I got TFS No. 234 Monday, and read it all, including Tom Acheson's article on case neck tension.             Wednesday I went to the Trail Glades Range in Miami. There was a new serious benchrest shooter there; there have been less than half a dozen serious benchrest shooters there, when I was there, in the past 14 years.             A serious benchrest shooter is easily identified; he has a rifle that others stop to look at, a powder measure, and an arbor press. This guy was shooting a .20/223, sort of a .204 Ruger.             An hour into shooting he came over, looked at my rifle and lead bullets, and began to talk about neck tension and accuracy. He didn't say “neck tension”, but he described the varying force required to neck size, to expand necks and to seat bullets. He explained about the need for exactly equal case lengths, for turning necks, for measuring turned necks and segregating cases by neck thickness variation-or discarding nonconforming cases. He explained about his equipment for trimming, turning and measuring case necks, the perils of the “doughnut”, what work hardening is, annealing and his annealing machine.             He told about the better benchrest shooters and the 1000 yard guys, how they were absolutely and universally convinced that necks were crucial, and that they annealed after every firing. He said that he sometimes went as many as three to five firings between annealings, but intimated that annealing every time was best. This accompanied by recurring explanations of work hardening, in case I'd forgotten.             Now this guy was sincere, he had the gun/s and equipment indicating that he was serious and knowledgeable, and he's a fiery-eyed zealot/proselytizer about neck tension.             The man probably said a lot more, but being deaf as a haddock I missed it. This was not a discussion, questions were not allowed, it was a sermon.             My position on neck tension is that I throw out any case with unusual force required to size, expand necks or seat bullets. I keep cases together by lot, starting with ~120, shoot them in order so each is fired ~ the same number of times, and anneal all when the first neck splits. My cases last a long time, many firings.             I don't have an opinion on neck tension vs. accuracy; the TFS has articles with conflicting conclusions. But I now know someone else with a firm opinion.