What headstamp brass do you toss in 9MM?

Toss??!! Who tosses usable brass and why??!! Anything I don’t want to load as 9mm Luger I cut down to 9mm Makarov or reshape to fix the flaws in the lathe.
TOSS?? No way, man.

Blazer, and more times than not... the *FC*. The older FC is fine though.

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Overly expanded 9mm Major brass shot by USPSA Open Division match shooters and left on the ground/range floor for us reloaders to sort out.

When I encounter significantly increased resizing effort, I check the brass with a barrel. If it won't readily drop into the chamber freely with a "plonk", it gets resized again but if it fails the second time, it gets tossed for recycling.

S&B !!!

Hockey7711 said:

S&B !!!

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S&B and other headstamp cases should be checked with magnet to ensure they are not brass plated steel cases.

LiveLife said:

Overly expanded 9mm Major brass shot by USPSA Open Division match shooters and left on the ground/range floor for us reloaders to sort out.

When I encounter significantly increased resizing effort, I check the brass with a barrel. If it won't readily fully chamber with a "plonk", it gets resized again but if it fails the second time, it gets tossed for recycling.

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I’d love to have a couple hundred expanded like that for my Makarov conversions. The only hard part about converting 9x19 to 9x18 is getting the brass sufficiently expanded to resize it properly.

Blazer!

I can’t remember the exact head stamp but it looks something like ICK. I pick it up, look at it, say ick out loud and chunk it.

Walkalong said:

I also scrap crimped 9MM cases, I have too much to worry with it.

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Send those to me. I got C-H primer pocket swager and growing bucket of brass that needs to be swaged.

Walkalong said:

Send it all to me, I like both of those.

Stepped cases and Amerc get scrapped. I also scrap crimped 9MM cases, I have too much to worry with it.

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I can see their utility if I were casting my own. So, though they've made it to my bad brass bucket... if I ever start casting I can still pull 'em out

Any crimped 9mm case goes in my brass recycle bin. I also recycle Aguilla. Everything else gets used unless they are obviously different in a big way. No steel, no aluminum, no stepped cases.

Only if berdan primed. I have come across brass that was berdan primed.

I don't look at head-stamps on 9MM brass. I just reload them. They all shoot and they all eject.

What AJCI said except I have not run across enough Aguilla to worry about, they go in a can labeled "9mm misc".
My 9mm reloads are fc, sb or rp, i don't mix headstamps in a box(50)

And for what reason would you throw them away?

It would be easier for me to tell you what I keep... RP, PMC, WIN, FC (...and, as was noted, not *FC*) and Speer/Blazer. That's it. The rest goes in the scrap bucket, to include anything crimped.

frogfurr said:

And for what reason would you throw them away?

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I don't anneal and I run the same batch thru the reload cycle until i see beginning of splits. I have an old circle magnifier light I run each shell under before I size etc. It probably helps that I don't load 9mm on the high end (hot).

gifbohane said:

Without a second thought which ones do you toss immediately?

Everyone will start with AMERC but I have only seen ONE piece in the last five years.

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Unless they are steel, a step inside the case, or berdan primed, I keep them all.

@LiveLife, I've never had the pleasure of picking up brass after a shooting match, so I can't imagine the frustration.

Enjoy the luxury of 9MM brass. If you truly like playing with brass buy a 308 semi-auto. You will start appreciating the 9MM brass no matter where it comes from.

kcofohio said:

@LiveLife, I've never had the pleasure of picking up brass after a shooting match, so I can't imagine the frustration.

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Unfortunately, 9mm Major match shooters practice at same ranges we shoot at too and most won't reuse the brass and leave them on the ground/range floor.

Of course, none of these are marked "Warning: Loaded to 9mm Major ... Do not reuse brass!" and get broomed/picked up by reloaders and mixed in with other range brass for some to wonder why a particular 9mm brass was so hard to resize and failed the case gage/barrel check.

frogfurr said:

Enjoy the luxury of 9MM brass. If you truly like playing with brass buy a 308 semi-auto.

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I'm probably more picky about my .308 brass than my 9mm... which is saying something... and for very much the same reasons.

Out of curiosity, what is wrong with the *FC*?