Thread: First crack at reloading

Originally Posted by muka88

Ill have a try on the weekend.
Just brought lee quick trim.
Need it eventually in any case i suppose.

How meny times approx can you reload brass with a warmish load?

There is no exact science on that. Watch for case necks and shoulders cracking(sometimes the crack can be very slim and hard to spot) and case head separation. One way to check for case head separation is to unfold a paper clip and use the tip to drag lightly along the inside of the brass and if you feel the brass hit any line or dip on the interior case wall the brass is probably headed for case head separation. Also sometimes a faint ring around the brass will be apparent. In time too, brass gets dinged on ejection or hitting the ground or scratched. And then at some point after all this multiple times of resizing, trimming, getting fired in a gun and all that, brass just wears out. If it doesn't look right it probably is not, so then it goes in the recycle bucket.

A general rule of thumb is five to ten times for a case fired in a semi auto and 10-20 times for a case in a bolt gun.

Yes you can anneal your brass but you can get that wrong and it is time consuming. I did the math on it in time and money and right now I don't think it would benefit me.