reloading ????

[Guest GLOCKGUY]

how many times can you reload your used brass? i was told no more then 3 times. is this true?

[Guest price g]

I practice alot with 115 gr. 9mm. So I load alot of it. You can't load 115 to light or you won't make minimum power factor. With that being said, I have some cases that have been reloaded over 5 times. Just inspect them well.

[Im Neero]

What caliber? A low pressure round like .45 ACP can be rounded 8 times, or even more, while I wouldn't recommend loading .308 more than about 3 times.

[DWARREN123]

Depends on many things. Max load, is the brass high quality, full or neck resize, crimp and damage from chambering, extraction and ejection.

[Guest Grout]

What caliber? A low pressure round like .45 ACP can be rounded 8 times, or even more, while I wouldn't recommend loading .308 more than about 3 times.

+1,I load .45 ACP and .38 SPL until it splits.

[Guest sling]

Its going to depend on what ya shoot and the pressures involved with it. Rifle brass isnt going to last as long as handgun brass due to the fact of pressure is so much greater with rifle. Rifle, i'll typically run brass through 4 - 5 times with my .223. Handgun...bah. Till the neck splits. I have a lot of 9mm remington brass i've reloaded over 12 times! Its still goin strong. I'd suspect nickel plated will split sooner.

[Guest GLOCKGUY]

im shooting .45 GAPS

[DWARREN123]

Just check it each time after cleaning and then again after resizing/depriming and opening up the case mouth. Each operation may show a defective case.

[Guest ordonnanzgewehr]

With handgun brass look for split case mouths.

Rifle cases become dangerous when head seperation occours. The shiny ring that forms near the base (head) of the case is caused by the brass stretching in that area. This is the area, if you'd look at a cross section, where the thicker brass wall of the head transitions to the thinner, more elastic part of the case. An internal groove will form in this area that can be felt with a little tool that you can make yourself by straightening out a paper clip and bending a tiny hook at the end. Insert the tool hook first into the case and use the hook to feel for the presense of the groove. If there is none you're good to go for another re-load. If you do feel it think about recycling (brass metal is much too valuable to throw away these days) or make some low pressure plinking rounds. Ten grains of Unique will propel any bullet down the bore. IMR 4895 is also sutible for reduced loads. Happy re-loading!

[Guest GregRN]

+1,I load .45 ACP and .38 SPL until it splits.

Since I'm ignorant on reloading, do you ever fear any damage to your gun when the case splits?

[Guest sling]

Nope. Handgun cartridge pressures are no where near as high as a rifle cartridge.

Now, if a rifle cartridge split while i was shooting it...yeah someone would be hurtin.\

Example: A 55 gr .223 can have pressures up to 52,000 PSI:eek:

Where as a 9mm is going for around 32600 PSI

and the mighty 45 scaling at the low end of 19,000 PSI