ferggie
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I am purchasing 5000 rounds of 45 APC brass from an indoor range. I would appreciate any help that would let me know which brass (head stamp) I should stay away from for reloading.
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My .45 collection of brass has grown considerably due to the "Public" leaving their Winchester White Box brass lay all over the floor. It's easy..."Sir..do you want your brass?" "No?...Well thank you...I would love to collect it!" I even have the range officers bringing me 45 brass! I guess I have a reputation of being a brass whore.I've found at local ranges that the majority of the discarded brass, collected and sold by the range, was discarded for a reason. It's past its useful life.
Unless the range caters to a lot of public shooters that use only new ammo and let it lie when they're done, you end up just getting others junk.
Fact is, that with the .45ACP, it really doesn't matter whether the brass has been used once or 100 times as long as the case hasn't been stepped on too badly.
I've purchased from a couple sources. Other than weeding out the ones that were the wrong caliber, I've only tossed 2 .45ACP cases out of 1k for poor neck tension, and perhaps 2 or 3 luger cases out of 2k for an off center primer hole or a crack. No culls out of 1k 40SW.Any time I purchased miscellaneous range brass in bulk, I would typically end up with about half to two-thirds of it that is good and workable. The others either had the wrong primers for reloading or were in some way not worth processing for reloading (cracks, loose primer pockets, primers already fallen out, etc).
Your mileage may vary.