quenching

Here is a rail road track anvil I milled flat and it milled flat a little too easy. The Rockwell hardness was about a 52 or 53, everytime I touched it with a hammer it dented, that's why I milled it because the surface was rough. This winter I heated it up, quenched and tempered it. Now the Rc...

Hello, I was reading through some reloading threads here on THR. One thing that came up a few times that has me scratching my head is why some folks would quench their cases before reloading them. I get that, by annealing, you are undoing the effects of what is essentially cold working the...