45 ACP reloading
stonecold
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 07:00 (2341 days ago)
I have been loading up several hundred 45 ACP on my Dillion Square Deal this morning. Whoever came up with the idea of 45 ACP with small pistol primer pockets should be severely flogged. I guess I picked up some at the range sometime and they are mixed in with others at about 1 in 100. Now just sorting them out and throwing them away when found.
For awhile I was separating them and
Jim Taylor
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 07:08 (2341 days ago) @ stonecold
using them for light charge practice reloads. That became a pain so I shot them and let them lay where they fell. If I run across any small primer stuff during my sorting brass, I now toss them in my "junk brass" barrel and save them for when I go to the scrapyard. I trade them in .. along with whatever other scrap i have ... for lead to cast more bullets.
Have about 1100 pieces of that small primer stuff
Tim Pence
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 10:23 (2341 days ago) @ Jim Taylor
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just change your primer unit to seat small primers.
Gary Reeder
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 11:37 (2341 days ago) @ Tim Pence
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LESSON LEARNED?
JT
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 07:53 (2341 days ago) @ stonecold
AVOID PICKING UP RANGE BRASS. NEW STARLINE BRASS IS SO AVAILABLE AND SO RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE. ALSO HOW DOES ONE KNOW WHAT RANGE BRASS HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO PRESSURE WISE?
I’m staying outta this!
WB
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 08:36 (2341 days ago) @ JT
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Agree with JT
Alcorn
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 18:26 (2339 days ago) @ WB
Starline brass is relatively cheap and of good quality.
brass
stonecold
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 09:04 (2341 days ago) @ JT
Yes, I know that is right. But John, can you honestly tell me you never have picked up brass at a range and used it? I guess at nearly 80 I have to learn some lessons over and over.
YES AT 81 I HAVE NEVER PICKED UP
JT
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 11:17 (2341 days ago) @ stonecold
SOMEONE ELSE'S BRASS.
demon brass
Sunny
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 08:03 (2341 days ago) @ stonecold
I know the anticipation factor here, a 44 mag case that appears out of the blue while speed loading some "ONCE fired by ME" 45 LC brass you just bought from someone you thought could of at least SORTED brass "they shot them selves", More than twice in the first hundred, Really brings things to a screeching halt in your head. What's worse is when you THINK rather than stop and sort the remaining 500 you convince yourself I will just pay more attention
I set those small primer pocket brass aside and when I get a
Gary Reeder
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 11:36 (2341 days ago) @ stonecold
couple hundred I switch the primer unit on one of my Dillons and reload them with the small primers. Most seem to be Federal and were the factory non lead loads and non mercuric primers. I hate it when gun or ammo companies bow down to the non lead assholes like those in California.
I mainly pick up our fired brass here in the shop
Gary Reeder
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 13:12 (2340 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
we shoot a lot of ammo every week and on minor repair jobs we have the customer furnish a box of ammo with his gun and from time to time the ammo people bring in for the work on their guns is the Federal small primer 45. Every Wednesday and Saturday or Sunday when I do the bluing I tumble all the brass to weed out any junk brass like the aluminum cases and military brass with the Berdan primer, plus if I run across a case that has a defect I can junk that one.
When I am loading 45 on one of my Dillons as I pick up a piece of 45 brass to put it in the press to size, I glance at the base of the case and the small primer cases are easy to spot as are the military brass with the crimped in primers. When I get one of these I pitch them in small boxes to get them out of the way. it only takes an extra second or two to spot the small primer brass or the military brass. Here a while back I bought 70,000 rounds of once fired 45 ACP brass from a police range dealer. They were in a military 20mm ammo case that was full. All were once fired by police qualifying so those I know are OK.
We don't have a range here in Flagstaff so any brass I pick up is from ammo I shot. If I am testing some new loads on the weekend I drive out to the boonies with my truck, lay a tarp down and do my shooting. Most of the brass lands on the tarp so no problem gathering it up.
I can understand John's reluctance to use picked up brass. i won't pick up brass that is lying around the cinder pits where i shoot and there are thousands of rounds of mostly 9mm and 40 S&W brass lying everywhere, plus a lot of 12 gauge shotgun hulls. If a person wanted to spend an hour picking up spend brass he could get easily a thousand rounds of 9 and 40 brass.
Now WB would be in heaven if he saw some of the cinder pits here and the brass lying everywhere. He would be thinking "I will save 1¢ if I pick up that 40 S&W brass, even if it is old and turned brown with age and the weather. So I will leave the brass where it lies in case he wants to take a trip to Flag one day.