I put a bar-code on each piece of brass and scan it with a handheld scanner which uploads to my Smart Phone.
Available at Sinclair/Brownells.
so if I may ask on 243 brass when it wears out, does it split length wise along the neck or what? thanks!
Do you mark your brass somehow to keep track of how many times it's been fired?
Do you keep track of it solely through organization?
Do you not keep track of it at all and instead examine it to determine if it's still good to go?
I put a bar-code on each piece of brass and scan it with a handheld scanner which uploads to my Smart Phone.
So the follow up ? For those who keep track, what's the magic number to throw them away?
Rule 3 wrote:
I put a bar-code on each piece of brass and scan it with a handheld scanner which uploads to my Smart Phone.
Available at Sinclair/Brownells
Any rifle brass can fail in several ways, depending on it's age, and how it was loaded. If the brass just gets brittle from repeated loadings, then a neck split is usually how it fails. If there's a flaw in the brass, it can crack or develop a hole wherever that flaw is, but in my experience it's usually somewhere in the wall of the case. If the shoulder has been set back too far, then brass flow will cause the case head to separate just above the web, referred to as "insipient case head separation". You can usually see this about to occur as indicated by a line just above the web, or you can use a wire bent into a 90 degree angle and probe the inside of the case at the web and you'll feel it catch where the brass has started to thin.
The other failure is the primer pockets become enlarged and the primer is either just barely held in place, or falls out. You can feel that when seating the primers.
Fred
Newtosavage wrote:
So the follow up ? For those who keep track, what's the magic number to throw them away?
My practice alsoI gave up trying to keep track....Too much brass in too many calibers. So I shoot it until I lose it, the case splits or the primer pocket is too loose to hold the primer.
For straight wall I shoot it till it's cracked or the primer pocket gets sloppy.
I put a bar-code on each piece of brass and scan it with a handheld scanner which uploads to my Smart Phone.
Available at Sinclair/Brownells.
Please send me all your 357 plated brass! ThanksThe only real issue I've had over time is with plated pistol brass. I avoid it.