Tracking brass number of times fired

[SKWERLZ]

I just keep it in boxes of 50 and put a sharpie mark inside the lid for every firing.

Or, I keep an eye on my primers used and count it that way, as I buy enough powder and primers for each barrel to certainly shoot it out- that way I don’t have to mess with retuning due to lot numbers.

I have a sticker on my boxes of 50 or 100 with date/charge/load number

 

[Mark W]

I don’t generally care how many times my brass has been fired, but I’m careful to keep it all on the same cycle.

 

[Charlie-NY]

All of my brass is in 50rnd boxes where it stays until it is exhausted and tossed. Brass is never mixed.

I use masking tape on the inside of the lid. One piece of tape indicates the load(s). Another piece indicates the number of times reloaded and at what point the brass was trimmed last and annealed last. The tapes is very convenient to change as the loads or other info changes.

 

[wkdickinson]

I have a sticker on my boxes of 50 or 100 with date/charge/load number

I do basically the same thing for my competion rifles (6 Dasher & 6.5 CM). But I reload and shoot in "batches" (50/100) with each case spending it's entire life in the same cartridge box. I have enough cases for each load so that I don't reload any of that box until all of it has been shot.

 

[Dimner]

Like others here, I do batches. 150 cases to start with, but it gets divided into smaller groups of 50 as load development continues. I generally don't shoot one caliber enough to have more than 150 cases being used.

 

[K22]

Get a Sinclair chamber length gauge and you may be able to reduce the amount of trimming necessary by 50 to 75% even applying Sinclair's recommended safety margin.

I check the case length every reload cycle just to make sure. It only takes a few minutes. When I do trim, I record it on the cartridge. For example, Trim: 10 x 2 would indicate that I trimmed the cases after the 10th reload and it was the second trimming.

 

[rebs]

I keep brass in these in 100 case batches. Erasable Sharpie on the lid to note what they are and how many firings. They come in various sizes. Some supermarkets carry their own, cheaper brand.

View attachment 1439712

I get mine at Big Lots

 

[Dave in WI]

I bought an inexpensive label maker and use the crap out of it!

 

[JMayo]

I keep up with barrels firing not brass.
The pockets & necks will tell you for the brass.

 

[DShortt]

I didn't read every post but I anneal, resize minimally and cull the whole batch of brass once the pockets start getting loose.
Sometimes that's 10x, sometimes that's 20x or more.
I really don't worry about tracking the # of times fired exactly. I just keep my brass in 50 round batches.

 

[JJE]

I try to do it with 308 that I load on single stage. Tried doing it with 300 blackout and pistol, didn’t keep up very well. To much of a pain to segregate and wet tumble.

 

[topclass2017]

I have a 2-part system that works for me. I made up a little "form" that records rifle, caliber, brass manufacturer, times fired, and then each processing step. I segregate brass into 1-gallon ziplock bags accordingly, and stuff the form into the bag. When I load, I put a piece of blue painter's tape on the box top with load data as well as brass info including # of times fired. I leave the brass in the box until I get home and either add it to an existing bag (based on # of times fired), or start a new bag. Bags with unprocessed or in-process brass are stored in plastic totes, with it recorded on each form where it is in the process. Brass ready to load moves to separate totes, with a now complete form showing everything (and when) that was done to that batch of brass.

Like I said at the opening, it works for me

 

[David Christian]

Depends on your goals and expectations of your brass. The OCD in me batches everything. Boxes are stacked based upon reloading step. Each chambering has a different color box. Each box has X number of firings, chambering, and annealing code listed on top. Again, OCD created my process.

 

[divingin]

I allocate 200 pcs of brass for a new barrel. Each 50 rd ammo box gets an external label (masking tape) showing bullet, powder, charge, and depth. Inside of the box gets a piece of tape showing number of times fired, number of firings since annealed, and number of firings since shoulder bumped. Any single brass failures get replaced, and the problem of introducing new brass is conveniently ignored. I try to use them such that they all end up at the same number of firings at some point, when the entire 200 rd batch gets FL sized and/or annealed.

When changing barrels, the entire lot of in-use brass gets put in a Berger bullet box (appropriately marked with barrel they go with and current firing count, etc.), and goes on the shelf until that barrel is called on again.

That's more than enough of a PITA for my shooting.

 

[moajoe]

I started out trying to keep track of the number of times brass was reloaded but gave up. I started shooting 6 Dasher in 2016 and had 200 pcs of Lapua 6br norma that I fire formed. I now have about 145 pcs of that original batch that I am still loading. Barrel has about 1,500 rounds on it but still shoots .5 moa. I load 100 rounds per match and average from 65 to 80 rounds depending on the conditions and the number of sighters.

 

[BigBolt]

I just mark them O/F and check them after cleaning and shooting. Never had a problem been doing it for 40+ years. KISS method.

 

[quadracer]

Cheap label printer. Trimmed, annealed and # of times fired

 

[vonb]

Avery mailing labels printed up and stuck to the plastic cartridge box.

 

[Dimner]

I just use a mini post it note and scribble the details and throw it in the box with the brass. I tried to use labels and tidy notes, but I found that I would procrastinate on making those labels and eventually I would forget the details.. so pencil and paper for me.

 

[Ruger15151]

I shoot F-Open so I separate brass in 100 round MTM boxes. Its easy for me to manage the # of firings with this method.

I also created this label in excel. I print it on Avery labels and stick it to the inside of my ammo boxes.


with this method.