Worth keeping American eagle brass for reloading?

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I plan to someday get into reloading and am wondering if american eagle brass is good enough to keep for reloads in the future?

I'm also keeping hornady brass but I have read it is not very good for reloading should I still hang on to it?
 
I use AE brass for plinking loads in my 223, in my opinion AE brass is perfectly fine to reload in any calibre.

I've heard lots of good from Hornady too, but depending on what you want to reload for all brands of brass are reloadable.

Some brands of brass are definately better than others though, and people are willing to pay a premium to buy the new.
 
Depends on what you're reloading. Some rounds (like .45ACP) are such low pressure, you can reload any brass for them just fine again and again and again. Others you can't. Generally speaking, pistol brass (straight walled) can be reloaded more times than rifle. Some rifle rounds can only be reloaded 3-4 times; others more. It all depends.

Some brass manufacturers (for rifle) have softer or harder brass, regardless of caliber. Others will probably disagree with me, but since I don't do any match shooting with my rifle and toss the rifle brass after 4-5 firings even if it may look fine, such distinctions don't concern me.

What caliber are you referring to specifically?
 
if you can re-prime it, use it. Hornady brass is just fine. AE is also just fine. If you want match quality from a match quality gun, then invest in Lapua rifle brass.

I have ice cream buckets full of old brass I have collected at the range and re-used. Berdan primned and steel cases stay away from, but and boxer primed brass is reloadable. Need to de-crimp military primer pockets, but it is still very useable stuff.
 
Melnibonean said:
Depends on what you're reloading. Some rounds (like .45ACP) are such low pressure, you can reload any brass for them just fine again and again and again. Others you can't. Generally speaking, pistol brass (straight walled) can be reloaded more times than rifle. Some rifle rounds can only be reloaded 3-4 times; others more. It all depends.

Some brass manufacturers (for rifle) have softer or harder brass, regardless of caliber. Others will probably disagree with me, but since I don't do any match shooting with my rifle and toss the rifle brass after 4-5 firings even if it may look fine, such distinctions don't concern me.

What caliber are you referring to specifically?
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The American eagle brass would be in 223 Remington and the hornady is in both 223 rem and 22-250 Remington.
 
American Eagle cases marked F C? Federal brass. I've loaded a few times in 223 and been happy with it. Had to remove primer crimps first time around.
 
shooter33 said:
The American eagle brass would be in 223 Remington and the hornady is in both 223 rem and 22-250 Remington.
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I reload for the .223 and have used both of those brands, as my brass is picked up from the range. You won't have any trouble with them. Bear in mind to check them for damage (as with any brand) and to remember that they do have a finite number of times you can reload them. YMMV on the average number of times, but I've gotten up to 7 reloads from my .223 brass on some occassions; other times, 4 or 5.

AE have crimped primers (if I remember correctly). If you can't remove the crimp, this topic is academic. In that case, sell them on EE or I will gladly take them off your hands :D
 
All my hornady brass has been crimped. My fed/Ae stuff as well. I have winchester, remington, federal, lake city, and hornady brass all of it seems to be good to me. Lots of it of on the 6x firing and still in good shape.
 
I bought a pile of AE ammo and it was all stamped LC, it was during the ammo shortage scare just after Obummer was elected and AE ended up sourcing Brass from where ever they could. Mine even has the Nato Stamp on it. Great Brass, they do use a variety of different brass, some great, some not so great
 
Most AE brass is made by Federal. I reload that stuff for my AR routinely.

As for the primer pocket, you only have to ream it once to remove the crimp. After that you're golden.
 
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