Re: people collecting brass at the range
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: timelinex</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I totally understand the selling brass side to it. I have picked up brass myself as well. That isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about picking up specific calibers to reload.
So if you full length resize any combo of 308 you can still achieve good accuracy with it using the same load? (.5moa, if rifle, shooter and reload is actually up to it)
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If people are shooting factory ammo, sure...just FL size it, trim it, do the primer pockets, SORT it by headstamp and bag it away for a rainy day. Brass is your largest chunk of the reloading cost. After you pick up enough of the common headstamps, you'll have enough for 'batches' of like brands.
I wouldn't use this brass for shooting the big match, but it's eminently suitable for practice ammo, zombie ammo or unappreciative 'brother in law' ammo
You should see all of the RP (green box) .223 I've gotten from AR-15 shooters. It's 1x, not too bad and even if I only get 2-3 more cycles on it, I'm golden.
I have .375 H&H, 300 WM, 270 Win, 30-30 and 30'06 (lots of this stuff) that I asked to have, or fished out of the brass bucket, but I have no weapons for them. One never knows.
I'm a brass rat, but I'm a discriminating one. I don't scrounge the nasty looking ones.
Chris