So if you're shooting 200 rounds, you're losing 20?Indeed
I lose perhaps 10% at each trip to the range (for example, cases landing ahead of firing line cannot be retrieved) so every one I can salvage isn’t brass, but gold.
That seems like a pretty reasonable ratio to me...but then, I attend Lost Brass matches where I'm losing 200-300 cases in a day.
For 9mm, I sort my brass and there are several headstamps which I don't let get pass cleaning, much less resizing...R-P, FM, IMT, Ammoland all end up given to fellow shooters who want to mess with them. Any case that won't easily resize and case guage usually gets recylcled, because I wouldn't inflect them on another shooter. Part of my attitude might be that I have several 5 gallon buckets of 9mm brass...to the point where I'm trading them for SPP