Here is what the .45 Gap will do for me

[Master Blaster]

It will make my brass aquisition for reloading more difficult because now I will have to sort out the .45 GAP brass and throw it away.

Its a whole 1/8" shorter than the current .45ACP.

Its purpose is what?????????

 

[1911Tuner]

The Purpose

Master Blaster observed:

It will make my brass aquisition for reloading more difficult because now I will have to sort out the .45 GAP brass and throw it away.

Yep
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Its purpose is what?????????

Why...to SELL, of course.

Tedious solution:

Use a red, chisel-point felt-tip pen to color the extractor grooves on your
.45 ACP brass. Makes it easier to do a visual ID. I do it when I plan to
shoot used range brass and new ammo in the same session, so I
can keep my once-fired stuff separate from the beat-up stuff. Easier
to separate once I get it home, before the tumbler gets it.

Luck!

Tuner

 

[mtnbkr]

Boo freakin hoo.

Us 38/357 shooters have had to do this for decades (well, I haven't been doing it for decades...). I imagine the same is true for 44mag/44special shooters as well. Heck, is there that much difference between the 454casull and 45colt?

Do what we do, read the headstamps.

Chris

 

[1911Tuner]

BooHoo?

T'was suggested:

Do what we do, read the headstamps.
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Or...use two separate containers to dump the brass in...A luxury that
autopistol shooters just don't have unless we wear one of those
silly bags on our wrists.

 

[45R]

Here is the solution for all your GAP problems. Its called the ultimate brass catcher No more reading stampheads having to put the brass in your hands until you need to wash your brass.

 

[Master Blaster]

Is that a Gil Hibbard? Rick Eichoff the guy that makes them is a member of my Pistol club.

I' referring not to my pick ups from my range, where none of the members will buy a GAP, but to the commercial range where I buy my brass for $20 per thousand sold by weight, currently 1,000 means that there is other stuff in there and I get about 900 .45acp cases, once fired from new through the range rental guns or police guns (they practice there).

.40 S&W = annoying cases that are sometimes inside the .45 cases.

 

[David4516]

I know what you mean...

When I shoot my 9mm Makarov, the brass gets mixed in with the 9mm Lugers and the .380 ACPs...

 

[caz223]

Another reason I don't like .40 s&w.
It looks a little like everything.
.45, 9mm, 10mm, etc.
I just pick 'em all up, and sort 'em out later.

 

[Zeke Menuar]

I wish I had written this,

http://www.realguns.com/commentary.htm

ZM

 

[Treylis]

Another reason I don't like .40 s&w.
It looks a little like everything.
.45, 9mm, 10mm, etc.

I'll second that! I went to a range not too long ago with some guys shooting a few things chambered in .40S&W right next to me, and my .45ACP brass intermingled with theirs... it looks just kinda close enough for me to pick it up a bunch of the time and dirty my hands until they were absolutely filthy.

Then, of course, I learned that the range didn't have a sink I could use to wash up, heh.

 

[BluesBear]

Your range doesn't have a sink?!?!? Not even in the restroom?
Hopefully this is not an indoor range.

In my range box (and in the glove box of my car) I always keep a handful of those packaged wet-naps they give you at Hooters for wiping the wing sauce off of your hands. At least that what they say they are for, I personally have never seen anybody use them for that. They are great for wiping the powder smut off of your hands. When I shoot out at the gravel pit I also take a couple of 2-liter soda bottles full of water just for washing.
In addition to the several dozen full of water we bring for blowing up.

 

[Third_Rail]

Zeke, GREAT link, absolutely wonderful humor.

 

[Treylis]

Your range doesn't have a sink?!?!? Not even in the restroom?
Hopefully this is not an indoor range.

No, no, and no. ;-) I'm guessing that they actually do, but I was told no anyways for some reason. (General snobbishness because I'm not a member? Restroom was closed because the range was closing down for non-members at that time of day? Restroom is members-only?) I usually just head out into the desert, where I can bring fun targets like your later-mentioned water bottles. Just paper at this range.

In my range box (and in the glove box of my car) I always keep a handful of those packaged wet-naps they give you at Hooters for wiping the wing sauce off of your hands. At least that what they say they are for, I personally have never seen anybody use them for that. They are great for wiping the powder smut off of your hands. When I shoot out at the gravel pit I also take a couple of 2-liter soda bottles full of water just for washing.
In addition to the several dozen full of water we bring for blowing up.

Since then I've started keeping wet-naps with me as well... I snatched up a bunch from the auto shop when I had my tires replaced. At the time, though, instead of smearing blackish hand stuff all over the place inside of my vehicle, I put on some surgical gloves that I keep around when I got in my car. I'm sure I looked rather strange driving with them on, heh.