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Post by springfieldxdm on Oct 1, 2014 19:35:26 GMT -5
I have never tracked how many reloads I have on .223 brass. Typically all of my pickups come from a police range and I can pretty much assume all are once fired with 90% having a crimped primer pocket. Once I use my reloads that have just been fired twice I place them in the bucket and start over with new once fired. Due to extreme competition at the range now with a couple of guys who sneak in to sell the brass, I will soon be dipping into my extra buckets. How do you segregate the brass ? Do you guys even worry about it? Pistol stuff I load until it splits, was thinking of doing the same to this .223. It's not competition or self defense ammo, only mild plinking ammo. What do you guys do to mark the number of times reloaded or do you bother? BTW This is to be fired in multiple different ar platforms.
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dangun
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Post by dangun on Oct 1, 2014 21:47:32 GMT -5
XDM I keep track of how many times they are reloaded. I have several buckets labeled to that I know where they cam from and write that on the load info label. Since your are using in several ar platforms you are most likely full sizing every load. That put allot of stress on the brass. That will reduce the number of times they can be reloaded before they have to be annealed. Once annealed the count resets. Normally I get 4 or 5 reloads before they are annealed. I know that some others will claim higher number before annealing but why stress the brass that much? I have some .223 brass that have been reloaded 50 or 60 times with annealing every 4th time loaded. Every once in a while one or two will separate at the shoulder but they really didn't owe me anything so loosing a few here and there is not an issue.
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