Fire Forming Brass and Necksizing - What do you do?

[Jerry D]

1) Do you buy factory ammo, shoot it and then reload with your components?
This method would requiring buying about 1/5th factory ammo and shooting 4/5ths reloads.

2) Do you buy unfired brass and load up a round and shoot it to fire form then reload for ultimate accuracy?

 

[Walkalong]

You can use factory ammo and then fire form those cases, or just buy new cases.

What kind of "fireforming" are you asking about?

 

[JDGray]

Necksize for bolt actions only. Your brass will last longer, and you dont need lube. If your loading once fired brass from your gun, the brass is fireformed to your chamber, if loading once fired from someone elses gun, you should full lenght size, then neck size from then on.

 

[Jerry D]

Yea, thanks guys, since the guns new and I don't shoot too much I'm going to pick up a few boxes of factory ammo to shoot and break it in while fire forming the brass to my chamber. Then I'll load up my "more expensive and high quality" target and hunting rounds.

 

[redneck2]

Either way will work, but I get new brass and start from there. Why would I waste money on factory stuff that won't shoot as well as mine and costs 4-6x as much? Plus, you waste one of the 5-8 loads you get out of the brass.

I can either spend $50-60 on 20 factory rounds, or get 100 bullets and primers, and either enough powder for 300 reloads or 100 brass for the same money.

All factory ammo does is waste time and money IMO. Shooting it tells me nothing.

 

[243winxb]

since the guns new

Shoot at least 1 box of factory to get a base line, and test that all is ok with the new gun. Then buy unfired brass and load up rounds and shoot it to fire form then reload for ultimate accuracy