’t have $1400 to drop on an AMP machine so I have an annealeez machine. It’s a one torch set up. Based on almost every video I’ve seen with this machine the case should be in the flame for roughly 5 seconds. I have always done this but I just noticed something. With my Alpha brass I have what looks almost like a “burnt spot” on the neck. It does not do this with my Hornady brass or Federal brass. I did this in the dark and the cases just barely had a glow of red when they came out of the flame. Some people say no glow and some people say you want the glow. The brass was tumbled in rice for 3 hours before annealing. The last time I annealed these cases I did not see the dark blackish spot. Is there any way yall could look at these pictures and tell me if I just screwed up my cases? Please don’t annihilate me for my ignorance and lack of knowledge.

I have a new Redding Type S bushing die. My 308 loaded rounds measure 0.335 OD of the neck so I purchased a 0.334 and 0.333 bushing. When setting up the die I was able to achieve 0.001-0.0015 shoulder bump and the sized OD of the neck was 0.334. However that was with a case that had just been shot and lubed. Now I just annealed 300 pieces of brass and my sized OD of the neck is a consistent 0.332. Same lube, bushing, brass, etc. The only thing that changed is that the cases were just annealed and allowed to cool to room temp. So what makes the bushing size smaller on an annealed case versus non annealed case?