Is this a serious problem or not

[Art Dirindin]

Gotta love my 12 year old always trying to help dad because he works so much. Came back from a day at the range and after unloading and putting my gear and rifles away, tended to other responsibilities in the yard and garage when the wife calls me in because she's hearing a strange noise she thinks coming from dryer.
Nope immediately recognized it as my vibratory brass cleaner, but it shoud be off as it's empty. Find out my 12yo decided to empty all my fired 300wsm brass in it to clean them as a surprise.

Unfortunately he mixed 1× fired wth 2x, 3x, and 4x fired brass that I always keep segregated accordingly.

So now what do I do? Use my Redding body die only and resize them all? As that's all I can think of. Or is it no big deal and just reload them as I would normally.

These are 60 pieces of brass from the same maker and lot of 100, so at least I have that going for me.

I measured them all and length wise they all are within +/- 0.005" of each other.

If this is a problem how do I deal wth it or is it no big deal. Keep in mind I'm only in the load development stage and not shooting long range yet.
Thanks,
Arthur

 

[RonAKA]

The issue is that they will now all have bass in the neck that has a different strength, and will give different bullet seating tensions. If you don't shoot for accuracy, then perhaps just leave them mixed. But, the ideal solution would be to anneal them (neck&shoulder) all and start counting the firings over again.

 

[Richard Coody]

The issue is that they will now all have bass in the neck that has a different strength, and will give different bullet seating tensions. If you don't shoot for accuracy, then perhaps just leave them mixed. But, the ideal solution would be to anneal them (neck&shoulder) all and start counting the firings over again.

+1

Yep the cure is anneal, full length resize and trim. Of.course sort by manufacturer. You might even want to sort by weight after that.

He was just trying to be a part of the activity.

 

[Sniper338]

As far as round count goes on the cases you will know when one goes bad when reloading. Not really a huge deal. Id clean them all good, anneal the necks and shoulders as tumbling hardens them, as the first post was referring to.. then keep developing a load... when you find a load you can start on new brass again when these start going south..

Bigger issue is the boy messing with reloading stuff... dont get me wrong if I have boys i want them in there learning with me too, I cant wait. But he needs to know the boundries of what he can and cant touch or mess with. Hes at that age he wants to be in there and do that stuff obviously, but its dangerous when he doesnt know. Start teaching, best safety is knowledge!

 

[johnfred1965]

Problem? I wish I could get my grandkids to help me out once in a while. Congratulations.

As for the brass, any chance you have a seating force gauge? You might sort cases by seating force to be more consistent

 

[jimbires]

is there any sign of the number of firings on the case ? like a scratch on the shoulder that happens each time , or maybe a light ejector mark , just anything that you could count to try and separate in batches again .

I'm a self taught reloader , and I started when I was 14 . give this young fella some guidance , and keep him interested . he's going to be just fine . you're a lucky Dad , my son doesn't have any interest . I have my fingers crossed my 4 year old grandson is interested .