Friday, May 24, 2013

How To Get The Best Reloading Brass

By Jon Himler


Getting a good supply of reloading brass is something that can challenge reloaders. Buying complete loaded rounds and discharging them to get the cases can be very costly. If you want to use the cases to make rare cartridges, and do not have a firearm which takes the original caliber, then it is senseless.

There are sources of new cases which can supply most of the commonly required calibers. In some cases these are turned, which makes them extremely expensive, but is unavoidable for certain rare calibers. These cases have the advantage that they are usually of good quality, although when turned they can be prone to splitting.

Used cases may be unreliable, although reloaders are mostly dealing with cases that have been fired several times. Careful reloaders inspect the cases and quickly reject those that show any dangerous signs of pressure or splitting. It is also important to keep track of the number of uses and discard brass when a practical limit is reached.

There are some fired cases available for purchase. Here there would still be the need to inspect teach one, and there might be a high percentage of discards, increasing average cost. Also, you can never be sure of how many times it has been fired and the situation could become dangerous.

First prize would be a reliable source of good cases which have only been used once. While it would still be necessary to inspect the, it should not be necessary to discard many. This option would be limited to the commoner calibers.

When it comes to reloading brass, once-fired cases would normally be preferred because of lower costs and more consistent quality, with new cases as the second choice. This might be sufficient for your needs. For those who love the rare calibers, turned cases might be necessary.




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