Bucket o' Brass
So we are about 45 days back from New Mexico and our annual prairie dog hunt. I have cleaned our guns and they are put away. I just finished cleaning all the brass - and it looks like this: You are viewing about 5,000 rounds of .223 brass. Why the bags? Well, in the close bag are 500 rounds of Federal Gold Match cases. They need to have the primer pockets swaged because the primers were glued in. The back bag is brass that we have annealed. Annealing extends the life of the case. Our hypothesis is that we will not be able to tell the difference, and thus, it is not worth our time to anneal all this brass. But in order to test that hypothesis, we need to have some data. And that is the reason those rounds are kept separate. The rest of the brass in the SIX-gallon bucket are ready to be resized and reloaded. We have long lost count of how many times these cases have been reloaded. Some only once, some close to ten times already. Not that the number matters. We inspe