What if I NEVER lose my .45 Brass (Glock)??

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Usually when I go to my local range there's nobody there so I have plenty of time to collect my brass off the floor and I usually take home 98% of what I came with. Since the old "you'll lose it before you wear it out" adage may not apply here, is it really ok to reuse Glock fired .45 brass 10 or 20 or 30 times??? I can tell that the force needed to resize it is somewhat more than brass fired through other guns so I wonder if it really will last forever.
 
IMHO while the Glock chamber may be ever-so-slightly larger than other manufacturer's, the primary determining factor in brass life remains the powder charge you're using to reload. So if you're reloading with low-power "plinking loads", then 'yes' you can probably get 20 or more reloads out of your brass.
 
When I shot a glock, I just got an after market barrel that had a supported chamber. That stopped the bulging. With most .45s, I just shoot the brass until I notice cracks in the neck. With glock fired brass, you have to worry about the brass blowing out at the rim without prior notice that it's about to go. Even though the .45 is a relatively low pressure round, it's still going to hurt if one goes. I'd invest in an after market barrel. With the cost of ammo these days, it's going to pay for itself in short order.
 
When I shot a glock, I just got an after market barrel that had a supported chamber. That stopped the bulging.
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Same here and I barely bell the case mouth so I'm getting good life from my brass.
 
Yeah, if you can stop the bulging, .45 is such a low pressure round that the brass will last almost forever. I have brass that it about ten years old and am still using it.

For reference, my preferred load is a 200gr LSWC over 5.2gr of Accurate No. 2 for sort of a pop gun load that my 11 year likes and over 5.6gr of AA No. 2 for my standard plinking round.

It might be a bad practice, but I've done it for years. I don't even bother to segregate brass by the number of times reloaded. Every time I load up, I find one or two that have a split and I just discard them.
 
A friend and I once took a Dillon loader to the range and began shooting five rounds of .45 ACP over and over. After being reloaded 35 times the cases were beat up from hitting the cement and ground but--no cracks or splits!! We stopped at that many re-loadings as the range was closing. I intend to pursue this again in the near future with more cases and photo the results.
 
If you reload mid to near max load data rounds to shoot in Glocks, $100 Lone Wolf barrels are cheap insurance as they have tighter chamber with better support for case base.

When I resize the mid-load data cases shot from Lone Wolf barrels, it takes very little effort. Less you work the brass, longer it will last. I use just enough flare to seat the bullet that you can't hardly see, but can feel with your finger tips.

I have test loaded some batches of brass 50-100+ times using mid-load data with Lone Wolf barrels and have not experienced case splits. YMMV
 
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