Not sure 5.56 cases benefit much from annealing my sense has been that it’s the larger cases that benefit. I have never annealed the cases mostly because I don’t have an annealer, though I’ve thought of it. SO FAR I have not had to full-length resize and have had about 6-8 reloads per case. Then I only neck size on reloading until the case walks enough to have to bump the shoulders. 20 Tactical, then moderately load to fire-form the case to the rifle. I use only Lake City brass, resize it to. 20 Tactical basically as an individually reloaded round each time. I bet DansSIGS uses the same brass for his rifle as that gives the best accuracy. Seems to make the recoil softer without necessarily losing speed. I’ve been using TiteGroup but am transitioning several calibres to Trail Boss. That’s not on the reloading tables for Super. I shoot a load that pushes a 130 gr plated bullet 1450 FPS. 38 Super for IPSC and haven’t had any issues with that brass other than losing some every match. I have never had much issue with pistol calibres but have never reloaded 9mm because so far it’s too cheap to spend the time reloading. I've told him that and he just shakes his head.īrass is funny stuff. I usually get around a dozen more reloads before I get a case failure. Because of this I quit counting how many times they're reloaded as it's not worth the trouble to me.Īs a side note, there's a guy who shoots Sporting Clays with a 20 gauge at the same place I do and he marks his hulls after 4 reloads, then discards them as unsafe. I've counted reloads up to around a dozen or so and then got tired of counting and continued to reload the cases. I reload brass until I get a brass failure like neck splits on handgun rounds and indications of incipient case head separation on high pressure rifle bottleneck cases. That's why we anneal bottleneck rifle case mouths. I would think that if the brass work hardened, then resizing/shooting would split the neck and that's something I do see on a regular basis. 45 ACP I've reloaded so many times the headstamp is hard to read and never seen the problem you're mentioning. I shoot at least 2 times a week, sometimes more. I've been reloading over 60 years for handgun and rifle brass and 50 years for shotgun. I’m curious what others have experienced. Never did this before but never had a problem. I’ve now starting counting the number of reloads. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea how many times this 9MM brass was reloaded. So sometime after reloading, not sure how long, maybe days, maybe weeks, but it was not immediate, the brass relaxed. The brass had been fired and resized enough times that it had become resistant to resizing. This occurred with only a couple of dozen cartridges out of a thousand, maybe 2%, but it was disturbing.Īfter months of investigation the cause was determined to be work hardened brass. So when the cartridge hit the feed ramp, the bullet, now loose, popped out of the ejection port and the powder was dumped. It reverted back to the fired dimensions. I had 9MM brass that looked perfect but after resizing and reloading, the brass relaxed and lost the resize. A recent series of failures forced me to rethink this. Until recently I always thought that cleaned brass that passed inspection (no cracks, dings, dents, etc.) was good brass for reloading. I’ve been reloading for about 30 years, but only for handgun calibers mainly 9MM and 45ACP, but also 40S&W, 38 Special and 357MAG. All brass cases are inspected for cracks, damaged rims, bent necks and corrosion before being packaged but it remains the purchaser/reloaders responsibility to inspect and ensure all brass cases are safe to use before reloading them.How many reloads do you get out of your brass? We process 10’s of thousands of cases monthly and thus, supply our used brass as is/voetstoots and cannot be held liable for any damage or malfunctions caused after being purchased. As the brass comes from training centers, we are confident that 90% or more are once fired as per information received from our suppliers at time of purchase DISCLAIMER: We source our pistol brass from training centers across South Africa and cannot guarantee that all the brass is once fired. Mixed head-stamps, unless otherwise statedĪll brass has been professionally Deprimed, Resized, Roll Sized And Tumbled – ready to seat primer, powder charge and seat bullet as is with no additional case prep required No berdan primers nor S&B NX cases with small flash-holes (unless reamed out to correct size) Good condition 9mm Para otherwise known as 9mm Luger, 9mm NATO, 9x19mm brass cases 9mmP Brass Cases Deprimed, Resized, Roll Sized And Tumbled x 500
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