How many cases per caliber in yalls "lots"???

[BuildingConceptsllc]

I'm just curious how everyone else does it with new brass vs fired brass. I normally have 200 or 300 count lots of brass that I'm using for whatever caliber.

I see all these guys selling 100 count lots of brass and I was just wondering if most others keep their brass in 100 count lots and have multiple lots they shoot regularly or shoot one 100 count lot until it's not holding primers then do another 100?

100 isn't enough to shoot very many events so I was curious how yall do things.

 

[hafejd30]

I'm just curious how everyone else does it with new brass vs fired brass. I normally have 200 or 300 count lots of brass that I'm using for whatever caliber.

I see all these guys selling 100 count lots of brass and I was just wondering if most others keep their brass in 100 count lots and have multiple lots they shoot regularly or shoot one 100 count lot until it's not holding primers then do another 100?

100 isn't enough to shoot very many events so I was curious how yall do things.

I do both

My fclass and regularly used target guns have 200-400 pieces here. I generally cycle through 200 at a time. The hunting or less used rigs just run off a 100 round box of Lapua. Which for most of those guns will fulfill its life of service for what it’s used for

 

[BuildingConceptsllc]

I do both

My fclass and regularly used target guns have 200-400 pieces here. I generally cycle through 200 at a time. The hunting or less used rigs just run off a 100 round box of Lapua. Which for most of those guns will fulfill its life of service for what it’s used for

I didn't think about that for hunting rifles. 300 I think is the best number to have per lot.

 

[hafejd30]

I didn't think about that for hunting rifles. 300 I think is the best number to have per lot.

You can never have to much. The rifle/caliber and use dictates it for me. If you don’t need a ton of rounds for a comp and are just a general shooter then having 200-400 on hand is a good idea. For me personally I go “new barrel new brass”. So I have the same lot on hand but may end up using it for new barrel etc

 

[OkieMike]

I'm not a people person so matches aren't my thing... This is what works for me and it mostly depends on the rifle...

• Magnum bolt gun: 100 works for me. 50 to load and 50 in reserve.

• Wife's bolt gun: again, 100 pcs. 50 active, 50 extra in reserve. She only shoots about 25% of what I do... 100 cases will last her years.

• Gas guns/Pistols: However many dump truck loads I can get my grubby hands on... Although I hate loading for both of those platforms.

Just my $.02

Mike

 

[BuildingConceptsllc]

You can never have to much. The rifle/caliber and use dictates it for me. If you don’t need a ton of rounds for a comp and are just a general shooter then having 200-400 on hand is a good idea. For me personally I go “new barrel new brass”. So I have the same lot on hand but may end up using it for new barrel etc

For sure. I'm not talking about how much brass I have, just how much in a single "lot" that I'm shooting, and then processing it all, then shooting again ect...

 

[338dude]

50 cases per lot for me but I don’t shoot matches, I’m just a hunter and I have a 400 yard range in my backyard.

 

[BuildingConceptsllc]

50 cases per lot for me but I don’t shoot matches, I’m just a hunter and I have a 400 yard range in my backyard.

Do you have several of those 50 round lots that you are using at a time or you shoot the 50 until it's spent then start with another 50 virgin or 1x fired or whatever? I'm just curious is all

 

[338dude]

Do you have several of those 50 round lots that you are using at a time or you shoot the 50 until it's spent then start with another 50 virgin or 1x fired or whatever? I'm just curious is all

I usually try to keep around 200 for every rifle but work off of 50 round lots until their spent then we’ll work on the next 50 round lot

 

[mheimer_45]

Hmmm I seem to be the odd man out. I’ve got several “lots” of 1000 plus. Ar’s get one headstamp. 77’s get a different headstamp than say 52’s. Bolt gun .223’s may have 500. Same for .308. I run thru everything of the same headstamp before I use it again. But then again I’m not sorting cases by weight just internal volume. Now saying 6.5 creed or Grendel if I buy 1000 pieces half goes to the bolt gun and half to gas gun.

 

[338dude]

I’m just now getting into the six Arc gas gun reloading, started out with 100 Lapua in 220 Russian to form into six arc. With that said I guess I will be forming all 100 so I will be working with a lot of 100 for this caliber.

 

[spamassassin]

I figure out what my expected barrel life is and then by 1/10th that number of cases +20% of whatever the fractional quantity comes to with the expectation that I'll get an average of 10 loads per case and that I'll lose or cull 20% over the life of the barrel. I'll typically buy all the brass, bullets, powder and primers that I'm going to use in that barrel before I even buy the barrel. The whole lot of brass, whatever the quantity, is treated as a single lot. If I load 50 of 200 cases then I wait till I've shot the other 150 before processing them beyond the depriming stage. That way I don't have to track what firing they're on, just if they've got a spent primer in them or not.

 

[High Desert duck]

For my race guns I like 500 cases on hand per caliber.
Hunting guns get 100.

 

[BuildingConceptsllc]

I figure out what my expected barrel life is and then by 1/10th that number of cases +20% of whatever the fractional quantity comes to with the expectation that I'll get an average of 10 loads per case and that I'll lose or cull 20% over the life of the barrel. I'll typically buy all the brass, bullets, powder and primers that I'm going to use in that barrel before I even buy the barrel. The whole lot of brass, whatever the quantity, is treated as a single lot. If I load 50 of 200 cases then I wait till I've shot the other 150 before processing them beyond the depriming stage. That way I don't have to track what firing they're on, just if they've got a spent primer in them or not.

