9mm brass and bullets

[SpecRacer]

About Bass Pro...........

I have a $25 gift card from last Christmas that has yet to be used............
does that give you a clue of what I think about that store?

However I do have a Scheel's, Sportsman's Whse. and a Cabela's inside 8 miles from my house.

When they are on sale, they have great cargo pants with deep front pockets. My favorite.

 

[fredj338]

Keep in mind as your read this story that my local Bass Pro Shop charges $27 with tax for 100 new 9mm cases.

I went to the range today. Not my outdoor club range which is closed for lead removal, but to an indoor pay to play range. It is brass heaven! I fired 50 9 mm rounds in a half hour and left with 190 9mm empty cases. I think it more than worth the $13 price they charge for all day at the range and not fire one shot, just to pick up all the brass.

Which was my point about buying say 1000rds of quality 9mm, brass cased, & shooting that for the brass. Even buying once fired, say $50/1000, so 5c each + 3c for a primer, 1c for powder & call it 8c for a bullet, you are at 17-18cc per round & have to reload it. What is 1000 Blaser brass in 9mm these days, $210, 21c each?

 

[mtgianni]

I believe that 9mm and cast are a great mix. The smoke and soot is a function of lube and fit. My cartridges run me $5.50 a hundred with cost of $1 a lb for lead, 4 gr of AA2 in a 6 lb jug and $25.00 a K primers.

 

[SpecRacer]

Which was my point about buying say 1000rds of quality 9mm, brass cased, & shooting that for the brass. Even buying once fired, say $50/1000, so 5c each + 3c for a primer, 1c for powder & call it 8c for a bullet, you are at 17-18cc per round & have to reload it. What is 1000 Blaser brass in 9mm these days, $210, 21c each?

And, that is less than what I can find per round locally for .22 ammo.

 

[SpecRacer]

I believe that 9mm and cast are a great mix. The smoke and soot is a function of lube and fit. My cartridges run me $5.50 a hundred with cost of $1 a lb for lead, 4 gr of AA2 in a 6 lb jug and $25.00 a K primers.

Do you cast your own? What mold do you like? How hard is the mixture? What do you use for lube?

 

[mtgianni]

I use water dropped wheel weights for 9mm, 356402 and the NOE 135 gr fn. 358242 is another great shooter. Lube with Felix and fit to the throat.

 

[e3mrk]

I found that the 124 gr.works better in My Pistols than the 115 gr does.

 

[Fishslayer]

All the pennies here & pennies there & 1K round cases discussion becomes moot when nobody has any ammo anywhere. That HAS happened ya know, and recently too.

 

[rsrocket1]

Reloading stores near Reno

About Bass Pro...........

I have a $25 gift card from last Christmas that has yet to be used............
does that give you a clue of what I think about that store?

However I do have a Scheel's, Sportsman's Whse. and a Cabela's inside 8 miles from my house.

Sportsman's Warehouse in Reno near the Costco is a good store. They don't price gouge, but consequently have had very low inventories of powder lately (like in the past 2 years). The one in Rocklin got quite a few Hodgdon kegs of Titewad and Universal (like Unique), but the price hikes on the Universal made it unattractive ($180). I did get 8# Titegroup there a few weeks back for $138 before tax. If you catch them when they get 8# jugs of Alliant powder, they were still charging $120 the last go around. Scheel's is pretty good to although a little more expensive and Cabelas in Verdi is even more expensive.

They opened a BPS in Rocklin a few months ago and their prices were completely out of whack. At least $100 more for any gun you could otherwise buy locally, $30-$40/# for powders and just about everything else 25-33% more expensive.

Personally, I'd use their gift card on clearance clothing or maybe a kid's pop gun.

 

[federali]

El Foundo Groundo

Yup. whatever I can pick up at my local outdoor range. I also commit the sin of of not sorting my brass by headstamp or most any other criteria. If it's clean, not Berdan primed, hasn't been stepped on or show obvious signs of having been reloaded, I'll use it.

Frankly, I've used virgin brass and scrounged brass and at least in my 9mms, I see no difference in accuracy.

 

[hard nose street cop]

Specracer
Concerning 9MM brass don't mix different brands of 9MM brass, they have different internal powder capacity and mouth thickness, which will effect your grouping
Try not to use Military brass this brass has less internal powder capacity than commercial brass, also there is a primer pocket crimp which is trouble to deal with. For long life of your brass don't flare the case mouth too much, in fact just enough to seat the bullet, use just enough taper crimp to prevent bullet set back in the case while chambering a round.

 

[carpriver]

I have been using mixed range brass (the same brass) for 5 or 6 years, it's a mix of Remington, Winchester and Federal, all the brass in from the ammo i shot before i started reloading. I use it for plinking. I use AA#2 or AA#5, Green dot and Hy Skoor 700. What ever i have the most of. I like a full medal jacket so I buy Rainer Copper jacketed bullets. I reload with Lee equipment. Reload for a while get several powders , you will find one you like better.

 

[M3Stuart]

Dude. (IMHO) Don't buy 9mm brass. You could start with a couple hundred of whatever you have on hand and it'll GRROOOOOWWW all by itself. Before you know it, you'll have 9mm brass coming out of your ears. Oh, and it's a pain to sort by headstamp.

Soooo, my advice; don't buy it, don't sort it by headstamp and doooonn't worry about running out of it!

 

[SpecRacer]

All the pennies here & pennies there & 1K round cases discussion becomes moot when nobody has any ammo anywhere. That HAS happened ya know, and recently too.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[SpecRacer]

All the pennies here & pennies there & 1K round cases discussion becomes moot when nobody has any ammo anywhere. That HAS happened ya know, and recently too.

I have no idea what these two sentences mean.