How many reloads on your 9mm?

[gifbohane]

I think that most of us are either swimming in 9mm cases or have plenty.

I never push the pressure and I am on the 4th loading of a few thousand WIN, FC, or GFL cases.

At some point I should just toss them and start using a new batch.

How many times would you use them before discarding them? What do you use as a sign of getting iffy?

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I think that most of us are either swimming in 9mm cases or have plenty.

I never push the pressure and I am on the 4th loading of a few thousand WIN, FC, or GFL cases.

At some point I should just toss them and start using a new batch.

How many times would you use them before discarding them? What do you use as a sign of getting iffy?

I leave them at the indoor range. Not much sense in picking them up at this point

 

[nettlle]

I reload them until they split. And that takes a while.

 

[Skgreen]

There's no telling how may times mine have been reloaded.
Unlike bottleneck, 9mm and straight wall brass shrink when resized. I chunk 'em when they measure < SAMMI min length. (About 20% cull rate the last time I measured)

 

[Starter52]

I'm with GeoDude. I have so many 9mm cases that I don't bother to pick them up.

 

[9mmepiphany]

I collect them during matches unless it is raining, muddy, hot, windy, cold, or I'm just lazy.

When I do pick up my brass during matches, I usually go home with more than I started with.

The only cases that I discard are FM, IMT, and Ammoland...and ones I find, after cleaning, with cracked or torn lips

 

[Walkalong]

I'm not sure I have worn any out. I did scrap my first batch and started shooting a batch of all same headstamp,
but there was nothing wrong with the batch I scrapped, must have had at least a dozen loadings on them.

 

[GooseGestapo]

I picked up several thousand Federal nickel cases from HydroShok shot by Border patrol and other Federal Government agency PPC teams. Mostly OFB. They were given it and most didn’t reload.

Some I’ve loaded and tumbled to the point the nickel is rubbed off.
It still loads and shoots great.
Some loaded over 50 times.

 

[tmd16556]

I only make a real effort to collect and track my cases if I’m doing a load workup. Otherwise 9x19 is more about picking up about as many as I fired, priority given to the closest ones. Particularly those that get launched on my area. I figure they cycle through so none get too many loadings.

 

[sparkyv]

I keep on reloading 'em until I lose 'em or they spilt.

I reload them until they split. And that takes a while.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

What do you use as a sign of getting iffy?

I push the spent primer out before wet tumbling.
If the primer comes out with little force, to the Biz Bag it goes for $crap metal.

 

[docbrown]

I shoot them until they split or the primer pocket loosens. Neither happens very often. I rarely load at the top of the ladder, so, pressure is usually not very high.

 

[N555]

I tried loading brass cases till they split back in like 2016, it 8 to 12 reloadings to split them.
Only time I get loose primers is on aluminum and my nickel plated +p brass that I load super hot.

 

[ms6852]

I've got a couple of 5 gal. buckets of 9mm but don't reload for it since I do not shoot this caliber much. I do own a couple of 9mm guns for my wife but she does not like to shoot. I do know that the time will come when I will no longer be able to shoot 45 acp or .357 magnum because I am developing arthritis on my thumbs and it beginning to get uncomfortable. For now I control the pain by using gloves, but when that is no longer viable I have plenty of brass cleaned and stored.

 

[41 Mag]

Like the others, I have both 9 and 45acp brass in quantity and I usually loose them before I wear them out.

 

[CQB45ACP]

Until I lose them or they split.

Otherwise I never ever trash any 9mm or 45acp case for any reason. Ever.

I have trashed maybe five cases total. Yesterday I found one split case—an ugly long jagged split. (Bullet in pic used only to show split better)

Best range trips result in a 10% loss. Worst 50% loss. So can’t afford to just dump them.

 

[FROGO207]

Like GooseGestapo I have brass that has 40-50 reloads and going strong. As long as it still has good neck tension good primer pocket and not split I will reload it. Also I am not building any 9MM major loads either. I usually loose any autoloading handgun brass before it expires for other reasons. Just sayi'n!

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

I keep on reloading 'em until I lose 'em or they spilt.

Like the others, I have both 9 and 45acp brass in quantity and I usually loose them before I wear them out.

Until I lose them or they split.

Otherwise I never ever trash any 9mm or 45acp case for any reason. Ever.

I have trashed maybe five cases total. Yesterday I found one split case—an ugly long jagged split. (Bullet in pic used only to show split better)

Best range trips result in a 10% loss. Worst 50% loss. So can’t afford to just dump them.
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Like these fellas, I lose them before I wear them out. Never had a 9mm split on me, but I had one fire Out Of Battery that startled me pretty well.

I have most of a 5 gal bucket of 9mm brass down in the barn, but I still pick them up at the range when I see them. It's worth at least scrap price.

And who can forget just a few years ago when brass was not to be had ? I pick it all up. I don't even own a 45 ACP (or 45 anything, for all that), but I still have several hundred 45 acp brass that I've picked up off the ground. Seems foolish not to, at least IMO.

 

[Y-T71]

Like these fellas, I lose them before I wear them out. Never had a 9mm split on me, but I had one fire Out Of Battery that startled me pretty well.

I have most of a 5 gal bucket of 9mm brass down in the barn, but I still pick them up at the range when I see them. It's worth at least scrap price.

And who can forget just a few years ago when brass was not to be had ? I pick it all up. I don't even own a 45 ACP (or 45 anything, for all that), but I still have several hundred 45 acp brass that I've picked up off the ground. Seems foolish not to, at least IMO.

I used to pick up brass for chamberings I don't own (don't get out to the range much anymore)

At the very least it makes good trading fodder.

With the latest shortage of common calibers like .30-30 ot .35 Rem makes, what were once common, pretty valuable.

 

[rtufixer]

I've lost count on how many times I have reloaded my 9mm. I toss em when they split

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

9mm brass holds up a long time. Nickle does split faster though.

 

[N555]

9mm brass holds up a long time. Nickle does split faster though.

I have heard that too. Plus I like to use the nickel as a warning to that it's loaded hot and shooting them in a hand gun would at best be unpleasant.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I have heard that too. Plus I like to use the nickel as a warning to that it's loaded hot and shooting them in a hand gun would at best be unpleasant.

I save the nickel cases for when I’m loading silver bullets.

 

[film495]

haven't made it far enough to toss a batch yet, but then I think I lose about 25% of them, and if I want a batch of 100 or 200 to load, I just start over with another batch of once fired and the old ones go in a labeled cofee can.

 

[NMexJim]

I push the spent primer out before wet tumbling.
If the primer comes out with little force, to the Biz Bag it goes for $crap metal.

Pockets are my tattle tale too. If primer pockets get too easy, to the trash they go. I took a look and I've got some cases fired 8X but those are way in the back of my storage bin.