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How many times can you re-use brass ? is it differant for psitol than it is for rifle? What about the brass I have bean picking up off the range ( I do not know how many times it has bean fired) doe that matter ?
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24th, 2009 12:58 PM |
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I try to pickup only once fired brass at the range. Any that has been reloaded was probably left there for a reason. Such as split necks or incipient head separation.
With mild loads, annealling when appropriate and not over working, brass can last a very long time. Perhaps more than 30 times.
Pistol brass lasts a long, long, long time.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24th, 2009 08:25 PM |
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I reload most cases untill the case neck splits. A split case neck is not even noticed most of the time. My experiance is that I never notice it. I reload to middle of the road pressure levels normally. If I push the envelope, I use new or once fired brass. I seldom load that high a level, though. I have found that a lower level load is usually most accurate.
I have even reloaded Wolf steel 45 ACP cases. I was picking up brass at the range and noticed that Wolf 45 steel cases were boxer primed. I decided to give reloading steel cases a try. I thought that if it worked, I would have some ammo that I could shoot anywhere and not feel guilty about not picking up my brass. I took them home, resized and deprimed them and put them in the tumbler. After cleaning I loaded them up. I loaded them to a standard load I use. They fired, cycled and grouped well. I policed the cases up and reloaded them again. No problems. On the third reload (4th firing) I had a few split cases.
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