Thread: Notching cases to keep track of firings?

Used to do this years ago. Ended up a mess but my fault for not being methodical. Gets a bit messy if you have a cartridge that can survive eg 10 loadings or more.

Nowadays for my sets of F Class cases they are each engraved with an individual number 1-100. It's not hard to do.
I run a label sheet inside the lid of their 100 MTM round boxes and mark off each time they are reloaded 1,2 3 and so on.
Also useful on the range if you get a totally unexplained shot result. I note the case number and give it a good going over when home.

For my run of the mill stuff - sporting 223 and 308 I don't serial number them. Too hard on a small case like the 223 at any rate and not worth the effort.
I now anneal and FLS each time. I store them in Sistema plastic boxes with labels on the boxes. One box for annealed and FLS'd cases ready to load. I have a label inside the box telling me the number of times reloaded and fired. Another box for the fired cases. Once I process all the fired cases from that box they go in the other box and I update the times fired label in that box.

In days gone by used to use old ice-cream plastic containers or large margarine containers. The Sistema are much better with good clip lids that don't empty their contents if tipped over.
I also keep a track of the number of times loaded in my Loading Log Book.