9mm questions ...

[scott1970]

AMERC brand 9mm brass is garbage, and that's where it goes when I find some in my stash.

 

[rosewood]

I would save the new brass for hot loads and the used brass for target. For plinking, I don't worry about sorting headstamps (besides culling those bad ones mentioned above). If I am developing an accuracy load, then I match headstamps.

Rosewood

 

[bigjeepman]

I would save the new brass for hot loads and the used brass for target. For plinking, I don't worry about sorting headstamps (besides culling those bad ones mentioned above). If I am developing an accuracy load, then I match headstamps.

Rosewood

That's what I will do except for the "hot" part as I have been at the "comfortably accurate" load stage for many years. I have around 300 of the sorted range brass primed and ready to load. I think they will be plenty good for shooting plates and clays.

 

[Ron IL]

I have two I discard for sure. One as previously mentioned is AMERC. The other one is 'wms'. I think it is a military brand. It may bend your deprimer stem and can't get the primer out or if you do, then the new primer either won't go in or it goes in and falls out. It is automatically trashed.

 

[Nevada Ed]

A "Hot load" is just a term...........

98% of this style of load depends on the weight of the pistol, the powder type used and maybe the type of recoil spring in the weapon as well as
the ability of the shooter.

Shooting a 38 oz. 3.5" is a lot different than a 21 oz. 3" pistol with the same load.

A full +P load in a 3" Kahr, fired out of my C9 3.5" pistol feel like a standard factor load and a target load out of my heavy 5" Milt. spec weapon.

I beleive this is why there are so many fluxuations in a 115gr FMJ by all the companies.
The different fps, lets you pick a box of ammo that feels right in your certain weapon........
since most of use don't want to shoot Underwood ammo all day long.

 

[ChillyDog]

I've found stepped brass too. Maxxtech has a step in it and I'm not sure if it can be reloaded but I haven't tried, I toss it in the scrap bucket. Some others to keep an eye out for is Freedommution had a brand American steel, which was a brass coating over a steel case. Find those with a magnet. Makarov is like said above is 9 x 18. 9mm luger is 9 x 19. My advice is to check, check and recheck. Read and educate yourself. inspect your brass and start low. Enjoy reloading.

 

[gregintenn]

If you find any AMERC brass, don't just throw it away, crush it first with a vise so no other poor fella can stumble across it someday and try to load it.
I don't know where that junk comes from as I've never seen any loaded ammo marked as such, but if I did, I'd be afraid to shoot it.

 

[rosewood]

I guess I should have better chose my words. Instead of "hot" loads I should have said max loads or near max.

 

[bigjeepman]

I guess I should have better chose my words. Instead of "hot" loads I should have said max loads or near max.

No problem at all ... that is what I thought you meant. My reply of "comfortably accurate" meant most of my pistol loads are middle of the road or slightly higher with few exceptions.

 

[S&WIowegan]

AMERC is junk...

..junk and junk. I don't know where it comes from but it's terrible stuff. I don't see as much of it any more so maybe they're out of business.

Most brass (foreign or domestic) is good. I don't use stepped brass but don't see it much. I think the step is to support the bullet from going deeper.

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

BRASS

Thank you for the replies ... all good, sound advice. I tried to use my favorite brass, Starline, or another I have used a lot ... Winchester. Problem is that in this market and in this area, I have yet to see any available. So I will use this mixed brass until availability improves in the future.

For those interested, here is a picture of the head stamp on the stepped brass I showed earlier. I have no idea what this head stamp says ...

You have a incoming offer to sell you a case of new brass. I believe it is 2000 pcs.