How do you track of the number rifle brass has been fired

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I am new to rifle reloading .223. What is the best way to keep track of the number of times rifle brass has been fired..Straight forward for precision rifles... But how do you keep track of high volumes of semi auto brass.

For pistols I have buckets full of brass. I have no idea how many times its been reloaded, I just check it for cracks.
 
count haw many primers are left in the vault :D
I tend to only count the shots fired, but hey thats just me
 
Ziplock bags and Sharpie's in 10 different colours, just colour the primer.
From my electronics class I never forget the colour/# relation. BBROYGBVGW
I only keep track for intrest sake to see home many firings I can get.
SF
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
I don't bother, inspect and discard, some go a few some go many, no point stressing over it.
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This.

Same deal as car tires and a lot of other stuff. Inspect and decide. Unless you have some pressing reason to discard after a given number of loads (like you are loading gorilla level loads and have a history of having to #### about with a case extractor, without learning something from it) then just run by condition.

I suppose you could colour code them or file them, but do you really want to shoot and load, or spend your life filing notches or colouring case ends?

Load them all, shoot them all, reload them all, keep notes. That's the other option.

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Trev
 
that's the ONLY thing that mag limits has made easier- counting rounds- it's FAR easier to keep track of 5/10 than it was 20/30/50- personally, i've NEVER counted times fired as i'm there to HAVE FUN counting rounds is too anal- if you're counting for reloading, your unbent paperclip inspection is going to catch the incipient head seperation anyway, and your inspection is going to catch unfit rounds
if you're looking to sell the gun further down the road, a look down the bore will tell roughly how many ronds through- and if you keep it for years, or lose the paper with that info on it, what good did the exercise do you?
 
If you are loading modest loads you will alot of times get many more than 5 per case, sometimes not.Some guys are 10, 15. All depends on the pressure and how well you tale care of your brass.Again, don't worry about counting, just one more thing to worry about when you should be worried about consistent brass prep and loading.


waynesixgun said:
Thanks for the replies
..I have been reading that you should only reload your case 5 times...Thats easy if you are working with the same 100 cases all the time.
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I shoot them till they fail. So far only have had split necks on the 223.
303 is a bit more exciting when the case head separates. I keep a short cleaning rod with a 410 shot gun brush on it in the range bag for this occasion.
 
fleguel said:
Ziplock bags and Sharpie's in 10 different colours, just colour the primer.
From my electronics class I never forget the colour/# relation. BBROYGBVGW
I only keep track for intrest sake to see home many firings I can get.
SF
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I remember an Air Force instructor telling us how to remember this color code.:)

That was almost a lifetime ago. :eek:

Bad- Boys- Rape- Our -Young- Girls -But- Violet- Goes- Willingly

( The first letter of each word relates to the first letter of the color)
 
For my needs it's far more important to regularly anneal cases (every 6-7 reloads) .

I simply keep extra note in the ammo box with dates of reloads.

Why?Some of my cases have 50+ reloads behind them and I lost track.
 
Rod B said:
I remember an Air Force instructor telling us how to remember this color code.:)

That was almost a lifetime ago. :eek:

Bad- Boys- Rape- Our -Young- Girls -But- Violet- Goes- Willingly

( The first letter of each word relates to the first letter of the color)
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We were taught "Gives" willingly. lol

For my 30-06 Garand's I simply have a new bucket and a shot bucket. When I shot a round at the range and bring home the brass I put it in the shot bucket and keep the reloads coming from the new bucket. When all the new rounds have expired and the shot bucket is full then I increase the count on the shot bucket by one and dump the bucket into the "new" bucket again and continue.

Revolver brass will last a long time, I have 38 spl that I have reloaded for over 35 years. 44 mag brass will wear out quicker but you should still be able to get over 10 reloads out of them.
 
I tend to reload in batches of 50 or 100 and keep those batches in mtm boxes. Also agree about not useing a particular number for discarding, look for split necks and loose primer pockets. I inspect after resizing when seating primers. Most guys develop a routine after reloading for awhile, what works for one person may not work for you.
 
I keep my ammo/brass in MTM boxes, and tag the boxes so I can monitor the number of times the brass has been fired. I do NOT discard at "X" number of firings, but will cull any cases from the lot that show splits, loose primer pockets, etc. I do not mix lots, because I do not want to have 2x fired brass in with the 11X fired brass. Regards, Eagleye.
 
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