Greetings,
I am cheap, but not stupid
I scrounge the brass buckets at the range and every time I pull out full rounds in different calibers, brands, handloads, etc.
If it is steel cased and everything is fine, I shoot them. I know they are almost 100% not reloads and people dropped them on the ground and they got picked up.
Most of the time, the primer has been hit and there was no discharge. Youpi! Free bullet.
Often I know it is a reload. I dissassemble the round and keep everything except the powder. A different primer than mines in a 45ACP or 9MM will not matter much in pressure difference with my half-strenght loads.
Sometimes I hit the jackpot and I get premium bullets for rifle round or magnum big bore handgun.
Soooooooooo..... Today I picked up a bunch of ammo to dissassemble I picked up in the last weeks... and surprise!!!!!!
I dissassembled a reload (it was a hard cast lead bullet) and found through the powder 4 (yes 4!!!!!) primers non-fired ready to go, no dent in it inside the case. :banghead:
*** the guy who reloaded those was thinking? Anyone knows of a new dum-dum-like procedure I never heard of?
Thank you
I am cheap, but not stupid
I scrounge the brass buckets at the range and every time I pull out full rounds in different calibers, brands, handloads, etc.
If it is steel cased and everything is fine, I shoot them. I know they are almost 100% not reloads and people dropped them on the ground and they got picked up.
Most of the time, the primer has been hit and there was no discharge. Youpi! Free bullet.
Often I know it is a reload. I dissassemble the round and keep everything except the powder. A different primer than mines in a 45ACP or 9MM will not matter much in pressure difference with my half-strenght loads.
Sometimes I hit the jackpot and I get premium bullets for rifle round or magnum big bore handgun.
Soooooooooo..... Today I picked up a bunch of ammo to dissassemble I picked up in the last weeks... and surprise!!!!!!
I dissassembled a reload (it was a hard cast lead bullet) and found through the powder 4 (yes 4!!!!!) primers non-fired ready to go, no dent in it inside the case. :banghead:
*** the guy who reloaded those was thinking? Anyone knows of a new dum-dum-like procedure I never heard of?
Thank you