That's my reasoning for asking about this. How best to keep up with how many times they've been fired ect and I thought I'd see how yall do it. I basically have either 200 per lot in use or 300 per lot in use, and shoot those until they start showing dead ones, then chunk em all and start with a fresh virgin lot again. I get way over 10 loads per though

 

[BuildingConceptsllc]

For my race guns I like 500 cases on hand per caliber.
Hunting guns get 100.

Yeah. Match ammo is what I should have asked about. I keep a bunch of federal brass and lake city brass for my blaster or "I don't want to tend brass" ammo

 

[spamassassin]

That's my reasoning for asking about this. How best to keep up with how many times they've been fired ect and I thought I'd see how yall do it. I basically have either 200 per lot in use or 300 per lot in use, and shoot those until they start showing dead ones, then chunk em all and start with a fresh virgin lot again. I get way over 10 loads per though

That's more or less why I use the 10x fired number as a benchmark. At 10x I'm not discarding cases due to wear and tear so there's no failures. I had some issues in the past with going too long and getting case head seps in matches. Once the barrel is fried I chuck it and the brass and start again. If a lot starts showing signs of overuse I just toss the lot of them.

 

[CK1.0]

I run 300 pieces until they die, then I start over with 300 cases again. IMO 3-4x fired is the magic number for best accuracy and the point where the cases stabalize and basically stay the same for the rest of their lives until they die.

I figure that's few enough to get multiple firings on the brass, but still allows me to have enough on-hand for practice and matches (figuring ~200 rounds or less is usually what's needed for a 2-day).

I run Lapua and/or Alpha, and without beating on them I have been getting 2 barrels (~7-8 firings per barrel) out of 300 cases, replacing the relative few that get lost or die off with Hornady until it's time to start a new 300.

 

[BuildingConceptsllc]

I run 300 pieces until they die, then I start over with 300 cases again. IMO 3-4x fired is the magic number for best accuracy and the point where the cases stabalize and basically stay the same for the rest of their lives until they die.

I figure that's few enough to get multiple firings on the brass, but still allows me to have enough on-hand for practice and matches (figuring ~200 rounds or less is usually what's needed for a 2-day).

I run Lapua and/or Alpha, and without beating on them I have been getting 2 barrels (~7-8 firings per barrel) out of 300 cases, replacing the relative few that get lost or die off with Hornady until it's time to start a new 300.

That's how I've been doing it but I did it with 200 pc lots and have another 300 pc lot now that only has a few firings on it. Then when I burn the barrel up, I will move on with that brass and start new. This one is a modBB one though, so if I should be able to get 10x or more on this lot, just have to see how that barrel holds up for me. This one I'm talking about is a 6cm so it's a burner but I don't run it super hot so I'm hoping to get 3500 rounds out of it

 

[CK1.0]

That's how I've been doing it but I did it with 200 pc lots and have another 300 pc lot now that only has a few firings on it. Then when I burn the barrel up, I will move on with that brass and start new. This one is a modBB one though, so if I should be able to get 10x or more on this lot, just have to see how that barrel holds up for me. This one I'm talking about is a 6cm so it's a burner but I don't run it super hot so I'm hoping to get 3500 rounds out of it

3500rds on a 6CM barrel would be amazing, I know the modBB barrels are supposed to go longer, but that'd be a lot, I hope it gets there.

I got 2300rds out of my last 6CM barrel running ~2850-2900fps and jumping a bunch, and I'm hoping to get that again with my current one, same brass.

I'll be going Gay Tiger next, same plan, hoping for more like ~2500rds per barrel though, I'll see anyway...

 

[OREGUN]

That's how I've been doing it but I did it with 200 pc lots and have another 300 pc lot now that only has a few firings on it. Then when I burn the barrel up, I will move on with that brass and start new. This one is a modBB one though, so if I should be able to get 10x or more on this lot, just have to see how that barrel holds up for me. This one I'm talking about is a 6cm so it's a burner but I don't run it super hot so I'm hoping to get 3500 rounds out of it

I got 2600 factory Hornady 108 ELDM 6CM out of my MODBB before it totally shit the bed…..1/2 inch groups to 1.5” groups nearly instantaneously between 2600 and 2700. Keep us posted on your 3500 goal.

To answer the question, I keep 300 rounds of brass ready with a barrel as that has been enough to get me through any 1,2,or even 3 day events I’ve shot. Not necessarily from the same lot…for example, I have 200/100 for a BRA barrel. They anneal a little differently, and I keep them separated, but they size to the same dimension for the same barrel. If possible though, I try to buy brass in groups of 300 of the same lot.

 

[Wssickta]

My first comp gun I ran 300 pcs of brass. That worked great for one day matches as you could get 2 matches plus a bit of practice between cycles. When you shoot two day matches, that forced your hand on a complete turn around every time. Which sucks! After two ~2k round barrels my 13x fired Lapua/dasher brass was splitting and toast, so I decided to try the gt. I bought 600 pcs for it and have been much happier. Keep 300pcs loaded or primed ready to load and 300pcs can be somewhere in the reloading process. That way your one evening away from match ready if one sneaks up on you.