Recent purchase off 45 ACP Blazers and noticed change to standard primer. Resized and primed with small pistol primer and my light target load. Tested several cylinders full in my 625 3" today and shot great. Anyone else tried this.
Reloading Blazers?
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venomballistics
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I've run a batch of small primer fed.
if there is a difference It's too small to matter.
if there is a difference It's too small to matter.
mr-mom
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Ive reloaded many .45 blazer brass. Works like any other.
Maximumbob54
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Same thing, same results. My guess is that a generation ago they were saying the same thing about .357 magnum cases.
Twoboxer
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I reload nothing but SPP 45ACP brass, probably because I started reloading a few months ago and my brass source was cheap Blazer factory brass.
So you say in olden times they used large primers
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So you say in olden times they used large primers
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There is so much brass out there, that messing with the aluminum is not worth it in my opinion.
Yes...I tried it. I reloaded 8 rounds with my usual load that I use for IDPA. I marked the heads with a red Sharpie so I could tell that I had the same empties. I was going to keep reloading them and see how long they were good for.
Then I realized: 1) I don't want casings splitting in my gun when they reach the end of their lifespan 2) I have more .45 brass than I could ever need in TWO lifetimes and don't need to bother with the aluminum ones.
Yes...the ones I fired worked just fine and looked like they could be used again. ....then I threw them in the trashcan
scattershot
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Aluminum has a tendency to work harden and become brittle. I'm not sure you could reload them more than once, and I would imagine they would split on the first firing.
I've seen some shooters pick up the aluminum blazers to reload and use at "lost brass" matches.
revolvergeek
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I have reloaded some aluminum 9mm and it work just fine. I plan on using them when I am shooting somewhere that make it hard to recoverbrass (one particular local range or the high grass in a buddy's pasture) .
Yes, aluminum can be reloaded, but why? To see if it can be done? OK. For a steady supply of cases? I wouldn't, too short case life. While I've never had a split case damage my gun, I don't really want them either. I believe there are bettter materials for cases for reloading, and easily obtained too.
