If you want to save some bucks, go to the Kenmore Range and buy 9mm range brass for $4/lb. This works out to about $3.50 per hundred pieces of brass. Sure it's range brass but a lot of it is new. For some reason there are a lot of shooters that turn up their noses at reloading 9mm. A lot of the shooters on the pistol range during the weekend are non-members and also non-reloaders. They bring boxes of new ammo with them that's just swept up.
If you only kept 1/5th of it you'd still be ahead..
Yeah. I kind of still remember the dire warnings about brass that has gone through glocks. Don't know if that was an old wives tale, but a lot of the brass I see on the ground is bulging near the base. That scares me. But yeah, I guess you're right. If I only use a fraction of what I sort through I would be ahead.
Funny you should mention people not wanting to load 9mm. Lots of folks will tell you 9mm and 223 are the worst to load. I haven't loaded 223 (only 30-30, 308, and 30-06) I have loaded enough 9mm to have found it's no big deal. Is it harder to set the taper crimp than on a 45? you have to be a little more precise because everything is smaller, but it's no big deal!
I have only used brass I've shot so far. I have about 500 cases at any one time, and rarely shoot more than 75 out of the 9mm at any one session. Mainly because my M&P isn't a target gun. I spend more time with my 22s for precision shooting. But that is about to change as I get into competition.
I'll buy Once-Fired brass if I can find it for cheap. Otherwise I'll pick up the brass from indoor ranges, outdoor ranges, or anywhere I can find them. Just recently my boys and I picked up some brass from out in the woods near the house and Wet Tumbled it in Stainless Steel Media.
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