Thanks for all the helpful replies as I'm new at reloading and trying to learn as much as possible.

I started my first run of 223's today and did the FL resizing which went pretty fast and lubing wasn't a problem at all. I'll continue doing them that way instead of trying any shortcuts.

I'm gathering information on the annealing process for future use and have seen several mentions of the method described in post #17 above. That seems simple and cheap so I think I'll give it a try.