OK, I have a confession: For the first few months I was keeping track of which cases had been used in which previous batches of reloads, but after a while I gave up and I'm not tracking how many times a case has been fired or at what pressure, just sorting by headstamp for those in which I have anything other than Starline. I'm loading .357 mag, .44 mag, 10 mm and 32-20, cautiously for the 32-20 and from starting to near-max in the higher pressure calibers.
I have been measuring the case heads of at least some of each batch of fired brass, and haven't seen any that have changed. I do have some muffin-topped primers from all but the 32-20, but just rounded by a few thousandths, except one WW SP from a 16 gr 2400 under 125 gr plated bullet, which came out flattened out to 0.190" with sharper corners (weirdly, none of the 17 grain rounds looked like that).
So am I cruising for a bruising, or do you just watch for distressed brass and lump all the empties together in a bag?
brass record keeping
1IMR4227: Zero to 900 in 0.001 seconds
I'm only killing paper and my self-esteem.
I'm only killing paper and my self-esteem.