Perhaps the most important aspect of the reloading process is the brass in which you plan to reload. After all, what good is primer, powder, and a bullet if you don’t have anything to put them in. While the “perfect” brass may be a fairy tale, choosing the brass you use is an important step in ensuring your loads meet their highest possible success. Choosing the perfect brass is one of the more challenging steps when getting started in reloading, as finding a brass you really like often comes down to trial and error.

Reloading for Plinking

While it is definitely a good reason to be reloading, plinking doesn’t require an exceptional amount of effectiveness. Therefore, the brass used for plinking should not be the “top-shelf” brass. Just for clarification, plinking refers to the act of shooting just to be shooting without any concern for accuracy or penetration.

However, that doesn’t mean you can use just any brass. You will still want to make sure that there are no visible signs of damage before reloading. Though accuracy is not a concern, safety should always be at the top of your list.

Staying Safe

Brass cartridges are not designed for infinite firings and will eventually fail. Because of this fact, it is best to only work with brass for which you have a known firing history. Brass rarely suffers catastrophic failure but even small problems can cause complications in your firearm. Thus, it is highly recommended that you only reload new brass you have fired yourself or brass that is reputably known to be “once fired”. When you purchase your brass from Capital Cartridge, you can use it with assurance that, when we say once-fired, we mean it.

 

 

Choosing Brass

Reloaders all have different opinions when it comes to the “perfect” brass. Some will go so far as to tell you that a particular manufacture is the best. Finding the one you like most will require that you test different manufacturers and setups. However, matching your brass by production run will help to ensure consistency across cartridges, and sticking with familiar manufacturers is always a good bet when quality is a concern. Verify manufacturers is easy; simply look at the head stamp located at the bottom of the cartridge.

 

One fact to keep in mind before talking another reloaders word as gospel is that different guns will react differently to brass. They could be the same model of gun made on the same day in the same factory and still have an inconsistency with brass. That’s why the best way to figure out which brass works best for your gun is by simple trial and error. Remember, good note taking is an excellent habit to form.

 

Brass Production

This brings about another thought to keep in mind. While manufacturers strive to build consistency into their brass, changes do occur in the production line. Just as two guns from the same manufacture can react differently to brass, the same holds true for the brass. Two casings of the same caliber from the same manufacturer could have a variation in the amount of powder they can safely hold. That’s why it is always a good practice to weigh each cartridge to see if they are within 2 to 3 grains of each other.

 

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