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DeadCalm · November 27, 1999, 02:21 AM

While buying a box of .38 Special cartridges today, the clerk handing them over said that I should buy PMC brand, because they provided the best brass for reloading. I have heard such things said about rifle brass, in terms of case wall thicknesses, number of reloads, and just the fit in a particular rifle's chamber. Do any of these, or other factors, apply to pistol brass?

I don't reload now, having thought I wouldn't shoot enough to justify it. That has changed as I seem to have developed a serious four-box-per-week habit. I shoot primarily .45 ACP, 230 gr. FMJs, and .38/.357s, 125 gr. JHPs. Should I be buying specific inexpensive store-bought loads now, toward that day soon when I start to reload?

Your help is appreciated.

November 27, 1999, 02:21 AM	#1
DeadCalm Member Join Date: August 18, 1999 Posts: 84	While buying a box of .38 Special cartridges today, the clerk handing them over said that I should buy PMC brand, because they provided the best brass for reloading. I have heard such things said about rifle brass, in terms of case wall thicknesses, number of reloads, and just the fit in a particular rifle's chamber. Do any of these, or other factors, apply to pistol brass? I don't reload now, having thought I wouldn't shoot enough to justify it. That has changed as I seem to have developed a serious four-box-per-week habit. I shoot primarily .45 ACP, 230 gr. FMJs, and .38/.357s, 125 gr. JHPs. Should I be buying specific inexpensive store-bought loads now, toward that day soon when I start to reload? Your help is appreciated.