You don't have to check. No reloader that I know would ever leave brass on the range, even the stuff they aren't going to reload again. Picking up brass gets to be such a habit its automatic...Besides, none of the guys I know would leave "unusable" brass laying around, because they wouldn't want you to load with it if they weren't going to.
Seriously, I think with .45ACP you should be safe, as long as the brass looks fairly new and isn't split at the case mouth or exhibiting a "ring" or "smile" near the base of the casing where the indentation for extraction starts.
--Mike From Iowa
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