Okay, I have a lot of semi-auto brass. Since I rarely go out on holiday weekends I have been working on brass management. Finally got it all sorted. A few weeks ago I took care of all the revolver brass, deprimed, cleaned, and most of it reloaded and ready to go.
Yesterday from 7 am until 11pm I had the tumbler running getting as many 2# batches of brass cleaned as I could. The last batch of .45acp will be going in the tumbler in about an hour when the current batch is done. Finished depriming all the .380 this morning, have 3 batches to run through the tumble. That will take the rest of the day tumbler time wise. Can't believe the amount of .380 brass I have picked up from the range. Used to be rare to find it, now it seems a lot of people are shooting it. I estimate close to 1000 cases in the 6.5 pounds I have.
I'll off and on work on depriming 9mm today, and at least have enough to run a few batches in the tumbler tomorrow. My goal is to have all the pistol brass deprimed and cleaned by the end of the month.
Then I'll think about all the .223/5.56 brass I have accumulated. I don't shoot a whole lot of .223/5.56 so a decision will have to be made with the brass I have collected over the years.
For now, I am getting ready to start sorting the .45acp brass I have done. Should be interesting to see the ration of small vs large primers.
Yesterday from 7 am until 11pm I had the tumbler running getting as many 2# batches of brass cleaned as I could. The last batch of .45acp will be going in the tumbler in about an hour when the current batch is done. Finished depriming all the .380 this morning, have 3 batches to run through the tumble. That will take the rest of the day tumbler time wise. Can't believe the amount of .380 brass I have picked up from the range. Used to be rare to find it, now it seems a lot of people are shooting it. I estimate close to 1000 cases in the 6.5 pounds I have.
I'll off and on work on depriming 9mm today, and at least have enough to run a few batches in the tumbler tomorrow. My goal is to have all the pistol brass deprimed and cleaned by the end of the month.
Then I'll think about all the .223/5.56 brass I have accumulated. I don't shoot a whole lot of .223/5.56 so a decision will have to be made with the brass I have collected over the years.
For now, I am getting ready to start sorting the .45acp brass I have done. Should be interesting to see the ration of small vs large primers.