Im curious....223 brass is available on the net and a thousand other places for 10 cents each "once fired" or less....Ive only got one .223 and a 5 gallon bucket full of once fired brass...why did you buy new?
If you use it on a range..you may get most of it back...but get out in the weeds...and the recovery rate goes way the hell down.
They were there and handy, will probably buy 1000 once fired for $79 or so + shipping. Most places I see online are out of lower priced new brass, they have the $60+ / 100 available but that's about it. I have a brass catcher that velcros on the AR's, works good if it's lined up right. I also have a metal detector I use to find brass in the grass around where I shoot, I get pretty good recovery on my yard range. I can set it to reject steel and find brass, strong signal on brass cartridges above the ground, darn the
22LR! This year we found our brass plus a mercury dime.RogerN
Maybe. Unless he is trying to tune a load to shoot best in a particular firearm. Then the slight extra cost may be worth it.
Enjoy, DoN.
Just my everyday working brass.
I keep between 200 and 10,000 already loaded rounds (per caliber) in another couple cabinets in plastic ammo boxes...generally 50-100 rd boxes. Stuff like 40-65 Winchester and 45-70 are in 50 packs as I dont shoot it very often. Then there is the "ready" ammo in magazines, speed loaders etc etc in my webgear, range boxes, and so on.
The blue bins (4) above the reloading bench are 357, 45ACP, 41 Mag and
44 mag, the most common calibers I shoot regularly. Ive got a 5 gal bucket topped up with 9mm for plinking ammo. While I shoot in a flat hard packed empty shooting position...I still loose some of the self loaders..but tend to come home with range pickups which mostly keeps me in the positive
I just picked up some more for $0.28 a round.
Steel case isn't that hard to deal with really. I reload both brass and steel.
Yesterday I received my order for a Hornady case activated powder drop, finally got the lock-N-Load powder measure on my Lee LoadMaster. I loaded almost 100 223's with Win 748, no powder spills!
RogerN
You set a good example for us. Thank you.
How heavy are they loaded?
Looking in the Hornady book, those little light bullets go nearly twice my speed!
Hey, is that woodworking vise for sale?
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I used the starting load of 22.5 grains.
These little bullets are awesome in the 22-250, after shooting a possum in the carport, I couldn't figure out where his bottom jaw went. The next day we found it on top of his head. These light bullets seem to explode at those speeds. Shoot a Democrat in the head and they might get enough sense to come out of the rain!
By the way, where's Ed Huntress, Carney needs help lying for Obama but they want liars for free, thought maybe Ed could help. Four or so years ago, my sources were saying that ObamaCare could fund abortions, Ed said they couldn't, now Obama's paid administration says they "Don't know" (meaning I was right, Ed was wrong), they need Ed to explain it to them. Ed made a wise choice to hide before facts proved him to be wrong. Of course
RogerN
I would think you'd be happy to fund abortions for liberals...
A friend once bought a rather exotic "22-Krag" wildcat built on a beautiful hi-wall Winchester action. I think he bought the gun, not the caliber. Anyway, with even a slightly hot load that gun would cause the bullets to disintegrate between the muzzle and the 100 yd. target.
We even walked down range (the place was deserted that day) and fired shots from point-blank all the way back to 100 yds and unquestionably the bullets exploded, due to centrifugal force he reckoned. At point-blank range there was a nice little .22 hole in the target and at 25 yds it looked like a shotgun.
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