Thread: Fire count on brass matter much?

Hey all I may answer my own question but just wanting some general feedback.

I have a tikka 6.5x55 that is on 4th round of firing of some RWS brass that was from new. I am running it pretty close to pressure about 1.5gr back from where I saw signs. I haven’t annealed it at all.

I was cleaning out and managed to find a box of 30 or so brass that I had reloaded it could be 2x fired or 3x fired I’m not sure.

I could maybe measure length as I haven’t trimmed to see if correlates to some of this 3x I have here.

I haven’t changed any of my load data from 2-3x firing anyway - didn’t change results at all.

Would annealing it all be helpful or does the 1 cycle difference not matter much.?

Lastly how many firings should I expect out of this brass / caliber?

Cheers