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m&p45acp10+1 · December 17, 2012, 06:54 PM

For auto loader brass I try to recover a few pieces of the brass I loaded if I am working up a load. I color the bottom of them with a sharpie marker, or paint them with my wife's nail polish to tell them apart from the brass of the other people that left their brass on the ground.

Other than that inspect brass with each step of reloading. I have never had a piece of auto brass that was too long, and needed trimming. I have had more than few that split at the case mouth after expanding. In that instance I toss the brass into the recycle can.

For revolver brass I paper clip test them, and load like normal. After enough times they tend to split at the case mouth. 99.9% of the time it is on the expanding step. I toss those into the recycle can as well.

Rifle brass is another animal of its own.

December 17, 2012, 06:54 PM	#7
m&p45acp10+1 Senior Member Join Date: May 3, 2009 Location: Central Texas Posts: 3,930	For auto loader brass I try to recover a few pieces of the brass I loaded if I am working up a load. I color the bottom of them with a sharpie marker, or paint them with my wife's nail polish to tell them apart from the brass of the other people that left their brass on the ground. Other than that inspect brass with each step of reloading. I have never had a piece of auto brass that was too long, and needed trimming. I have had more than few that split at the case mouth after expanding. In that instance I toss the brass into the recycle can. For revolver brass I paper clip test them, and load like normal. After enough times they tend to split at the case mouth. 99.9% of the time it is on the expanding step. I toss those into the recycle can as well. Rifle brass is another animal of its own. __________________ No matter how many times you do it and nothing happens it only takes something going wrong one time to kill you.