Two New Milestones

[uncle.45]

Some of you are familiar with the journey I've been on with my lil SDB for the last three years or so.
Today we reached two milestones. Well, one milestone, and a small event.
I crossed the 40,000 round mark today!
With very few troubles, and a lot of good times, I have turned out increasingly-high-quality 45acp ammo with this terrific little press. I am really happy with it!
Also, today I took the toolhead off to clean dies for the fourth time, and hit another milestone. (sort of)
When I put it back together, and was making a dummy round to confirm measurements, I had my first ever split case.
For a minute, I couldn't figure out why the taper went from 0.470" to 0.475", but then I realized the piece of S+B brass I was using had a small split at the case mouth. Not bad considering how many rounds I have done without one.
I had my first 'casualty', but it's a great Saturday!

 

[FROGO207]

I can't recall if I ever have had a split pistol brass. I load 45Acp, 9MM, 380, 25 ACP. and 40/10MM. I layed it off to loosing them in the weeds before they failed. Revolver brass is another animal alltogether.

 

[uncle.45]

Frog,
That's what a lot of people say about straight-walled pistol brass.
Unless you over-flare them, they just last and last.
I don't know how many times that case had been reloaded.
After the first 6 months or so, I quit trying to track the number of loads on brass.
With pistol brass it just seems silly.