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Mike B.
As long as you properly clean, & occasionally properly anneal the brass you can reload those cartridge cases almost as many times as you want … It’s all up to you, & what you want to do … to have loaded ammo on hand…
Annealing the cleaned cartridge properly … tends to re-soften the cartridge brass case mouth where the projectile of your choice sits … safely ensconced … so that down the line the brass doesn’t split at the case mouth. That’s time to recycle the brass, and to begin again with a new lot of brass.
Each time you resize and fire your loaded round you work harden the brass… & also tend to stretch the cartridge case OAL a tiny bit… So proper maintenance for your brass is important …
Proper annealing tends to restore the brass towards its original state… Since cartridge cases tend to make up the largest part of the reloading cost… Taking care of your cartridge cases is an important part of the equation.
As long as you can make your cast product, & get powder and primers… you can tend to make your brass last for a very long time.
Each part of the equation has its bits and pieces that tends to need to be learned and hopefully mastered … to regularly produce good … safe, & accurate product …
Think of your brass as your luggage container … holding all the components necessary to propel your cast projectile down range … You will want to take care of your luggage to have it last a long time…
Your cast product needs to fit properly into the cartridge case and your firearms chamber…
The proper powder, & load data needs to be researched and fitted to the firearm of your choice…
Primers need to be properly selected so that one can safely reload the cartridge case… There are Large & Small primers of both types Rifle & Pistol…
Not to exclude Shotgun here … Which is technically a separate entity unto itself … with its own set of parameters and restrictions …
Rifle primers are taller than pistol primers… and the primer pockets for each type are only so deep…
Using the wrong primer type (such as a pistol primer in a rifle cartridge case), can tend to produce a goodly number of duds … as it will tend to be seated too deep, so that the firing pin does not detonate the primer …
Or slam fires (as in a rifle primer in a pistol case) Where the round can go off before the firearm in question is in the locked position…
In this instance the primer is fully seated but still stands proud above the base of the cartridge case…
It’s all part of the reloading equation… One tends to want to reload so that one can shoot more…
It all depends on what you want to do and the effort that you put into the mix…
What is your labor worth to you when, if you have a choice… or the market is bare and the stores are closed …
With the price of loaded ammo still on the rise … & components still tending to be scarcer than hens teeth… learning the aforementioned bits and pieces can keep you stocked up … should the need arise… to go to the range…
Knowledge is a kind of chevron that once learned can be passed, on or in the opposite case lost to history … to keep one self sufficient
“All knowledge is for good. Only the use to which you put it can be good or evil.”
Take Care, & Stay Safe…
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