Using brass from the range?

[Arkie]

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[zymurgy]

Canadian Corner

I love the thrill, the frisson of excitement, when I pick up oddball brass at the pistol range. Remember, this is in Canada...the .25 and .32 bad boys (that only fit in "prohibited" pistols) the so far little seen .45GAP, the .38 Super - and I don't reload any of them...collect them and give 'em to an almost professional reloader up-Island

 

[Searcher1911]

I have used range brass for years. With target load I see no problem.

 

[mbott]

reload .40 with scrounged brass NEVER AGAIN

Like another post said, the .40 brass is from mainly unsupported chambers and has what I call an incipient bulge at the head of the case. The Glocks are the worst.

My son and I shoot and reload both 9mm and .40 and my hot nine mm Power Pistol load is his target 40 S & W power pistol load. So when he swaps out my powdermeasure to his .40 tool head everything works fine when I get it back.

Until he started getting what I call out of battery discharges that damage his gun. He too is shooting a not fully supported chamber gun. He now buys new .40 ammo and instead of ME getting the CZ 40 I wanted (fully supported chamber) I got a .45 which Ii can reload with scrounged brass,and HAVE been since '64 without worry

I wont reload .40. PERIOD

Yodar

Yodar,

You'll find that any of the CZ chambers in .40 (CZ 75B, CZ 40P, CZ100, CZ 40B) support the case extremely well. A lot of times I can fit a fired case from a CZ in a .40 case guage without resizing. Try that with a .40 case fired from a Glock.

I reload 40 all the time, as long as I know as I know the guns the case has been through .... like mine.

--
Mike

 

[Wolfen]

lee n. field

Please update on your statement - "I discard anything that's been run through a Glock".

My son has a 23 and I carry a 21. I never use lead bullets in either as the Glock's rifling just doesn't like it. This I know but I haven't heard / read anything, until now, about not using Glock fired brass. Please tell me why.

Thanks

 

[yodar]

discard glock brass

Glocks in .40 fire from an unsupported chamber. I cannot speak with authority on any other calibers. But the sign of that unsupported chamber is a perceptible bulge in the base of the case that normal resising does NOT eliminate unless you have an expensive die

When that bulge is driven back to normal dimensions the brass at that point is STILL fundamentally weaker than anywhere else on the case

I saw too many failures of such brass amongst .40 reloaders shooting guns with similarly unsupported chambers.

A CZ 40 has a fully supported chamber. THAT was the .40 piece I was gonna get till I wised up and slected the idiot-proof-to-reload-45 acp

Yodar

 

[madmike]

A CZ 40 has a fully supported chamber. THAT was the .40 piece I was gonna get till I wised up and slected the idiot-proof-to-reload-45 acp

Unless you wind up with a .40 case inside a .45 case and don't see it. That's happened.

 

[2sigs]

we drive by the range on the way home and if the weather is nice we all search for brass, my 7yr old daughter loves it she loads daddys hat!

It's a family thing! quality time spent scrounging LOL

 

[madmike]

I give mine a penny a case for good cases. They're lower to the ground and have good eyes. Genetically perfect scroungers. I think we evolved that way on purpose.