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Are there brands of brass not worth saving?
Several suggestions......so I have a question for those of you who reload for 9mm. Are there brands of brass not worth saving?
I have buckets of it I have picked up over the years, but I still pick my sorted batch of cases up.I don't take the time to pick up my own 9mm brass, but I have more than a few thousand cases stored somewhere, just becuase.
I still remember $60 for a box of 50 Blazer rounds during covid. Why not reload 9mm and save if you can, and taylor rounds that are more accurate than even premium ammo off the shelf. I like to load cast or my own coated bullets because I shoot a lot of steel, and those bullets don't throw jacket flack back at my ugly face.I have done a bit of reloading for various calibers, but not yet for 9mm, even though I have the dies. I have about 400 rounds of assorted brands of range ammo handy, and I'm wondering if I should start saving the brass, in advance of another potential round of ammo shortages; so I have a question for those of you who reload for 9mm. Are there brands of brass not worth saving? I would certainly save Remington and Federal, but I also have CCI, Blazer, Fiocchi, and Winchester white box (that one I'll discard, as I've had problems with extraction and ejection with WWB in my .40-cal guns). What should I not bother keeping?
I have loaded 9 in the past but don't currently. If you have a 9, collect a 5 gallon bucket to put back and have the dies. Other than scrounging up primers you can start when the need appears.I have done a bit of reloading for various calibers, but not yet for 9mm, even though I have the dies. I have about 400 rounds of assorted brands of range ammo handy, and I'm wondering if I should start saving the brass, in advance of another potential round of ammo shortages; so I have a question for those of you who reload for 9mm. Are there brands of brass not worth saving? I would certainly save Remington and Federal, but I also have CCI, Blazer, Fiocchi, and Winchester white box (that one I'll discard, as I've had problems with extraction and ejection with WWB in my .40-cal guns). What should I not bother keeping?
I've reloaded thousands of rounds of mixed 9mm range brass. The only consistent problems I found were off center flash holes in Browning 9mm. Just because you had problems with extraction with one brand of brass doesn't mean you will have any problems with that when you reload it. Several reasons why it might have failed to extract and I would say the extractor groove is the least likely of reasons.I have done a bit of reloading for various calibers, but not yet for 9mm, even though I have the dies. I have about 400 rounds of assorted brands of range ammo handy, and I'm wondering if I should start saving the brass, in advance of another potential round of ammo shortages; so I have a question for those of you who reload for 9mm. Are there brands of brass not worth saving? I would certainly save Remington and Federal, but I also have CCI, Blazer, Fiocchi, and Winchester white box (that one I'll discard, as I've had problems with extraction and ejection with WWB in my .40-cal guns). What should I not bother keeping?
I think I would try a different 9mm Luger resizing die to see if I could get the job done in one pass.I reload many different headstamped 9mm cases. I used to have a problem with thin wall cases not holding bullets tight. Now I size the cases a second time with my 380 acp sizing die before I expand them. the extra couple thousandths of sizing eliminates the problem with the thin wall cases.
luck,
murf
I am cheap and easy. this 380 acp die thing works all the time so I will let you run your experiment and buy all those dies. good luck and let us know how it turns out.I think I would try a different 9mm Luger resizing die to see if I could get the job done in one pass.
I know people swap around on here for once fired brass if that helps. I got about half a 5 gal bucket of 40 that needs to go.The responses so far are interesting. Out at the gun range at our gun club, there are thousands of 9mm empties on the ground, but absolutely nothing else reloadable can be found....it's evident that I'm not the only one who views certain brands as not worth keeping.
Storage space is another issue...I'm already over-capacity, and have to be very selective about what I'll keep.