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Old August 19, 2012, 10:02 PM   #5
Smokey Joe
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Clean cases...

D M Clark 523--Yours is a legitimate question. As to clean inside cases, most of us who reload don't pay much attention to the inside of the case, unless it has some actual chunks of crud stuck in there--or been dropped in the mud, or some such. And yours are .45 ACP's into which one can look much more easily than in most cases, especially bottle-necked ones.

We clean the outside of the case, mostly to keep the case from carrying something into the resizing die which might scratch the inside of the die.

When the next charge goes off in a reloaded case, it's dirty all over again inside instantly, anyhow. No need to worry about that.

Looks like your Case #1 might have something stuck in the flash hole. No need to worry there, either. Your depriming rod will push out the stuck item along with the primer.

So, no worries. Given no further complications, I'd load both of the cases you have pictured and shoot 'em. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat again until the case splits. Target-level loads especially: Low power, and you need lots of ammo for practice. So when the individual .45 ACP case fails that one case gets scrapped, and reload the rest.

Good that you have an experienced reloader for a mentor. If youwant something more, get The ABC's of Reloading published by Krause, www.krause.com and read that--lots and lots of good info. Should be able to get it online, or at a gun sho, or LGS, or order direct from Krause.

One further thought: with .45 ACP's recently there have been a few made with SMALL pistol primer pockets. Most have large pistol primer pockets. You just want to keep these 2 separate when you are priming. The difference is easy to spot. According to my reading, there is no difference ballistically between the two primer sizes in .45 ACP. Likewise, the oversize primer flash holes in the "nontoxic" cases, seem to make no difference ballistically. The NT primer the factory loaded, needs the larger hole, but for the regular primers you'll be loading, the enlarged flash hole makes no discernible difference when firing.

Hope I've helped more than confused. Oh, and welcome to The Magnificent Obsession: Reloading!
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