Range Brass
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Range Brass
If your'e a brass scrounger like me you may have noticed that people are starting to leave brass laying around again. I have been picking up some good stuff lately. I just wish I owned a 40 S&W and a 223. I may have to buy a 40 just because there is so much brass laying around. I guess it's a sign that things are starting to return to normal. I can even find powder and primers for sale when I need them. Life is good when you come home with more brass than you took!
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Re: Range Brass
Yes - I'm reloading some range brass right now for plinking rounds. I ran into this decapper buster - a Berdan primed .45 ACP! Had to change the pin and move on.
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Re: Range Brass
JohndeFresno wrote:Yes - I'm reloading some range brass right now for plinking rounds. I ran into this decapper buster - a Berdan primed .45 ACP! Had to change the pin and move on.
Ouch --- i did that with the first batch of .223 i ever reloaded
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Re: Range Brass
Welcome aboard Pipeliner! I too am a brass scrounger (some here call it a more "amusing" name ), and proud of it. I collected a ton of .40 S&W brass for a number of years before picking up my first gun firing that round. Always good to plan ahead! Beside, it becomes trading fodder for brass you do need - but you already knew that!
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Re: Range Brass
Yes - Midway, for instance, now has every type of primer that I would use. That was not the case, just a short time ago. And, forgive me for not saying it - welcome to the fire!Pipeliner wrote:...I can even find powder and primers for sale when I need them. Life is good when you come home with more brass than you took!
Re: Range Brass
I pick up brass even if I dont load for it.Many a time I have traded somebody a bag of one
thing for somthing I could use.
thing for somthing I could use.
What in the wild world of sports is going on here
Re: Range Brass
Our club gets a lot of pre hunt shooters that leave the good brass laying when they leave. I never do find the really good stuff. Seems nobody ever leaves 444 or 45 Colt stuff.
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Re: Range Brass
You still have to hunt around a bit to find more than the odd box of .357 Mag factory loads, but MidwayUsa had enough Sellier & Belliot to make buying some worthwhile (I hate to sight in a gun and wind up with only a couple dozen of that factory load that will shoot right on, before I have to re-sight in for a different brand/load.)
Of course reloading opens up the possibility of making & shooting hundreds, or even thousands of rounds of the SAME load over several years, without having to look around at store after store for just that one loading.
Of course reloading opens up the possibility of making & shooting hundreds, or even thousands of rounds of the SAME load over several years, without having to look around at store after store for just that one loading.
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