Choosing 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.

The majority of calibers, especially if in common use, have sources of new cases available at affordable prices. For rarer calibers there are sometimes turned cases available which are expensive. They can also have problems with splitting, and generally have a shorter life than ordinary drawn cases.

Buying a used case can be a problem, although when using your own it has normally been reloaded more than once. In this case the reloader is careful to reject any which show any signs of potential failure if used again. Also, a record should be kept of how many times each has been fired, and it should then be discarded when it reaches that limit.

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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