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[dung8604]

Hey guys in your opinion, is it better to reload a batch of brass, like 100-150, a few times over, or to go through an entire stash, like 1000 or so one time before reloading the brass for the second time?

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[XDRoX]

For me, I don't like to keep track of brass. When I need some ammo I simply grab a hand full of brass and reload it. After I shoot it at the range I pick up what's on the ground, mostly mine, but I'm sure others as well, I pick up whatever is there. Take that home and throw it in the bucket.

For pistol it doesn't really matter so this is what I do. For rifle, yes it's best to keep track.

[BigBronco]

To each his own. I like to fill multiple ammo cans. come range time I just grab ammo cans and go.

[Swagman00]

50 to 100 at a time for me. Mixed brass for starting to medium loads, matched brass for upper (if any).

[emptybottle151]

The only brass I keep track of is if I've swaged it or not. I also separate military brass from commercial, thats about it.

[dung8604]

Yeah I should have clarified I am reloading 223, so I want to pay attention to how many times I've reloaded a case. I am sorting commercial vs military brass, but haven't decided yet if I'm going to keep them separate when it comes time to reload.

Thanks for the opinions, keep them coming, please, with the why's and why nots of your process.

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[74c5]

Winter: process brass when unable to shoot. Attempt to have more than enough to shoot that year.

Non-winter: load and shoot.

repeat.

[emptybottle151]

Depends on how much prep work you want to do and how much brass you have. For me I will trim all commercial brass, I will also trim all military brass that I have previously swaged and reloaded. But if I find new military brass that need to be swaged & trimmed I throw in in the reserve bucket. As of now I have 1k of commercial/prepped military brass that I go through regardless of reload count and I have 500 or so of reserve brass for when I crack/lose my commercial/reloaded military brass. I also have a 1k steel case to reload (some boxer primer) for when the zombies come. Thats just my list of priority of brass that I use 1)commercial 2)prepped mil 3)un-prep mil and finally steel case.

[Revoman]

No matter what I reload, I do it in smaller batches just in case there is any issues with the components, or how I loaded them. Although I follow my own strict protocol, mistakes can still happen. I prefer to pull a couple hundred than a couple thousand if the need arises. Granted it's extremely rare, but I have pulled up to 50 once that I thought there was a problem (there wasn't) and it wasn't fun enough for me to do it again.

Cautious, perhaps, lesson learned, definitely.

Just my way.

[Enfield47]

I have been keeping my Federal and LC brass separate. I'm not sure how much of a difference there is between the cases though since I got both head stamps from boxes marked as Federal. Both were annealed, crimped and had to be swaged. Anywho, I have been reusing the same brass for my reloads before shooting more factory ammo. I have about 200 cases that I figure I will reuse until they start to split. It also helps me keep track of the cases I have swaged. Short of removing the crimp with a Philips head I can't tell which cases have been swaged and which ones haven't because that crimp ring remains after swaging.

[Robert Snyder]

This is what I have learned the Hard Way! I sat down and decided to load 100 rds only to find out that when I weighed them something was wrong as there were large fluctuations, since I load for 1000 yards and beyond all of my loads for 308 + 300 WM are at the max, so I had to pull it all apart as I do not like the idea of my rifles coming apart that close to my face! Sure enough my charges were not the same as I tend to loose my attention loading large lots and trusting my scales to much. Both of my old scales are gone and have been replaced. Now I load in smaller batches and devote more attention to each case and it has proved positively that I made the right choice as well as not leaving my powder in the measure and putting it back in it's container so I load the same powder.