Pre-priming cases

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I preprime to lower the number of stored primers I have sitting around. The preprimed brass does not count toward the number of primers in your house per the regulations.

I like having the brass ready to drop the powder, add a bullet, and shoot.

 

[45lcshooter]

A lot of my rounds, I pre prime. I work more than 70hrs a week, so I don't have time to sit and start to finish reload. Bench is in the basement, on the side of a mountain, 50-55 degrees all year long, 50ish percent humidity. Most of the per primed brass stays in the loading trays. Had some, 30-30 sitting in the trays just waiting for powder and a pill, for over 3 years. Loaded it, fired it.

 

[FROGO207]

I used to prime my casings ahead after cleaning/processing them as time allowed and store away for later reloading sessions. Now I do not do that with nearly as many at a time. Nothing wrong with doing so IMHO but with the primer resupply situation so bleak, RE not having 20K of each size on hand and more supplies available at a moments notice to be able to preprime piles of prepared casings then set them aside for whenever I happen to decide reload them. When supplies come back so I am comfortable that I will not be removing primers from some casings and re installing into other calibers I will go back to processing 1-2K cleaned, sized, primed, and belled at a time to speed up the overall process on those days I actually feel the need to reload the ammo. I also would keep the sessions to a 25 casing minimum and put away the unused primers so that you will be able to keep things straight in your head at each session. Especially if you have the capability of reloading more than one type of ammo in your house. There is a possibility however small that you could make a mistake. Better safe than sorry when reloading. YMMV