Equipment & Gear > Guns and Ammo
Tracking how many times you've reloaded brass
high country:
you can also buy time by anealing the necks, but by then you are needing to trim and ream/turn the necks. kinda like you would expect, the more horsepower, the higher the maintainence
JackOfAllTrades:
--- Quote ---22-250 that has only been reloaded twice and I can see faint signs of cracks so I set them aside
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Any bottle neck cartridge that will push a projectile more than 3,000fps is something that needs particular attention and will have shortened case life. The 22-250 will surpass 4,000fps with lighter bullets. Larger pressures (53,000cup in this case), are developed to get those starting velocities. Start a bucket of scrap brass and take those cracked cases to the metal recycler. All bottle neck cases can crack at the neck. Warm loadings or incorrectly head spaced cartridges/chambers can crack brass at the shoulder or neck. Belted magnum bottle neck cases can and do crack there normally but can also crack just forward of the belt even if properly head spaced. Worn out or hot loaded pistol cartridges will usually crack at the neck.
-Steve
woodswalker:
there is a batch of 43 32 Winchester special cases that has been loaded 28 times...were 50 about 25 years ago...and some military Match 30-06 cases that are on the 18th trip around and still have 41/50.
mazama:
For my hunting loads fireformed and then loaded and set aside for hunting.Pistol new brass for special loads,target i don't cout firings,wait till large coffee can is full then reload again.Rifle trim after first firing then reload till they won't fit gun.