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Service rifle brass life
Just wondering the groups opinion, on my AR service rifle my brass is going into it's 3rd firing. When is a good time to throw the lot out and start over?
I take good care of my brass culling out the damaged brass, keeping it clean and trimmed only sizing it down about .004 below chamber size. I haven't had a problem yet but.
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02-28-2010 12:11 PM
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I change my brass as soon as i can feel that the bullets can be seated with less power than i need to seat them in newer brass. I mark them and give them away after shooting it. In my rifles this is after the 5th - 6th time of reloading it.
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Originally Posted by
gunner
Hi Ed,
i would say.......... how goes the Bastard thing....? Must be Alzheimer that i cant repeat after you
All the best
Gunner
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I've got 1 lot of LC brass on their 5th firing. I've had no head separations but did have a few split necks so I decided it is time to replace them.
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I use the RCBS X-Die on my .30-06 brass. No idea when they will start failing. 6-8 reloads, perhaps, but the Garand is hard on brass and chews case rims.
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Thanks, for the input.Getting brass is not a issue for me so I will just rotate it out every four firings.
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On 5.56/.223 cases I anneal the case neck after every third firing. I neck size only and bump the shoulder every fifth reload. I normally retire this brass at 10 to 14 reloadings due to primer pocket problems. IMO the key to long case life in the 5.56/.223 is annealing the neck before it splits.
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amen, amen to the case neck annealing. I have been annealing cases for a long time and have really never had a neck split that I took care to anneal correctly, or for that matter any case yet shot in my service guns.I have split/separated case in some guns I shot alot while prairie do shooting. I had to full length size these a bit too often , I think. 6mm rem improved with a hot load.
Last edited by duggaboy; 04-28-2010 at 01:22 PM.