Soonerpesek
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It was not my intention to say that it wasn't...............to be clear to both of you...............
Tracking Number of Loadings on Brass
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CQB45ACP
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Oh I know. Never questioned your intent.It was not my intention to say that it wasn't...............to be clear to both of you...............
Soonerpesek
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Now don't be screwing up and trusting me...................................
Hooda Thunkit
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Turns out that I started reading that thread, but lost track of it somehow.Shame on you!!! You obviously haven't been following my saga since last May/June.
Thanks for the update link.
CQB45ACP
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Best in small doses anyway. Very small.
Hooda Thunkit
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Funny thing, most of my kinfolk say that about me.
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.38 Spl and .45 ACP run at low pressures, low enough that primer pockets never seem to get loose, and if the case doesn't crack,
you can shoot them until the head stamp is hard to read. Sure, they would wear out eventually, but it will be a very long time.
you can shoot them until the head stamp is hard to read. Sure, they would wear out eventually, but it will be a very long time.
CQB45ACP
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I agree and I am skeptical I can in a real world environment of a public range where brass goes bouncing and spinning into oblivion, keep enough of it to even know how long it takes to do any real damage.
Sure I can see cases shortening and maybe the pockets tightening but that’s light years away from actually wearing em out.
But, nobody’s going to try any harder than I am
Soonerpesek
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ATTA BOY.......................!!!!...........................But, nobody’s going to try any harder than I am
Chuck R.
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I anneal pretty religiously and size with just a FL shoulder bump to ensure chambering.
The vast majority of my discarded rifle brass is due to loose primer pockets. So I've added checking primer pockets right after cleaning to avoid wasting time in brass prep.
With semi pistol rds I usually loose brass long before it wears out. I've still got some 45ACP brass hat was "liberated" when we converted over to the Beretta's and it's still going strong.
CQB45ACP
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How many times have they been used?
Chuck R.
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No idea really, but for a long time I used a Les Baer Concept V as my IDPA pistol, so I'd guesstimate hundreds of firings. Some I can barely read the headstamp on now.
Like I said I lose it 1st, during matches I very seldom manage to get MY brass back.
CQB45ACP
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Yes I understand but as I've said before I want to know how long they'll last and am trying hard to find out. Ive yet to confirm, but I think I recovered all but one this AM.
The fellow who wrote the Longevity article got 54 firings before he quit due to primer pockets being too shallow. I'm at 18ish so have quite a way to go.
denton
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I mark mine around the primer with a Sharpie. Factory ammunition and new brass get a silver circle, once fired gets black, twice fired gets brown, three times gets red. Orange can't be seen, and yellow isn't much better. So 4 times fired gets green, and 5 gets blue. Enough color survives tumbling to make identification easy.
After that, the brass gets annealed and trimmed, and starts over at silver.
This also makes it easy to identify my spent brass at the range.
After that, the brass gets annealed and trimmed, and starts over at silver.
This also makes it easy to identify my spent brass at the range.
Lee Q. Loader
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This was my thoughts, until I noticed my groups open up after about 8 to 10 loadings, (my best guess) on my brass. I loaded the new brass and groups were awesome.
I started to pay better attention while seating bullets and it's easy to tell the neck tension on the old brass is not as tight.
I'll anneal now after 4 loadings. That's why I need to track.
Hooda Thunkit
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It occurs to me that a fella could use a primer pocket standardizer , re-cutting the pocket to the correct depth, and using that brass longer.
If a fella really, really needed to, that is.
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CQB45ACP
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That was a shameful and shameless enticement to an addict such as myself--hello, I'm CQB and am such a fella and used K&M "correction tool" a couple of weeks ago.
So the question becomes how many times can one safely do such a thing? I haven't answered that one yet.
Hooda Thunkit
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But you, sir, are just the man to find out. I feel it in my bones.
Blue68f100
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To a point. You need to have a min thickness between the bottom of the pocket and the main case. Get too thin and this will blow out when fired, leaving no pocket at all.
Shovel
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Dollar store nail polish to mark cases for specific guns of the same caliber. Batch clean and load when I run out of loaded stock. Anneal when I get suspicious. Recycle batches when they start having issues. Key is to have so many different choices you won't have time to run out of cases.
CQB45ACP
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True generally and probably specifically with 45acp to which I was referring. But is it?
This article discusses how as brass is jammed toward the head, the primer pocket becomes more shallow because there is more brass.
How many times can I reload 45 ACP brass? – Florida Reloading
I’m not a risk taker when it comes to dangerous things so likely I’ll quit uniforming sooner rather than later.
Hooda Thunkit
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That's when a feller could jam in a shotgun primer....
thump_rrr
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45ACP is too common a caliber to put so much effort into.
I didn’t buy a single one of these.
I apply fingernail polish to my seated primers (and wipe off the excess) to mimic the sealing on military ammunition. I initially did this just for cosmetic purposes, but I eventually realized that I could use different colors to track how many times the case had been loaded.
First Loading: Black
Second: Red
Third: Blue
Fourth: Green
There are more colors available but I stopped here because After this, most of my cases are lost to the weeds.
First Loading: Black
Second: Red
Third: Blue
Fourth: Green
There are more colors available but I stopped here because After this, most of my cases are lost to the weeds.
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