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Posted: 9/3/2009 11:07:18 AM EDT
| So I'm just getting into reloading and purchased some new brass. I bought 100 each of Win. 223 and Rem .308. The .223 only had 99 cases in it but the .308 had 101. My question is how common is it to get the incorrect number of cases in a pack? It doesn't really piss me off or anything just a little peeved that its going to throw my numbers off when I buy bullets and primers. |
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Pretty common, most are counted by weight. A good supplier will err high. A shadier one will err low.
If you consistantly have one supplier err low then stop using them unless they are willing to make up the numbers. I have the same problem with many things I order in bulk for my business. We never can get the same numbers for Fastex buckle pairs (male-female). |
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It won't screw up your count for other components. You'll likely lose a few cases while learning to use your equipment. You'll get a box of bullets with 108, or 98, and besides that, you won't likely load all of them the first time out anyway. Gunpowder charges are variable and you'll likely waste a little to spillage.
If you pursue reloading long, you'll have little boxes of a few bullets and cases left over. Occasionally I sit down to load til I run out of one component or another. Then I'm done with that load until I buy more components, if I even want to replace them. This week I bought 100 cases and a box of 100 bullets for my .22 Jet revolver. I'll load a few, then figure how I want to procede after that; I may find out that 100 cases will be all I will ever need. Plus, I'm going to an auction soon where a Contender barrel chambered for .22 Jet will be sold, and from the looks of the photos, I'm betting there will be cases and bullets there, too. |
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So I'm just getting into reloading and purchased some new brass. I bought 100 each of Win. 223 and Rem .308. The .223 only had 99 cases in it but the .308 had 101. My question is how common is it to get the incorrect number of cases in a pack? It doesn't really piss me off or anything just a little peeved that its going to throw my numbers off when I buy bullets and primers. Pretty common, actually. On the upside, as you noted, some packages will be over one instead of under one, so over time it should work out. |
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