fire once brass - disqualify rate?

[nidm]

new into reloading.

I picked ~60 of my own fire-once brass from range. cleaned, deprimed and resized. I exam all of them for crack and then used a brass gauge to measure. to my surprise, all of them look fine and ready for reload.

Is it normal? thanks

[d33pt]

for once fired, 100% is normal.

[pisarski]

yes it is what cal is it

[nidm]

thanks for the confirmation.

btw, i used pmc brass

[micro911]

I don't know your location, but if you are local to me in southern California, I could give you some good once fired brass. I have 223, 308, 45, 38 Special brass. I have access for tons of 9mm brass but I do not reload that caliber.

[nidm]

I don't know your location, but if you are local to me in southern California, I could give you some good once fired brass. I have 223, 308, 45, 38 Special brass. I have access for tons of 9mm brass but I do not reload that caliber.

I am in San Francisco area. Appreciate your offer very much. just a bit too far.

[J-cat]

What cal?

[jdmacl]

That is the beauty of reloading, you can use them over, and over, and over...

[rsrocket1]

With rifle brass, depending on how hard you are pushing the reloads, you should get 6-10 reloads on a case. With straight walled pistol brass, you can usually shoot 'em till you lose 'em. Like others, I have some 45ACP brass that have so many loads through them that you can't read the headstamps any more.

With well worn bottleneck rifle cases, check near the base for a bright ring (case head has stretched too much and is about to separate) and use a paper clip to feel if a groove is starting to form there.

With pistol rounds, check for cracks or splits at the mouth.

Once fired rounds ought to be just about as good as new.

[J-cat]

It really depends on the caliber, and the manufacturer, and how you resize them. I have gotten 35 reloads out of FC9mm and 20 out of FGMM brass.

[Dragginpanda]

new into reloading.

I picked ~60 of my own fire-once brass from range. cleaned, deprimed and resized. I exam all of them for crack and then used a brass gauge to measure. to my surprise, all of them look fine and ready for reload.

Is it normal? thanks

Even reloaded brass does this.

[bazineta]

It's unusual for once-fired not to be just fine. Exception can be bottlenecked brass fired from an MG, where the headspacing can be very generous, but even then, typically it's not a problem.