jgh4445
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I have about 250 pieces of primed, never fired, aluminum .45ACP cases. Does anyone know of any reason I can't use the load data I would normally use for brass cases? These will not be reloaded.
Just wondering, where does one buy never fired aluminum cases?
Or are this Blazer cartridges that have had the bullets pulled
I reload fired 9MM aluminum cases. I fire these when the snow covers the ground. I just hate to lose my brass.
Same goes for steel. I've loaded a bunch of them in 223. While I reloaded enough that it made replacing the mandrel in my die worth while but I don't load them anymore because of the amount of brass I have. It does bother me a bit too loose the brass in the field & woods but I have enough I get over it. I'd say I loaded better then 1K before I started noticing I had a problem with the neck being to tight. Measuring the mandrel showed I'd with .001" away.I was never a fan of aluminum cased ammunition for anything except the cost.
I did use it up until it messed up a firearm.
I also knew a guy that was proud of the fact that he was so smart he figured out how to reload aluminum cases even though they were non-reloadable. Sure most split upon the 2nd firing but they were free.
About 6 months in he noticed erosion in the chamber and it cost him a new barrel. He learned two things after that, the first was the difference between "can't" and "shouldn't". The 2nd was that any case he picks up off the ground is free and there's a reason why people pick up the free brass ones and leave the aluminum ones.
IMHO, steel cases are better for this purpose, they rust away to practically nothing in a few years, the aluminum sit there a very long time, as will brass.These will be walk in the woods, shoot targets of opportunity and not have to look for brass
Can you point me to where the "many" are that claim aluminum cases have damaged their guns?I wish some one would do an in depth study on reloading boxer primed Aluminum cases. I have used these reloaded once in a $2,000 dollar Luger. I have never had problems.
Many others who own valuable handguns that were ruined by Aluminum cases. There must be a technology that we are unaware of?
I have used these reloaded once in a $2,000 dollar Luger. I have never had problems.
You were actually dead & brought back of is this just a matter of using the wrong word?I have been electrocuted, unintentionally, before and didn't have any problems but I don't go around trying to point out it can't hurt anything, anymore that I'd say your going to die if you get shocked.