Vern Humphrey
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Start handloading and accumulate brass cases.
What casings for revolvers? Brass? Aluminum? Steel?
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Vern Humphrey
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Do you have a closet?
When I lived in an apartment in Utica Michigan, I had a complete reloading outfit in a tool box -- it was build around a Lee Hand Press.
When I lived in an apartment in Utica Michigan, I had a complete reloading outfit in a tool box -- it was build around a Lee Hand Press.
Vern Humphrey
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Midway has the Lee handpress kit -- everything you need to start up -- for $42.99.
http://www.midwayusa.com/find?&sort...304&newcategorydimensionid=11519&pageNumber=2
http://www.midwayusa.com/find?&sort...304&newcategorydimensionid=11519&pageNumber=2
Bula
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Another thought, buy brass, then sell your empties...Once fired .44 mag or .45 colt rarely lasts a day when priced right.
CajunBass
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Take up reloading. I've got a Lee hand press myself. I bought everything I needed, press, dies, powder measure, powder scales, Lee case trimmer, primer pocket cleaner, chamfer tool, powder, primers, bullets, etc., I was into it all for less than $200.00 bucks. I had hundreds of rounds of brass I'd saved over the years. It all fits into a cardboard box and be set up on the kitchen table using a piece of plywood as a base for the powder measure.
To tell you the truth, I don't use most of it now. I've found it's easier for me to just use the little dipper that Lee packs in each set of dies. I just check the table and find out what kind of powder they recomend for what bullet weight and buy that. It's sort of slow, but I'm not in a particular hurry.
Later on you can get an inexpensive case tumbler for bright shiney cases.
(To answer the original question, I've fired all three with no problems.)
To tell you the truth, I don't use most of it now. I've found it's easier for me to just use the little dipper that Lee packs in each set of dies. I just check the table and find out what kind of powder they recomend for what bullet weight and buy that. It's sort of slow, but I'm not in a particular hurry.
Later on you can get an inexpensive case tumbler for bright shiney cases.
(To answer the original question, I've fired all three with no problems.)
I have not found any noticeable difference between brass. I reload .44 mag and have had a lot of my brass for forever. If it looks less than trustworthy, I toss it, or make it into .44 sp.
Congratulations on getting into reloading. You'll find it meditative.
Congratulations on getting into reloading. You'll find it meditative.
I don't mean to continue to derail this thread, but the comments about the Lee Hand Press are spot on. I bought one and loaded from my coffee table and couch for a few months to get the hang of reloading before upgrading later.
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Steel cases have a bad reputation for wearing out extractors on semi-autos but this has no effect in revolvers.
Coal Dragger
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My dad started on a Lee Loader for his .357, and moved up to a Lee press not long after.
Having gained skills under his tutelage I went strait to a press when I got my own equipment, and now have a Dillon Square Deal B for .45ACP and a Redding T7 for everything else. At this point I can't imagine not reloading, but I have a lot of money invested in equipment that I have acquired over the years.
Having gained skills under his tutelage I went strait to a press when I got my own equipment, and now have a Dillon Square Deal B for .45ACP and a Redding T7 for everything else. At this point I can't imagine not reloading, but I have a lot of money invested in equipment that I have acquired over the years.
Ash
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I would think that revolvers, of all firearms, are ideally suited for steel cases. First of all, the steel is really mild stuff, nothing hard about it (though harder, relatively, than brass). And second, there is no neck to deal with and so the cases (I would imagine) would have very little deformation.
I could be wrong, but the Soviets knew well how to make and use steel cases (and the Russians know, too, as a result) and so had there really been an issue, they would have discarded the idea decades ago.
I could be wrong, but the Soviets knew well how to make and use steel cases (and the Russians know, too, as a result) and so had there really been an issue, they would have discarded the idea decades ago.
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Orion8472
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Good point, Ash.
I'm going to go to Academy to see how much their Monarch .45acp rounds are.
At SOME point in the future, I will probably get into loading. Not having any tables in my apartment, it isn't really feasible at the moment, but I plan on keeping all the brass casings I DO fire for that day.
I'm going to go to Academy to see how much their Monarch .45acp rounds are.
At SOME point in the future, I will probably get into loading. Not having any tables in my apartment, it isn't really feasible at the moment, but I plan on keeping all the brass casings I DO fire for that day.
BCCL
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Far as I can recall, I've not shot any steel cased ammo in a revolver, but being a cheapskate, I've shot more aluminum than I can even begin to try to count since it can out, and I've never had a single problem in a revolver. (mentioned in another thread, I have had one aluminum casehead crack in a .45acp)
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