question about stepped on brass

i will preface this by saying, i did use the search feature, but did not find anything close to my question, which will come up shortly.

i have a plan that by fall, i will most likely be buying the Dillon Square Deal B for 9 MM and .45 ACP.

in the meantime, i am saving up all my brass, and any other brass that i happen to sweep up, at the indoor range. (i have close to 1,000 rds, a mix of 9 MM & .45 ACP.)

this being said,...

"if i sweep up stepped on brass, and it is of course slightly bent inwards, either mine or others, will the press make it round again for reloading? "

thanks in advance to all that respond.

thanks guys. when i take home the swept up brass, i look at the name stamp, to see if it was mine, which i know will be first fired.

but depending on the lane that i use, sometimes, if near the entrance door, of course, people step on that brass, not intentionally. i do try to get to the very last lane, no traffic there of course.

i put aside any slightly bent cartridges i find, so now i know i can reload those.

i just did not want to toss them away, with out asking first.

thanks again.

GaryL said:

I keep a needle nose pliers on the bench for fixing pistol brass. Not one of the long type needle nose - the blunt type. Usually a couple tweaks on the edge where it's bent will get it roughly back to round. Doesn't need to be perfect, just round enough to feed nicely into the die. After that, the dies do a good job of 'fixing' the brass.

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God only knows the selection of hand tools that i have..!!!

GaryL said:

I keep a needle nose pliers on the bench for fixing pistol brass. Not one of the long type needle nose - the blunt type. Usually a couple tweaks on the edge where it's bent will get it roughly back to round. Doesn't need to be perfect, just round enough to feed nicely into the die. After that, the dies do a good job of 'fixing' the brass.

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you gave me an idea though as well

if, i can manage to find some steel rods (or brass rods) that can fit into a cartridge, maybe mount that in my bench, slightly tap the cartridge onto it, with a rubber hammer?

then use the die when it comes time to resize ? so i do not damage the die?

rfwobbly said:

I usually go ahead and give it a try. It won't hurt anything to try.

Reason it out. Chuck it directly into the recycle bin, versus try it, fail, and then chuck it in the recycling bin. What did the extra 15 seconds cost you ? About 1 of every 300 of your brass is going to get recycled for 1 of several reasons during each session anyway.

PS. You're going to love the Dillon.

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thanks, yeah, the RSO and i chat it up a bit when i am done and got some time left on my lane.

he was the one that had recommend the Dillon Square Deal B, i looked it up, priced it all out.

i had been looking at the Lee Classic turrent as well

did you buy directly from Dillon or another place?

another question, i went to the range today, with my new CZ 97B, shot off 110 rnds, (total) S&B 230 gr, and Winchester 230 gr.

i swept up the floor to get up as much of my brass as possible. the guy next to me had 9 MM and .45 ACP as well.

(i just checked all my fresh boxes of ammo that i took) and found that all of my .45 ACP has the large primers

i must have swept up some of the other guys .45 ACP, which those primers are smaller

**pics at the bottom.

i have already separated those smaller primers from my larger ones.

but now, i have to go thru like 300 more or so, of brass, as in the past, i swept up all i could see.

question(s) do you guys reload ALL the .45 ACP you get, small and large primers?

i will be reloading 9MM, which you know that has small

is it worth reloading the smaller primer .45 ACP..??


my RSO says he tosses away any small primer .45 ACP he sweeps. as it ain't worth his time to separate, etc.

also, when i do go and buy a press,and get the 45 dies, would it be true, that i'd need to also get a smaller de-primer for the .45?

thanks in advance.


problem posting pics, of the brass.

here however is a pic of one target, 8 yards, 20 rnds.

Blue68f100 said:

I just set the SP 45acp a side for if the day ever comes up I run out of LP. Or load them when you know you can't pickup your brass. You will loose ~20-25fps with the SP.

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ok, i will set aside the smaller primer brass. i'd hate to waste it though, like the RSO said he does.

thanks