Fantastic 2 videos. Well shown and explained for someone who's just cleaning up and sizing his first reloads(me). Pretty cool what these dyes and some extra attention can fix.
Great video. I really enjoy you delivery and sense of humor. It's hard for me throw away brass, but I always think about blowing my face off and get rid of the bad looking stuff.
Thanks, I really appreciate that! I too struggle with tossing any brass, but 19 of those went straight into the trash. The 20th case now has a sweet mullet and flips janky brass on GunBroker 🤣
I never show it, but I've used questionable brass many times. If it's a sharp crease, no. But a mild dent, I use it. The shell deflector on AR rifles can sometimes be rough on brass. Any shoulder or neck dents, I anneal it before I load it again, just to keep the brass pliable.
I just straight tossed these into the garbage. I had a brass bucket but it got filled with other garbage at some point and I abandoned it. Time to make a new recycling bucket. I've heard you can trade it for lead at the scrap yard!
Back about 10 or so years ago when there was the first recent ammo shortage I had listened to some "Expert" tell about how you had to get rid of any brass with any sort of damage at all costs...or else... Well, that was sort of a double dog dare, and anyway I already knew differently, I sorted out 50 pieces of the worst 45 Auto range brass to prove a point. Some had the case mouths smashed mostly flat. I had the same results as you. Two or three couldn't be saved, one lip sagged and got a little worse after sizing, and most of the dents came out just fine with minor blemishes left to mark their passing. I used a Phillips screwdriver to round the case mouths. I set out to see how many times I could reload them. All these years later I'm still reloading that same brass. At least those that I can find after shooting. I'm stubborn as I have 10s of thousands of 45 Auto brass. Still proving my point because it's fun...and, I can.
That's fun. I like testing the boundaries of things people say are absolutes... within reason. Always nice hearing other stories, thanks for sharing. Happy Holidays
I've never actually seen an episode of that. Already threw the brass away 🙁 and I'm still working on a huge bucket but I hate the initial trimming for 300blk, my cases are way over length from my crappy jig.
Give me ur thoughts on this. I got a new gun in 2022 and the first shot I take out of it is factor federal fusion 300wsm 165g. Manufacturing date 2006. Box has been inside a dresser the entire time then I shoot it to break in my gun and sight in my scope. 4 out of 20 have cracked necks on factory loaded ammo that's been stored 16 to 18 yrs.
I've got a sea of brass on the ground at my personal range that's been laying there for about 3 years. It's not dented up or cracked for the most part but it's literally black and half full of dirt from being tarnished and laying out there so long. Is that stuff even worth picking up at that point?
Hell yeah, it's still just as good. You can buy a wet tumbler, or just throw it in a bucket with some dish soap and mix it around for a few minutes, and finally rinse all the suds and left overs off with the hose/utility sink/whatever you have available. After that I'll let them dry out for a few days and then dry tumble with walnut media. Good as new, and the darker tarnished ones look cooler IMO. The color doesn't make any difference. 👍 Edit, and you can skip the dry tumbling if you wash them well enough or don't care that they don't sparkle like brand new, they will work just the same.
@@DummyRound Well, I guess I may as well pick it up then. It's from back before this ammogeddon so ammo was so cheap, I didn't even worry about it. Thank you sir. 👍
Yeah buddy! If you get bored, you can start to sort by cartridge and even specific headstamps for rifle stuff if you like. If you end up grabbing a press and find a set of dies, you can even deprime and size them. Then you'd have to measure overall length to determine if it needs trimmed and that's all for another video lol
@@DummyRound See now these are the ideas and tips I wanna hear. To me, just goin and buying everything you need and supplies and all just isn't realistic right now because of availability and prices. But If I can pick up some brass and start to deprime it and have it prepped for when I can easily get components again, that makes it feel way less overwhelming!😎
Brass prep takes a lot of time so I try to do larger batches of it. This way, when I go to actually reload, everything is ready to get primed, powder, and bullet. Let me know if you have any questions!
