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Don't really keep track but I'd guess average between 9mm, 10mm, and 45 ACP is about 12 or so. .223 perhaps 8-10 and the 375 H&H is about the same as .223.
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Shrinkmd
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How much Bullseye were you using? I am planning on making up a larger batch of 45acp 230 gr LRN with Bullseye, and I wanted to get close to the factory load, maybe 4.7 or 4.8 gr of Bullseye. Do you think those would still last a good long time?
50calshooter
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Laupa 7.62x54R 26 times and counting lost 1 out of 20 my fault. Never anealed, just neck sized and trimed. Med vel. loads.
6X44BR brass, fired in custom tight necked chamber. One batch was fired over 100 times, with 1 full lenght sizing and 1 nech anealing during this period. If recall is correct there was 1 split neck during this time. The brass had little expansion since the chamber was minimum in all dimensions. Primer pockets were still tight also. Cases formed from Remington BR brass.
MikeS.
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Shrinkmd asked;
"How much Bullseye were you using? I am planning on making up a larger batch of 45acp 230 gr LRN with Bullseye, and I wanted to get close to the factory load, maybe 4.7 or 4.8 gr of Bullseye. Do you think those would still last a good long time?"
I think so, I've used 4.8 of BE with that bullet and have loaded the same cases at least 15 times and not had a single problem.
The .45 is a low pressure round.
"How much Bullseye were you using? I am planning on making up a larger batch of 45acp 230 gr LRN with Bullseye, and I wanted to get close to the factory load, maybe 4.7 or 4.8 gr of Bullseye. Do you think those would still last a good long time?"
I think so, I've used 4.8 of BE with that bullet and have loaded the same cases at least 15 times and not had a single problem.
The .45 is a low pressure round.
oneounceload
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The best reloading amounts I have gotten were for an XP-100 in 7mmBR - over 15 loads (trimmed when needed) and still going strong
achildofthesky
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I have been durability testing AMERC 44 magnum brass for better than a year. A fellow gave me 100 and after 12 loadings I still have most of them. I don't trim and loads are from mild plinker to stout max stuff. I have lost about 10% to cracks and a few to oopsies with setting up the dies. Primer pockets are still very nice and tight. All with a HEAVY crimp for use in my Marlin 1894. I have lots of other Win & RP brass but the brass no one else wants works great for my purposes. I am going to make a small batch of the S&B brass plated steel (I cull all S&B from my brass sales) to try in my Beretta. The plating is fairly heavy and it cleans up very well.
Shrinkmd
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I am looking forward to that! How many rounds does it take to wear out a 1911?
jcwit
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I've got 5 cases of Lake City .223 brass that has been reloaded more than 50 times and is still be reloaded. These are shot in a modified Remington 700 VLS.
I started reloading in 1979 or 1980. I started out with maybe 100 38 special cases I got by not returning the reloads I was shooting.
I went to the range nearly every week for a year or so and shot 50-100 reloads made from those cases. That would tend to indicate they were shot perhaps 30 times or more just in that time frame.
Along the way I started scrounging brass. I now have a 5 gallon bucket of tumbled 38 special brass. I would bet many of those original cases are in the bucket and have been reloaded many more times along the way.
I bet some have 50 reloads on them.
Relatively light target type loads.
Roccobro
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Haha!
I love this place!
Justin
R.W.Dale
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My personal record is a batch of 7.62x39 brass that the next loading will be number 11
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