Finally a use for split cases

[Scott Tschirhart]

I have been throwing split cases away but I think I found a good use for them.

I’m loading fire lapping loads in the split cases because I’ll never have to worry about using them again.

[JimT]

I make 480 Achilles out of split .45 Colt cases ... IF the split is short.

[Griff]

Whenever I split a case, it seems it's only good for the recycle bin:

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[JimT]

My tight chambered Linebaugh .45 Colt don't usually do that. Guns with larger chambers do.

[Walt]

I don't remember ever losing a case in my Freedom Arms guns.

[Old No7]

Whenever I split a case, it seems it's only good for the recycle bin:

Wrong... I get from $160 to $220 per year for 2 to 3 80% full 5-gallon buckets of dirty range brass that others leave behind. I take it to a metal recycling shop in Portland and after they check it all with a magnet, I walk out with a check ranging from $70 to $80 per bucket. It gives me something to do when resting my hands or eyes in-between groups of magnum pistol loads, or while waiting for a rifle barrel to cool. Any brass I may scrap goes in the bucket too. It pays for my reloading hobby very well.

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[Griff]

Aye, my recycle bin goes to the metal recycler to help pay for my habit also... I don't leave it for the trash company to take my income from me!

[Scott Tschirhart]

I don’t have that much brass to recycle.

But I was just slinging the split cases out into the brush on my range. This is a use that works for me.

[JimT]

I have 2 containers for brass. One with live primers and one with no primers. I pick up all the live ammo I find on the range. So far this year I have picked up 47 .22 Long Rifle ... 7 5.56 ..... 5 .308 .... 11 9mm ..

The ones that are undamaged and have not been snapped on get sorted out. The damaged ones I pull the bullets and put them in the re-melt pile. The .22's I salvage the powder for reloading .22's ... all the brass including 22's I pop the primers, deprime and put them in the no primer case.

Last year I took a nice load of scrap iron and brass to the metal recyclers and turned it into lead.

[Scott Tschirhart]

Now that I cured the Ruger/Marlin .45 Colt, I’ve been lapping the machine marks out of the throat.

It’s a multi weekend project because I like to clean down to bare metal before using the next finer grit.

[JimT]

Let me know how that's going. Our gun doesn't seem to need it ... the throat is pretty good. I shoved an oversize bullet into the rifling and then pushed it back out ...

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[Scott Tschirhart]

I was using the larger grit yesterday and it cleaned up very easily. I don’t think it needs any more but I’m going to run through them anyway. Just to polish it a bit.